The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26


While yet unsoiled by tears,
The home that we shall hardly hnd
Through weeping, weary years,
Whose small, unsandaled feet may stray
On heights tor which we vainly pray!
IIr iEf tHr "A. James.
The pope will soon publish volume of
his own poems.
The Jewish population of the United
States is 100000. They have 152synagogues.
There is nothing that so convinces man
of the truth of religion as to see true re-
ligion in Christians s1ra ftr -
The gossips are reduced to the remark that
Beecner's new house on the Hudson is of
the Elizabethan style. s.
The Iowa CityRepublican publishes ortho-
dox sermons, delivered by johnson county
man while in an unconscious state.
There, is a religious. revival at Princeton
colleges and the good work is greatly aided
by the prevailing feeling OF the uncertainty
of life. r -ic efI roa
"Thanaiopsisn as 'fhe sweetest pagan song
that ever was sung" but thinks Watts is in
finitely superior. t..
Hackensack Republican: There is man
down in Maine who attends church merely
Maine chants, you know.
Omaha Herald: Maggie Van Cott never
grew weary of preaching in Omaha when
She stipulated for and received $50 day for
her labor of love and piety.
The Rev. Joseph Cook lectured in Chicago
or docs Death End All?p 1t might end
everything except one of Joseph's lectures.
There is no end to them.
The cost of the Moody-Sankey revival in
New Haven, Conn, was a little more than
$1,000, which was more than paid by sub
scriptions and colfecsionss
The Dunkard church in America numbers
about $4,000 members. 1t is strongest in
Pennsylvania, where there are seventy-two
churches and IA, 900 members.
Brother Klmball has a rivai in Brother
Roswell Smith, who has, by similar methods,
raised the debts of several Jersey churches.
His services are in great demand.
Two little girls were comparing progress
in catechism study. 81 have got to original
SIM" said one; ''how far have you got?"
"Oh, I'm beyond redemption said the
other.
A minister has just gone crazy from over.
work. Name. Victor Smith. Denomination.
Episcopal. Very strange, isn't 1t? Must
stock speculatlng outside.
The monks of Grottoferrata, near Frascati,
refused to entertain Father Curci on account
of his having written his famous book on
the policy of the church, but the pope gave
him lodging In the vatican.
Some men know how to utilize their
wives gift of talk. ''The wife of the Rev.
DR.. A. J. Patterson will supply the pulpit of
the Highlands Uniyersalist church during
her husbands absence In Europe"
number, according to Mr.. Barclay one of
their well known members only II, ,OO0 A
few years ago they were estimated at 1o0,-
600. In 100 there were 10000 in Great
Britain.
Joseph F. Smith, the Mormon apostle, who
preached the funeral sermon of Porter Rock
well, the DANTE chief, said the deceased had
but one fault, he would drink. Rockwell
was reputed to have committed one hundred
murders.
The New York correspondent Of the Phil.
adelphia Ledger reports that well known
church familyin the former city will soon
give $1,000 10 the fund for the erection of
the long talked of Episcopal cathedral in
New York.
Bishop Seymour, of Springfield, has been
preaching farewell sermon TO the colored
Episcopalians of New York who worship at
st. Philips church. After the service he
shook hands with many of the members as
they passed out
The Deacon Smith, of Vermont who fell
in love with widow about the time his wife
died and was very pious, and wrote very
wicked letters, has been found not guilty of
murder. He will be convicted, however, of
being a sinner with the Ui,lour
Lord 0ranmore, a rigid Protestant, refused
to remain at the Newspaper Press Fund din
ner in London because he saw Cardinal Man
ming on the left of the chairman, and he
thought that an English subject ought not to
receive rank or precedence that does not
come from the queen.
The Bible gotten out by the Smith sisters.
OF Glastonbury, Conn, must be an interest
ing work. Happy the compassionate, for
they shall be commiserated," is one of its
beatitudes, and in one of the parallels occurs
the remarkable verse: Friend, how camest
thou in hither, not having garment OF the
| nup.ial feast? And he was muzzledl'
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: 80
Lord. we thank Thee that we don't have
such a good dinner as this every day of our
lives, for II we did We should be sure to be
ILL.,"
This story has foated into our cores
pondence, and it is the best one of its kind
that has been told since the lyric one was in
vented which Barnabee interprets SO clever
"; remember going to an old fashioned.
Methodist dipping" Among those to be
washed was a maiden of some thirty sum-
mers, not to speak OF winters. She had
cork leg-anG when il say leg mean not