The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-05

every one Ieel- OlQ3.. Let the WORDS Oh LIT.
Murray encourage those who are really
CID: 'God never throws a man aside be-
cause he is old. The business world may
90 this, the church is sometimes guilty
;'of so doing, but God has planned to
keep us busy to the end,'' ~
%
Today in the Protestant churches is
Eighth Sunday after Trinity and in the
Catholic church the Tenth Sunday after
Pentecost.
Pilgrims Progress" has been trans
lated into Chinese, and illustrations are
by native artists. Christian is made to
appear in q long pig tail, and the dun
geon of the Giant Despair is the COM
mon wooden cage of Chinese criminals.
The Bible speaks OF asking for bread
and getting a stone, and it is frequently
quoted as an instance of not getting what
was asked for; but, after all, it is not
as bad as going to Cape Nome for gold
and getting the smallpox or typhoid fe-
yer.
a hundred years ago there were about
fifty versions of the Scriptures We will
pass the threshold of the new century
with over 400 versions of the Bible on,
some portion thereof
The president of the Western Reserve
university selected twenty-five passages
from Tennysons works containing Bible
illusions, and asked a class of forty
three men and fifty-one women to write
answersszsto them, and only one person
was able to give correct replies to all.
o.
Messrs. Mckinley and Bryan are faith
full churchgoers, and today, rain or
shine, hot oracold, will find them in their
DeWs. aS,.I
There Is universally and vitality to
the social question The cultivated
classes are becoming interested, and it is
no longer the working classes alone
which are giving thought and attention
to it. The apparently irreconcilable bar
Tiers between the two are coming down.
There IS a proneness to violence in the
United States not equaled in any other
of the older civilized countries We en-
JOY the prezeminence of showing more
murders in proportion to population than
any other of the great nations. War
teaches cheapness of life, and the free
sale and carrying Of weapons, not allow
ed in other countries, are incentives to
murder and shooting scrapes.
Bishop Coleman, of the Episcopal do
CeSe OF DeIaWare, mas originated a project
to introduce church flag, about which
all denomina tons can rally and be slim
ulated to united effort. His church has
already accepted a design after the style
Of the American flag, thirteen stripes.
with field in the center containing the
Maltece cross.
There are in the United States forty
four different Catholic brotherhoods. with
a membership of over 5000, and 118 con-
gregations OF nuns, numbering about &c.
600 women. Under the care of these or
ders are ITS colleges, 662 academies, SSH
schools. with 900 pupils; 251 orphan
asylums, with IS, 800 children, and ST char
liable Institutions
Hypnotism is as old as the human
race. Although the name is of recent ori-
gin, it is no. other than magnetism. Sleep
or unc9nsciQusness induced by artificial
means is hNpnotism or animal magnetism
It is som times self-imposed. as seen in
the South in the negro religious meetings.
when men and women become insensible
with what they call the power"
Lovers o * Bonnie Brier Bush" litera-
ture Will be. interested in the following
rendering of the Lords prayer in broad
Scotch dlialect: Father O. US a bldin
Aboon. dsTBB name be hole! Lat Thy
reign begin! Lat Thy will be done. bath
in Yirth and Heevin! Gle US ill1a day DOR