The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-09

with sads fhesee HPs
And In the liquid azure sky
The mottled clouds entranced lie
Along the margin OF the stream
The WILLOWS stlvery branches geam,
And from the dark soil round their roots
The blue-veined, trembling violet shoots.
Harki that sweet carol! With delight
We leave the sitting room;
The little blue bird meets our sight
Spring, glorious spring, has comet
Ine south winds balm Is in the air,
The melting snow-wreaths everywhere
Are leaping up In showers
And Natute, in her Frightening looks,
Tells that her flowers and leaves and brooks,
And birds viii soon be ours.
The Presbyterians of England number 531,-
600.
Bishop Smith, of the Protestant Episcopal
church of Kentucky, has retired from the
pulpit He is SO years old.
One of the largest Sunday schools in the
world is in Aintab, in India The number
of pupils amounts to 1,s00.
The Rev. w. H. H. Murray, of Boston.
says: IF you want to hear a minister's
faults get another minister to talk about
him.
Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, the new
bishop of Peoria, Illinois, is the youngest
member of the American Roman Catholic
hierarchy.
The oldest auxiliary to the American BIZ
BILE society is the Dutchess County Female
Bible society, founded In January, 1914, two
years before the establishment of the parent
society.
So excellent touch of modesty-A Pres
byterian minister in the Hebrides invokes
the Divine blessing upon these isles and
upon the adjacent islands of Great Britain
and Ireland"
The Catholics stand to the Protestants in
Ireland as four to one. There are 4, $50 S67
of the former and ,260, $40 of the latter.
OF the Protestants the Episcopalisns are the
most numerous body, having 667, 1893.
The railway branch of the Young Mems
Christian association of Columbus Ohio,
have opened a reading room in the depot for
railroad men. The room is supplied with
81 papers, and in six months has registered
1912 readers. A beginning has been made
in collecting library.
The Methodist Episcopal church in Boston
was organized by the Rev. Jesse Lee in 1871.
There are now in the New England states
125, 900 members of the church, 500 church
buildings, 100 ministers. There are said to
be 130, 900 Sabbath-sc scholars enjoying
cluding 100000 books.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church is a
denomination not much heard of in the east,
its field lying principally in Kentucky and
Tennessee. 1t consists OF ,239 ministers
and about 1000 congregations, with 100000
communicates. Its church property is
valued at S12, $50, 900, and it contributed last
year $350,000 to benevolent objects.
The Presbyterian ministers association of
Chicago has been discussing the amusement
question but the differences of opinion are
so great that no harmonious action seems
possible. Some of the members strongly
condemn all theaters billiard rooms, race
courses ard ball rooms Others advocate in
diligence at all those places, when the sur
roundings are not wicked.
Mr. Gladstone's protest against written
sermons has revived an old topic in England.
The supply and demand for sermons be-
tween unliterary clergymen and facile wri
ters does not decrease. A popular clergy
man, who recently found himself preaching
his old sermons in the same place too often,
soon disposed of them to a customer at a
high figure He has admitted that for years
he has written his discourses in duplicate
and sold one copy a week in London at
prices which about doubled his salary.
The arrangements for the great spring re-
ligious conventions begin to be announced.
The National temperance society will hold
its twelfth anniversary at Association hall,
Philadelphia, May Is. A preliminary ami
versary meeting will be held in the Church
of the Convent, New York, May s. The
Northern and Southern Presbyterian assem-
bles will meet on May IL, the one in Chi
cago the other in New Orleans. The Bap-
tist anniversaries will be held in Providence,
the Missionary Union on May % and %, the
Educational Commission on the 23d, the
Home missionary society on the oath and
the Publication society on the 25th. The
bishops OF the Southern Methodist Episco-
pal church meet in Nashville on May 2, the
book committee on May and the board of
missions on May 4.
At the Chicago Methodist preachers meet
ing on Monday last the Rev. Mr. Harrison,
of the Southern Methodist church, made an
address on the relations of the north and
the south, which was listened to with great
interest. He said in closing: ST want to as
sure you that there is love and charity and
prejudice among nay people, and l suppose
that there is prejudice amcng yoa- am
evenly balanced myself, and would fall to
either side without any trouble" A COM
nittee of preachers was appointed 10 procure
a place where Mr. Harrison could deliver a
public address. t.st. -..i., 4
OF the proposed change in the term OF the
ministry in the Methodist church, started in
Boston last week, the Church Union says:
THE subject Of the settlement OF Methodist
ministers for a longer term than three years,
is agitsting that body at the present time.
In our judgment 1t would be great mistake
IL the ministers could su rceed in so changing
the economy of the church as to extend the