St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

lHe Olu leSIdmeut feflslOn is complete.
The Congregational church gets over
100000 for mission work by the will of
the late Samuel w. SWEET, of Boston.
I Cardinal Manning recently presided over
one of the four great sections of temper
ancc congress in Liverpool. England.
| No other book of the Bible is so much in
demand in India as that of Proverbs. Its
epigramatic wisdom is highly appreciated by
the Hindoos.
| At recent marriage ceremony in one of
the Providence churches the contracting par
ties were thirty minutes behind time, and
the organ pealed out 80 dear, what can
the matter bel"
The list of vacant Congregational churches
in Illinois has been reduced from seventy
to forty within the past few months, owing
to the large numbers of men who have re-
Gently come from other states and from
| England.
l. Hon. VIM. Daniel, nominee for vice presi-
denton the Prohibition ticket, is an enthusi-
astic Methodist, having joined that church at
the close of his college course He is a
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was strong Unionist during the war.
Elk. Gov. John P. st. john of Kansas, the
presidential nominee of the Prohibitionists is
an enthusiastic methodist. His mother was an
old school Baptist. The National Prohibition
convention at Pittsburg last week was almost
as much religious as political gathering
Bishop Ryle of Liverpool breaches in the
open air, in the great shipbuilding yard at
| the noon intermission, and among the A.
600 carriers, with their wives and children,
and the men of the great freight stations.
having oftentimes from 1900 to 5000 in one
assembly
Poor Russia! Its day of peace and relig-
ious prosperity is very slow in its dawning.
Even in this year of our Lord 1884, the Rus
sian government forbids the distribution of
tracts for the propagation of moral and re-
| ligious truths. Count Korff, as well as Mr..
Pashkoff, who opposed such measures, have
been ordered to leave the country, within
two weeks. Their tracts have been burned.
Many know Rev. VIM. Baker as
novelist and magazinist, who will be glad to
see this bit Of devout verse from his gifted
| pen:
| 81 know how very nearly
/ draw unto those realms,
| know that it is merely
A film which overwhelms
These eyes from rapturous seeing,
These ears from rapturous sound,
This self from God-like being,
| This life from broken bound,
Melt, o thou film flake, faster,
Rend. thou thin gauze, in two,
| Eternal Heaven. oermaster,
Break in effulgence thro!
o sacred day, o'erfoy thee,
Rush, Sabbaths into one
That earth and heaven may know the
Eternal rest begun.'
Good DR.. Prime, speaking of the foIIy of
half dozen churches in villages where there
is no room or support for more than one,
says:
81 could work heartily and hopefully in
almost any evangelical church where the
whole Bible was received as the word of God
would not sit under the preaching of
minister who tried to prove that Moses was
not the author of the Pentateucb. or that
Jesus Christ did not know what is meant by
the law and the prophets; would not sit
at the feet of any man who denies the true
andproper divinity of the Lord who bought
me with his own blood. / would not have
for spiritual teacher one who says it shall
be well with the wicked who die In their sins
OF that one SO dying will have another op-
portunity for repentance and faith when the
door is shut. But with any faithful servant
of God, who teaches pure gospel, 1 could
work and enjoy, whatever the name by
which he and bis church were called.''
The detection of Prof. James Woodrow.
Phi. D., D. D., L. D., of the Columbia, s.
C. theological seminary of the Southern
Presbyterian church, is still the regnant
theme of discussion in all the Presbyterian
papers, north and south. Prof. Woodrow
has gone over to the evolutionists and pro-
pounds TO his young thsologues such inquir-
les IS this: "What difference can It make