St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07

ANON:
For right is right, since God is God
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.
SHAKESPEARE:
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to
mend;
Eternity mourns that. IT'S an i'll cure
For LIES worst ills. to have no time to fee
them.
THOMAS + uLLER: The affections, like the
conscience, are rather to be led than drawn,
and tits to be feared that they who marry
where they do not love will love where they
do not marry.
Hon. DANIEL w. VOORHEES,: Liberty!
thou star of promise, lowering over the
cradle where the Republic was born, and still
burning on the front of the sky, we will fol-
low thee wherever thy orbit may lead.
| Thirty-four thousand converts are reported
as the result of Moody and Sankey's work
during the winter and spring in London.
The Moravians, who in their three home
provinces number 80, al souls, number in
their foreign and Bohemian missions 1885,
900.
| The Rev. A. j. Sage, d. D., of Hartford,
| Conn: has beer elected to the chair of
Homiletics in the Baptist theological semin-
airy at Chicago.
| The semi-centennial anniversary of the
Theological Seminary of the Reformed church
at New Brunswick, n. j., is to be observed
October % and 80.
Mr.. Stevenson Blackwood, of London,
says preachers in England have learnt from
Mr. Moody not to be ashamed of preaching
their old sermons again and again.
According to Boston writer the old Chan
ming Unitarian church makes the humiliating
confession that it has not had an accession
to its COMMITMENTS in thirteen years.
| Cannon Wilberforcc has had Aptistrv
putinto his new church at Southampton,
Eng, because, he says, the prayer book rec
ognizes immersion as proper mode of bap-
tism.
1t is announced that a committee of the
Free Italian church of which Father Gavazzi
is a representative, proposes to approach the
Waldenses on the subject of union of the
| churches.
The English Methods have for some time
|
vacation, and now ''Poor Clergy Holiday
FUND.- has been started in the Church Of
England.
The Rev. DR.. Crooks is preparing mem
orial volume, containing a sketch of the life
of Bishop Simpson, with a number of his
best sermons and addresses. 1t will soon be
published.
The erection of the statue of Luther in
Washington City more than anything else
seems to have moved number of Presby.
terians to make an effort to erect statue to
John Calvin.
| ''The Christian Year''was refused by the
| publisher, Joseph Parker, at 800 for the
copyright. 1t proved great success, snd in
his lifetime Keble received some $40, 600 for
his share of the profits, he published it at his
own risk.
The new Lord Petre, who at the autumn
session of Parliament will take the seat va
Gated by his father who recently died, will, 1T
is said, be the first Catholic priest who has sat
in the British house of Lords since the Re-
formation.
Although DR.. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, has
been dead year, no successor has yet been
appointed by the church council in that col
ony. 1t is now reported that Sir Gecsge Will
liam Cox, the historical scholar, is to be Of
fered the bishopric. s,of
General Booth, the head of the Saliva
ton Army in England, contemplates the
formation of a Salvation navy. Three war
vessels are to be purchased. 1t is suggested
that Mr.. Booth will be Admiral as well as
General when his navy is under way.
The church of which the Rev. c. H. Spur
geon, London, is pastor, dates from the year
A. D. 1862. The record of its early history
is imperfect. The members appear not to
have had any regular place Of worship, but
met from time to time in private houses.
The Prince of Wales, assisted by cabinet
ministers, a cardinal and an archbishop,
presided at the great jubilee meeting held in
London this month, in commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the enactme mt of
thu law which abolished slavery in the Brit
ish dominions.
Benjamin Leda, Jew OF Altoona, when
dying, gave eighty thousand marks to erect
houses for poor families, to be rent free. 1t
was conditioned that one-third of the bene-
fctaries should be Jews and twothirds Chris
tians. 1t is sign that the wall of partition
is being broken down.
A cremation furnace has recently been dis.
covered near Lincoln Cathedral, England,
near which was large quantity of charcoal.
and underneath a sarcophagus, in which
were ten urns containing ashes of partly
consumed bones, a memorial of the time an
old Roman city existed there.
The old Catholic papers of Germany-the
TcstScher NertHr and the At Rattolischer Bote
contain formal call, authoratively put
forth by DR.. Won Shut president Of the Sew
enth Congress), for the Catholic Congress
of the German Empire, which is to be held
at Krefleld, in th Prussian Rhen-
ish Province, on August go, 80 and 81.
The pope has conferred the Bishopric Of
Ferns on the Rev James Browne, parish
priest, and native of that diocese. 1t is stated
that Cardinal Lavigerie has asked the pope
to erect his present apostolic vicarate into
bishopric of Carthage. The French govern
ment is said to be favorable TO the plan, pro-
vided it can obtain funds for the endowment
of the new diocese.
The Examiner indorses the proposition Of
Mr.. Justice Stephen that 'sIf Christian theo-
logy were exploded. Christian charity would
not survive it, 'sChristian theology" it
argues, lis to Christian charity what the
spirit is to the body and the body without the
spirit is not moro dead than Christian charity
would become If the world should lose faith
| in the distinctive teachings of Christi