The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02
FOR SUNDAY.
EOrsaken.

"Then all the disciples forsook him and fed"
If even Thee, the righteous and the holy,
These did forsake,
What wonder human hearts, loving as lowly,
Do sometimes break?
All stand far of i'm the dark hour of trial,
Just before sleep;
Meath the lips smile we feel the souls denial,
And turn and weep.
Thou weptst not, Lord John had Thy breast
Thou the hard cross;
Yet our weak bosoms heave like sobbing
At each light loss.
Sweet summer friends, farewenl Your flight
you've taken,
Small blame, God woti
In the lone house of death, 4 hou once forsaken
ForSake us not!
For the 915 Baptist churches of Illinois
there are only 447 pastors.
The proportion of Roman Catholics to
Protestants in Ireland Is nearly three and
half to one.
The Boston Women's Christian Temper
ance union is about to establish friendly
inn,' the first in the city.
Bishop Seghers, of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Victoria, on the Pacific coast, has
preached a sermon denouncing the free
school system of the colony.
The city of Paris owns seventy-six edifices
consecrated to religious services. Notre Dame
and the Pantheon are the property OF the
state.
The American Missionary Association of
New York, during the past twelve years has
expended upwards of So, 500 900 in educat-
ing the colored people. That society has
had from two hundred and fifty to five hun
dred teachers at work every year.
As to sudden death, never could pray to
be delivered from ii, but only TO be ready
for it. God alone. who knows our frame and
best glorify Him. Sudden death may be to
many great blessing.-Norman Macleod.
The Christian Leader scouts the idea that
Universalism is slowly dying out 1t pre-
sents statistics showing that it is slowly
gaining. The 600 societies and congregations
of 1882 have increased to $50 parishes; the
100 church edifices to 756. and the 800
preachers to 706, including licentiates and
superannuates.
The congregations of Mr.. Moody In Boston
continue TO grow, or rather the numbers
who find it impossible to gain admittance
increase. The trades noon meetings are well
sustained, the fish dealers, furniture men,
market men, grocers and others assembling
at places convenient to their trade centers.
House to house visitation has been very
thorough, the visitors meeting kind recep-
ton wherever they go.
The creation of small dioceses in the Prot
estant Episcopal church has greatly pro-
NOTED its interests. In 1867 the contribu
tons of the diocese of New York were $494,
q. in fha wi hnt ~ tbo fhra
dioceses made from it-New York, Long
Island and Albany-were $l,744,74S. In
1865 the contributions of the diocese of
Pennsylvania were $235 729; in 1872, in the
three dioceses into which it was divided,
81, ,165, ,349.
The general assembly Of the Presbyterian
church In the United States of America-as
the Northern Presbyterian church styles it
self-will meet in annual session in Chicago,
May Il. DIR. Henry j. Van Dyke, of Brook
lyn, New York, is the moderator, and will
preach the annual sermon. The southern
assembly will meet at the same time in New
Orleans, Louisiana, when DIR. B. M. Smith,
the moderator of the last assembly, will
preach the annual sermon. The overtures
for fraternity made last year by both of these
bodies have not made much progress during
the year. Indeed, they have been either ig-
nored altogether or denounced quite earn
estly. Practical fraternity must grow slow
ly rather than be resolved into being on
paper.
1t is not the best things-that is, the
things which we call best-that make men;
it is not the pleasant things; it is not the
calm experiences of life; 1t is iife's rugged
experience, its tempests. its trials. The dis
cipline of life is here good and there evil,
here trouble and there joy, here rudeness
and there smoothness-one working with
the other-and the alterations OF the one
and the other which necessitatss adaptations
to constitute that part OF the education
which makes a man a man, in distinction
from an animal, which has no education.
The successful man invariably bears marks
of the struggles which he has had to undergo
on his brow.
The Christian Union is of the opinion that
Sthe Sabbath of the past will not be the Sab
bath of the future; indeed, it will not be the
Sabbath at all; IL will be the Lords day.
and says the Christian conception of the
meaning and uses OF the day is being revo-
lutionized
Sabbath committees assemblies, eonvo-
cations can not dam it up. They might
better attempt to stop the flow OF the Mis-
sissippi with bulrushes. If the church is
wise il will study the Lords day of the fu-
tnre rather than the Sabbath of the past, the
Christian festival of the next decade rather
than the Puritan fast day of the last CEN
tury, and seek to guide the current which it
ID, happily, powerless to check. The only