The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-03

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Cesseless burdens of homely care,
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent river OF happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
We have always thought we would like to
die on the 30th OF February.
new Catholic daily, called the Evening
Post, is published in Montreal.
The Nihilists in Russia show their con-
tempt for religion by smoking cigarettes in
cathedrals and churches
Bishop Ireland's four Catholic colonies in
Minnesota are doing handsomely, and far
exceeding the most sanguine expectations.
Bishop Seymour will assume direction of
his diocese, Springfield Illinois, early in
July, and has so notified the standing COM
mittee-
The Rev. Dr. John Bowling, a prominent
Baptist minister OF New York and author of
a we'll known history OF Romanism, has be-
come insane.
The Rev. DIR. McAnally, editor of the ST.
Louis Christian Advocate, is writing COM
plete history of sthe Methodist Episcopal
church south.
tits too late in the day to question Mr..
Bryants orthodoxy. How strange it is that
the paganism of Thanatopsis was not dis
covered long ago.
The New York religious newspaper agency
has just published in pamphlet form DR..
Bellows funeral sermon in memoriam of
William Cullen Bryant
Mr.. Kimbsll last Sunday relieved the
Berkeley street church. Boston, of a S25. 900
| debt. The pastor, the Rev. w. B. Wright, is
Cincinnatian by birth.
The Baptist publication society has appli-
cations for the appointment of more Sunday
school missionaries than it can put in the
field. 1t wants cash donations.
"A little starvatl w." says Mr.. Beecher,
| sis means of grace now and then" A little
| bread often possesses more religion than a
whole sermon; at least, with the hungeriDg.
Bible distribution is diligently carried on
at the great Paris show. Every body, of
every nationality, who will receive it is
handed copy of the New Testament in his
own tongue.
| The forty hours devotion begins to-mor-
morrow morning at St. Philip de Neri's
church, the convent of the little sisters
| of the poor, and the church of our lady of
| consolation, Chestnut Hill.
The celebrated sculptor, Giulio Tadolini
| has q commission from wealthy American
4 q
| bronze. His holiness has granted the artist
four sittipgs, the result being highly !satis-
| factory likeness.
The old building long occupied by the
| First Presby terian church, of Wilmington.
has been changed into ball for the meet
Ingsof the historical society of Delaware
| and depository of documents bearing on
the history of the state.
| Tho ,o;n;star;oi un;op a. ;ts oparLarl,,
meeting next Monday, will discuss the ques-
| Ion: rs there tendency to the undue
multiplication of churches in our cities,
| towns, and villages?" The Rev. A Ritten-
house will open the discussion.
A solemn novena sin honor of the heart
| of Jesus" began in st. Joseph's church (Wil-
| ling's al;ey) on last Thursday, the feast of
Corpus Christi, and will continue through
out the octave of that holy day, ending on
next Friday with the renewol of the 'act of
conservation of the sacred heart"
Two benefced graduates OF the English
| universities are TO be admitted shortly by
| Bishop Gregg to the ministry of the refor n
| ed Episcopal church, who will begin work
| conformity in an important sea side place in
the diocese of Chichester, England.
At a church festival in a little Missouri
village the people in quest of refreshments
/
served by negro walters and an exceedingly
plain one dispensed by the prettiest girls in
the village. Honors were about even.
There are in the United States %, ,9Os Bap-
| tist churches, but only Il, 596 ministers of
tnat persuasion. Some of the churches,
however, are very small and weak ana un-
| able to support ministers. In many parts of
| the south and west several churches club
together under the care of one minister.
| Coleridse: Never yet did there exist a
| full faith in the divine word which did not
| expand the intellect while it purified the
heart; which did not multiply the aims and
| objects of the understanding while it fixed
and simplifed those of the desires and feel
ings.
| A witty Clergyman, accosted by an old ac-
/ Quaintance by the name of Coob, replied
Il don't know you, sir" my name is
| Cobb, sir," rejoined the man, who was about
| half seas over. "Ah. sir" said the minister
you have so much corn on that / did not
see the cob"
| Kohler: Much as the starry heaven with
its innumerabe worlds fills mans soul with
wonder and awe, making HIM feel his own
| llttlene. 5, yet there is something with him
| which elevates him above sun and stars,
above angels and seraphs; and this is his
| moral nature.
Last Sunday one of the best sermons was
| preached by divine who, in the midst of
bis discourse, and to illustrate apoint, struck
| asmatch in the pulpit. The effect was very
Good but one shrinks in thinking of what
the result might haye been If the match had
failed to ''go off,"
Mr.. Spurgeon says that sometimes he hears
sermons which make him feel like the poor
person who was once asked to dine with the
| squire. and who, on being requested to re-
turn thanks. did so in this fashion: 20
| Lord, we thank Thee that we don't have
| such good dinner as this every day of our
lives, for il we did we should be sure to be
| ILL.,"
The Baptist ministers of Philadelphia have
declared their opinion that women may
preach if they have the necessary gifts,
grace, education, discretion and other ac-
complishments. The application OF the
same rule to the sterner sex, tits to be feared,
would thin out some of the pulpits in the
country.