St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-20
RELIGIOUS MENTION.

A colored Salvation army has just been or
ganized in Charlotte, S. C.
Bishop Simpson has been confined to his
house in Philadelphia by sickness.
The First Baptist church at Boston has re-
Gently paid off an Indebtedness of $4,000.
The Soudan is the Ethiopia of the bible,
precisely, according to an English author
ity.
The Florida Methodist south conference
raised recently 81, 900 for the mission at
Havana, Cuba.
The erection of the new Catholic church Of
st. Charles Borromeo, in Baltimore, has been
commenced.
Rev. Thomas Harrison, the boy preacher,
is still at st. Louis, and his converts are said
to exceed 1000
Queen Victoria once suggested to her
Chaplain that he make his prayers not more
than three minutes long.
Rev. E. Payson Hammond, the evangelist,
is holding meeting at Hornellsville, n. y,
and has made about $50 converts.
A copy of Elliot's translation of the Bible
in the Indian language, published in 1855,
sold in New York recently for $780,
At Gloucester, England, a new Episcopal
church has been erected as a memorial to
Robert Raikes, of Sunday school fame.
Rev. DR.. Galloway, of the New Orleans
Christian 4dgocate, has been appointed del
egate to the Evangelical Alliance which will
meet at Stockholm.
Bishop Doane, Of Albany, has licensed the
| Quackeress Sarah Smally to read and ex-
plain the Scriptures Sin such parishes as she
is invited to teach in by the rectors."
An old bible brings good deal more than
new one at book auction. Few bibles get
to looking worn, and this makes really old
and well-thumbed specimens rarity.
| e The ChUrcbnaan thinks a genuine brio
a-brac craze in the Lords honor is threatened
and instances a $50 900 ceiling in a church
devoid of even hint at sacred things.
A vermont paper, titled the Landn.ar&, in
forms its readers, in a burst of indignant
righteousness, that no lady or gentleman,
however costly or fashionable their raiment
will sit in church and eat peanuts.
| A new Baptist church has been completed
Salt Lake City, and a layman of that de-
nomination has made himself responsible
for the support of the pastor, Rev. DR.. II. G..
! Dewitt the well-known evangelist.
The collection in New York on hospital
Sunday amounted to S13, 900 in the Episcopal
churches, Sc, 700 in the Presbyterian, and
81, 1876 in the Methodist CAST year but $3.50,
making a total of s27, 900, which outsiders
increased to s32, SO3.
A religious paper says: ''Few things tend
more surely to keep people from church than
superficial, pointless preaching" and adds,
''any man who is given to careless prepara-
ton for the pulpit may profit by carefully
bordering this caustic but true remark of a
very successful bishop: ''The sermon which
has cost little is worth just what it cost"
Thse ervices of the Rev. w. A. Kincaid,
a. NJ, of Pittsburg, have been secured as an
assistant to DR.. DePuy in the editorial man
agement of the Duty Christian Advocate, which
is to be issued by the New York book agents
during the approaching session of the Metho-
dist Episcopal general conference in Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Kincad held similar posi-
ton during the general conferences of 1872,
1879 and 1880
A religious paper of Baltimore notices
report in a Washington morning paper, in
which an essayist is made to say, as to Sun
day schools, ''the object most generally in
view is to add names to the Sunday school reg
lister instead otto the Army of Lambs. " when
he said ''to the list recorded in the Lambs
Book of Life" The paper suggests ''that, as
aman of most marvelously inventive genius,
this reporter have the name ARMY of Lamb IS
copyrighted, and demand royalty from Sun
day schools for its use. There are many who
prefer some other name to that of Sunday
school, Perhaps Army of Lambs would
suit some of that class.''
Rev. DR.. J. B. Mccullough, of Philadel-
phia who is one ofthe delegates to the gem
eral conference of the NJ. E. church, and
was a member of the general conference OF
1872, expresses his qualification at his cleo
ton, which he regards as an expression OF
appreciation of past services, and states that
he was, in the conference of 1872 buried
with the committee to investigate the alleged
frauds in the New York book concerns
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the revelations it made of the designs of in
terested parties to break up the publishing
interests Of our church that he has never
been able scarcely to think of that conference
without conscious sense of indignation
On a recent Sunday evening a Waterbury
minister astonished his congregation when
the fire-alarm rang by saying he chopped the
gentlemen would not disturb the meeting by
going to the fire, as there would be greater
fire some time, which they would want to get
away from"
A racy story, is told of an old lady who re-
fused to be comforted by her PASTORS as
surance that when he left she would have {
better pastor as his successor. 'sNa, ma,
she said 81 have seen fourteen changes il
the ministers since | attended the kirk, ant
i every ane has been waur than anither."