Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
IMPIETIES.

An English clergyman was arrested re-
Gently IN London, charged with having
knocked pieces off the credence table in
Westminster Abbey. He wanted them as
relics.
The Salvation army has a dangerous rival
in the person of a Scandinavian woman who
has been leading a religious revival at Men
ominee, Mich, for a month past. Her preach
ing has driven eight persons insane.
An evangelist is travelling through Indiana
proclaiming that the world will come to an
end this year. If this will only prevent the
Indiana democrats from keeping ~convictS in
their city councils it will do some good.
Two young men of Racine, Wis, locked
the door of the Methodist church in that
city, during the services, and it became nee
essary for a deacon to climb through a win
dow and unlock the door before the congre-
cation could be released.
Among Philadelphia's latest sensations is
the arrest of three very good young fellows
quite the type of the Sunday school library
hero-for stealing the watches of their fel-
lows at the gymnasium of the Young Mems
Christian association.
Having disposed of the women question,
the Methodist conference has another puz-
zler. A Chinaman asks whether converted
heathens, having more than one wife can re-
tain their wives and remain good Methodists.
Such conduct might effect a Methodist's
standing in New England.
a negro preacher addressed his flock with
EI'tll 'li obll' ou VIC lblSI VI mn uNlSo
ms follows: my beloved friends, de great
est of all miracles was bout de loaves and de
fishes. Dere was five thousand loaves and
two thousand fishes, and de twelve 'poStles
had to eat dem all. De miracle is dey didn't
bustl'
If these Methodist ministers who want to
keep the women out of their conference in
New York were also to exclude the fair sex
from their church meetings, what would be-
come of their strawberry f~estivals And
how many VOInp man UlulI listen tn their
sermons! Brethren, without women church
service would fall into in-us de.
Parson Cushionpounder-I noticed that
Brother Blacksheep slept through the en-
encouraglngly-O, well, that's Blacksheep.
He isn't afraid of anything. / knew him in
the army, and ! saw him lie down and sleep
under the guns at Vicksburg. He'd sleep If
you hollered ten times louder'n you do.
A Cuisines MAN. praises a New York
daily for its new departure of putting a text
of scripture at the head of a column each
day. He says it supplies a deep want, felt
away down IN the heart" The inference is
that the business Man. can find time to
read only one verse of scripture a day, and
doesn't W a bible.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has
respjted William Hopkins, who was to have
been hanged in Rabun county to-day. Hop
kins and his brother stoned a stranger to
death because he came to church wearing "a
billed shirt and store clothes" When Hop
kins asked his father a few days since to
come and see him hanged, the old man ex-
pressed a willingness to do 80 if the ground
should happen to be too wet to plough.
According to the Baptist, an offer was re-
Gently received from a married man who
wished to engage in mission work. The gem
tleman has a small family of fourteen"
and he expressed his willingness to proceed
to China and TO leave his family behind him,
''for a large family he found u great hinder
ance to grace.'' A family of fourteen is a
sides grace. The cheerfulness with which
this maj proposed to turn his back on his
wife and children is an eloquent commentary
on his fitness to preach the gospel TO the
heather.