The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Four-fifths of the audiences at the Moody
and Sankey meetings in Boston were wo-
men.
Mr.. Spurgeon is again suffering from ill
health He has been compelled lately to
give up several preaching engagements.
A Baptist minister of Charleston, Massa-
chusetts, about to leave for the west, was
rendered dinner by the neighboring Catho-
lie clergymen.
1t was the late DR.. Taylor Lewis who aptly
characterized Matthew Arnold as shat man
in England who tries to ride high church,
broad church and infidelity all together"
The general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church, at its late meeting in Spar
Ia, Illinois, decided against permitting the
use of musical instruments in public wor-
ship.
In his address to the Scotch pilgrims to
Rome, the pope expressed the purpose OF re-
establishing the Catholic hierarchy in Scot
land. Since 1897 there have been three
Scotch yicarates, the eastern, northern and
western.
Bishop Andrews, who has been making a
tour of the world, inspecting the Methodist
Episcopal foreign missions expects to en-
bark for America on the 18th of July. The
last two months of his stay abroad will be
spent in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
The revival in Seneca Falls. New York, be-
gan under the preaching of the Rev. Z. p
Hammond on the 18th of April. He con-
tinued there for three weeks, and after he
left the work begun still went on, and has
been kept up to the present time. Over ESQ
persons have professed conversion.
Ebers, the well known German Egyptolo-
gist, gives different explanation of the
name of Moses than that commonly re-
ceived. He says that instead of being de-
rived from two words which signify rescued
from the water" it is the very common
Egyptian word mes or mesu, meaning
"child" or hoy"
The managers of the Women's Christian
Temperance union of Philadelphia have
opened home for incorporate women of
the upper and middle classes The discip-
line of the home will be Christian The best
medical attendance will be provided. The
home is for a class of women for whom other
reformatory institutions would be wholly
unsuitable.
"How do you know, with certainty, the
truth of your religion?' said an inquirer to
humble but faithful disciple. ''Just as
know the sun shines" replied the other
because / see its light and feel it's heat
Add so there are thousands, competent and
faithful witnesses who know from their own
experience the truth of Christianity because
they have felt in their own hearts and lives
its transforming and comforting and sus-
tanning power.
Missionaries in the northeastern provinces
of China give painful accounts of the famine
prevailing there. The struggle for existence
is very severe. The people devour potato
stalks bark of trees, turniD leaves or what
ever can be eaten. In some towns. during
the cold weather, large pits have been dug,
in which crowds huddle to keep warm.
Chingchow has four such pits; in one of them
$40 persons were packed. As fast as the
dead bodies were removed from it there
would be a struggle for the vacant places.
The Jews have l5Z synagogues In this
country, of which New York has SO, and
Maine, the next larger number, %. In
Pennsylvania there are IA, in Illinois 8, and
Z each in California, Ohio and Vermont.
The board of Jewish delegates reports that it
has received statistical returns from ia con-
gregations and so societies, from which
partial data it appears there is Jewish
population in the Union of 1898 The
total Jewish population in the country the
board estimates at $50 900, of whom so, GOO
are in New York city. There are in all 341
congregations, with property valued at So
Sg7 400