The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-30
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS sENHMBNT rs

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMBN rs.
The wonder is, not that men walk by
faith, but how they can ever think that they
walk without faith.
The tears of one truly repentant soul are
dearer to God than the services of thou
sand bypocr teal Pharisees.
The love OF the heart is not satisfied with
the objecfs of human affection, bus yearns
for something permanent, something eter-
nal.
The apparent tendency Of the weird TO
get out OF order is but another evidences of
Gods order, as by disorder We learn what
order is.
Too many young men look ost upon life
as il, after all, might makes right. This phil
osophy leaves God out altogether. Political
economy, if nothing else, will teaoh thEt OK
pediency is the worst of all grounds; that
honesty prac ed as policy is the lowest and
most groveling OF all things.
The work Of the Bible reviseTs On the New
Testament has now been in progress five
years, and will occupy five years lOnger.
The four Gospels have been completely re
vise0, except two disputed poiLts vet 60 be
decided. The work on the Book of Aots IS
nearly finished. The number of reVissfs is
twenty, and their monthly sessions continue
for week during ten months OF the year.
Whether the new Bible will be published in
parts, in advance of completion, has nei set
been determined.
The deepest regret that the WORLDLY man
has is that he has never tried as hard so be
good rs be has to be great; that he never has
expended as much strength in trying TO raise
himself up as he has in the endeavor
10 push himself forward. We be-
-
form our duties Christians, not IN the
cold sense Of the word, but with heart fall
of love for all, to overcome sinful passions
and to shun the cause of sin, no matter what
the cost or sacrifice may be. There is no
falser theory of determining religiOus.duties
than by counting the cost.
No sceptic shall ever persuade me thar
there it not something in the soul moEo Wig
erous TO endure than New England hdm-
lock or California pine. Nobility Of pur-
pose always suggests to you Immortality.
When the noble and the pure and the good
vanish We cannot believe that they go from
". Thsir virtue inspires in Us the sith we
need 10 comfort us. We may imagine tie
extinction OF a vegetable organization, per
baps, bu. that the flower of kindness and
courtesy should vanish forever is hard, ard
for me, impossible to believe.-Dr. Bartoi.
When a scientist ove.leaps the donsin OF
mis- proper investigation, and attempts 10
blow the Rock OF Ages into ten thousand
atoms, say to him. L have found in my
own experience and lie the book to no true.
Il teaches me to befri5nd the .riendless as
no other philosophy could, and calms me as
the words of our Saviour calmed the
troubled sea; and having settled it as "a fact
thst Christ has spoken, / make that faot the
background of my life, and fight adversely
and trouble with satisfaction and SUCCESS
which the slightest doubt would Destroy
DR.. Hamilton.
The New York Tribune says: Il is little
singular that Mortified, the home ct MIR.
Moody, should be the scene of the first de-
monstration within the church against the
dOctrinal basis of his method of
evangelstie work. The Unitafisns, il
seems, have taken offense at something
that has been said or done ia these NORTH
field meetings, and the pastor OF the village
church of that denomination preached on
Sunday last a sermon embOdying q series Of
vigorous assaults on orthodoxy. Tnsre
we're four counts in his Indictment, namely:
That orthodoxy is anti-Christian, that it Ia
unreasonable, that Il Is essentially immoral
in the tendency of its creed, and that It's
present place in the church is usurpatiOn.
Mr.. Moody, without referring to the dis
course of his Unitarian brother ana without
becoming controversial, promptly took up
the gauntlet thus thrown down, and the
sermon so elected, presenting Ehs Trinita-
rfan view OF Christ with bold and original
illustrations, seems TO have been one OF his
most effective efforts in revival work at
Mortified. Each OF the speakers has ssen
stndiously ooservant OF the dictates OF
Christian courtesy, but the events OF last
sunday arc very 81 nificant and may have :.
marked effect upon the wOrk.ot the revival
lists in New England.
In a private letter which we yesterday had