The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-21
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bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong forgtves;
Yet noble is the one forgiven. -
Who bears that burden well anc lives.
1t may be hard to gain, and still
To keep iowly, steadtaSt heart;
harder and a truer part.
or a deserved and pure success; =
He who knows how 20 fall, has won
A crown whose lustre is not less. 'aa l.
Great may he be who can command
And rule with just and tender sway; 1i
Yet is diviner wisdom taught fra.r fal n
Better by him who can obey. , r.l...
Blessed are those who die for God. a.cs
And earn the martyrs crown of light; 81
Yet he who lives for God may be U 80.
greater conquerer in mis- sight.
Cardinal Manning has given notice to his
clergy that no music taken or adapted from
the theater, the opera or concerts, or which
has become familiar through Secular usage,
shall be sung at mass or benediction or used
as voluntaries or interludes, and that the
music used shall be as congregational as
possible. He has also banshed ladies from
bis choirs so thoroughly that not female
voice is heard in any of the churches under
his jurisdiction.
Why do you preach the Gospel? Is it be-
cause you have sense OF the sinners dan
ger? or because you love the Gospel2 or be-
cause you feel a cOnstraining sense OF Gods
love and pity? Or again, is it because you
find the pulpit an appropriate field for the
display of your talents, or a sphere for the
exercise of your ambition? Do you preach
for ease or gain? Have you felt the burden
of souls on you, and been constraind, with
st. Paul, to cry, "Woe is me If / preach not
the Gospel? a.a0na
The religious papers are discussing the
has to he ct
the minister so pronounce it that he includes
himself in its prayer. A great many minis
tiers say THE Lord be with YOU" when they
ought to saw The Lord be with u.s." We
are all travelling together and what one wants
all want. There is larger matter in con-
nection with worship which ought to be crit
icised to the hilt of the sword. 1t is the hab-
it of getting ready to go out of church while
the benediction is being uttered. One man
puts on his coat, another fumbles after his
hat, and still another stands in the aisle in
as great eagerness as though the word
-'amen" were the equivalent of the word
41go." 1t is a painful thing to bolt ones
food, but to bolt ones religion and then bolt
for the door is neither just to ones self nor
decoroHs toward the offices of religion.
The effectiveness of your ministrations
will depend greatly on the purpose with
which they are delivered. The arrow will
not go beyond the point for which the bow
results OF our labor will not transcend our
intention. If our aim be low, we shall have
our reward in kind. To make the life of a
minister grand, there must be an exalted aim
and ceaseless devotion of all his powers to
secure its advantages. 1t is not the field you
occupy that will make your life grand; it is
the spirit and purpose with which you do
your work. The final ''well DONE will
come to many a minister in humble spheres,
while Others in larger or more exalted places
may be found wanting in the great day. The
possibility of success is in your own hands.
Place it in the hands of God; faithfulness is
in yours
The bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has
been delivering this week series of thought
full addresses on the prevalent unbelief of
the day, in which he describes that unbelief
is rather a vague and driftless tendency than
a fixed state of mind; nay, the unbelievers,
he says, have so completely succeeded in
suspending their judgment that they hardly
believe even in their own unbelief. He
traces this condition OF things chiefly to
three causes-to the impression produced by
the historical criticism of modern times of
the vast uncertainty attending all ancient
history, and especially all history involving
stories OF miracles; to the advance of scien-
tifc notions which seem to dispense with
the creative energy of God; and to the new
intensity with which the enigmas of life,
the moral and metaphysical difficulties
involved in the origin of evil, are urged
upon the Imagination of all of US.
The pope now leans rather heavily upon
his stick, and has lost to great extent the
nobly erect carriage which distinguished
him but very few years ago. His voice,
too, is weaker, and his articulation less dis
tnct But his eye is yet wonderfully bright
and keen, and his mobile features change
with every variation of thought. His mem
DRY, too, is as tenacious as ever An
Englishman who called upon him recently
says that the venerable man remembered on
what subjects he had talked to his visitor
five years before, and glided from Italian
into French and from French into Italian,
Just as he did then. and his whole face
frightened when his lips framed, as of old,
the ready mot, in which he has never in his
sorest trials been known to fail The acute
ness of his questions as to affairs in the east
proved how strong is the interest he still
takes in questions of the day, and his jokes
about the conference and especially about
the sultan, showed that beneath the jocular
surface there lurked substratum of shrewd
observation.
Cold and hunger and physical suffering
are the worst of all bearable ills for animals.
But men and women are, or ought to be,
something more than animals, Therefore
that which keeps them out of their higher
birthright Of manhood and womanhood is
unspeakably worse than any merely nervous
thrill of pain. have repeatedly reminded
you that there is no civilization without
money. The. imperious demand of the
animal appetites must first be met.
And until these are met and some
thing plus-over and above-remains, the
higher nature has no chance to be heard
Thus, among those ground down by the ex-
tremes OF poverty there is no means for
feeding the higher hunger of the mind;
there is absolutely no soil in which mental
growth can take root. No money for
schools, no money for books, no money for
lectures And, since it is all they can do to