Wichita eagle., 1889-04-12
IN CHURCH CIRCLES.

a CLERGYMAN has been caught making
clippings from books ID the reading groom of
the British Museum.
Mrs. LELAND STANFORD asrecently pre-
scented a fine memorial chapel TO Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, San Francisco.
A MINNESOTA clergyman was1announced
TO preach few Sundays ago on The Indu-
ence of Mans Ideas of God on their Liver"
Mss CARRIE J. BARTLETT is the popular
paster Of the Unitarian church at Sioux Falls,
l.. T., and through her labors an elegant
stone church has just been built.
Twas st. Paul dupel" asked Rev. Jo-
seph Cook in recent lecture. And Bos-
ton newspaper allowed him TO appear in
type as asking: " Was St Paul a dude2''
Rev THOMAS CHAMPNEss has now about
fifty lay evangelists at work in the villages
Of England supported by the sale of his
publication, Joyful -lsans, and the co1tribu-
tons of friends
Mr.. SURGEONS quarrel with the Baptist
Union, of London, has assumed a shape
that puts the great preacher on one side
and the entire Baptist communion Of the
metropolis on the other.
A YOUNG man who Wore corduroys TO a
fashionable church IN Hampshire, Eng, has
won damage suit for election. The wor-
shippers said that they were distracted
from pious meditation by his unseemly
presence.
CoTToN MATTER, according to the essayist
at the Boston ministers meeting recently,
preached at his own installation a sermon
lasted an hour and half, having prefacng
it with a prayer whose duration was an
hour and a quarter.
WHEN Rev. Anna II Shaw was giving a
temperance lecture at Ludington, Mich,
the whisky men set fire TO the hall, which
had at the time seven hundred people in it.
The audience escaped, but the meeting was
effectually broken up.
AN InQuiring New Yorker wrote a promi-
nent clergyman asking him to name his
favorite book. The clergyman replied:
Shakespeare" He then wrote a promi-
nent actor asking him the same question
The actor answered: The Bible''
REUBEN DALEY, editor of the Jefferson
vile (lnd.D Neics, heretofore q noted infidel
of that region. has united with the Presby-
terrain church. Mr.. Daley was so radical
in his views that he would not permit the
name of God to be capitalized in his paper.
REV Mr.. MECH, Of Christ Episcopal
Church, Allegheny City, resigned because
he had overheard the remark Of lady
member Of the congregation 10 the effect
that he was dead weight, and that the con-
gregation was not progressing as ii should
THERE viii be divided among the super
animated preachers and widows and or
phans of preachers of the Methodist Epis-
copal church next year 100000 out of the
profits Of the Methodist Book Concern.
The Book Concern viii be q century old in
1880
REV. E. WALPoLE WARREN, Of the Church
OF the Holy Trinity, in New York, at late
meeting Of the Baptist Social Union made a
bitter attack upon Henry Irving and
Faust" characterizing the play as " the
most filthy, evil, immoral and dlsgraceful
thing ever put upon the dramatic stage
ARCHDEACoS FARRAR has started 4 move
mcnt for q National monument 10 the Illus
trious Admiral Blake. whose bones lie In 4
uameless grave in the churchyard OF St.
Margaret's S. Westminster-the promlscuous
and forgotten pit to which the vile spite Of
revengeful King consigned also the NOR
tai remains of Ppm, Strobe, May and CroUa-
wells venerable mother