St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.

81 think we have done about the right
thing in getting Evangelist MUNHALL
here" said an old church member the
other day. she is converting the sim
ners, and in June SAM JONES will come
back to convert the church members.
Between the two think we will have
revival that will count for sOmething."
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So far DR.. MUNHALL has impressed
the st. Paul public as being practical
man. He has common sense way of
stating his propositions that carry con-
victiOn with them tenfold more than if
his discourses were embellished with
ornate rhetoric. Another practical
method he employs is in looking after
1.-The comfort of his congregations. AS
an illustration, he gives his personal at
tention to the ventilation of the hall. 1t
he finds the atmosphere is getting
heavy in the room he will stop right in
the midst of the services to have the
windows raised for few minutes, and
will ask the congregation to stand up
and take good airing.
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Good air is wonderful help to Chris
tianity, and the wonder is that Chris
tan people do not appreciate its value
more. They build fine churches, with
upholstered pews, and put in costly Or
gans and hire high-salaried choirs,
and have eloquent preachers, and yet
with all these attractions they can't
induce worfdlings to come into the
churches. 1t is because they take SO
much pains to exclude light and air.
What little light gets into the modern
church has to strain itself through
loaded glass, and if any air gets in it
has to slip in unawares, and only tiny
little bit at time while the people are
coming in at the door. 1t is almost use
less for preacher to attempt to break
the bread of life to congregation i'm
priSOned in an airlesS dungeon. They
haven't the spirit to receive it. A man
with his lungs choek full of foul vapors
doesn't care much whether he is saved
or not. He becomes too much stupetied
to understand the necessity of saliva
ton.
JOHN WANAMAKER says Philadel-
Dhia, with it's hundred thousand young
men, could get along better without its
street railways than without its fine,
cOmmOdiOus building of the Young
Mems Christian association. He says:
mo better investment has ever been
business men than the gymnasium,
library. reading room and halls that
they have made for its young men,"
The testimony of a successful business
man like Mr.. WANAMAKER is worth
something on this subject.
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Roscoe CoNKL1NG had great MEM
DRY for verse. His favorite poems were
"Lalla Rookh'' and LADY of the Lake, I"
which he could recite without missing
line. He was fond of the OdeS OF
HORACE, and could repeat them in the
original as readily as he could 1.-THE
Psalm of Life"
There is to be twenty-dollar-a-plate
banquet in New York this week to cele-
brate Gen. GRANTS birthday. CHAUN-
CEY M. DEPEW is to preside, and will
be the principal speaker. Among the
other speakers will be Gems. JOSEPH
f.. JOHNSTON, FITZHUGH LEE, JOHN
B. GORDON, LoNGsTREET, MosBY,
MALONE, BUCKNER, and other dis
tinguished Confederate officers.
Have you a scrap book Of postage
stamps? If not, you are not in the fash
ion. Making scrap books of theater
bills is another modern craze. But the
most sensible mania for scrap collec-
tons is that which takes the form Of
collecting newspaper and magazine
articles ON some one interesting subject.
A st. Anthony hill man has cut out of
the papers everything he has read with
in the last two years concerning birds,
and it is wonderful what an amount of
OrnithOlogical knowledge that old scrap
book contains. A lower town miss has
done the same concerning shrubs and
flowers, and she has store of botani-
cal information that is worth good
deal to her. The little folks would not
only be amused but profted by this
kind Of scrap collecting.