The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

81, $50 600, which sum shall then go to his
diocese.
Jews frequently lapse into skephcism, but
are not understood to often become converts
to any form of Christian theology. The
British society for the propagation of the
Gospel among the Jews claims, however,
that since 1918 there have been over 100
brews.
The sultan lately gave a reception to a
corps of sisters of charity sent to his army
by the queen of Saxony, on which occasion
he thanked them for their courage and de-
votIon, and presented each with medal.
Coffee and sherbet were served, and Osman
Pasha presented each with $3.50.
Mr.. Stephens has been addressing Sunday
school in Augusta, Ga. he said: "Boys, if
you have aspirations for public position,
seek it only to do good to others. Have no
other object than TO confer blessings upon
your neighbors; aud, in conclusion, never
| seek to be great further than you are good"
The Jews, while in convention at Milwau-
kee week before last, made a wise PROPOSE
| ton, to the effect that large quantities of
land in the south and west should be pur-
| chased, and the children of the orphan asy-
| lums, when large enough to take care of
| themselves, should be settled there This
would be practical charity, of which more is
neeueu III tnls country.
| Tney don't take photographs in Persia be-
| cause the Mohammedan religion forbids the
reproduction of living creatures, but the
shah had his taken in France, and is going to
/ have the likeness stamped on some coins
when he goes home. Meantime he has given
away some copies to distinguished "infidel
/ dogs" of Europe, whose character can not
be damaged by photographs.
| ULo D.:at1I no-4 .o..a II Ar- NJ
! George Muller landed at Liverpool on Sun
| day, the 9TH, on their return from the United
States and were present at the usual Monday
| evening service at Bethesda chapel when
Mr.. Muller said that he had travelled more
than $4,000 miles since ne was last in Bristol,
and had preached 800 times in mora than
| 200 churches and bad written invitations to
10S places in America besides those to which
he went.
| A church in Chicago was scandalized re-
| Gently by the effort of a sewing machine
man to make the congregation an advertis-
| ing medium. Just before church time he
had number of fans placed in the pews.
These fans were of the shut up kind, and it
was not until the people began to fan them
selves that the discovery was made that each
| fan was embelished with conspicuous adj
vertisment of the sewing machine mans
| business.
Kokomo Dispatch The date for the formal
| dedication of the new Catholic church at
this place has finally been decided upon. 1t
will occur on Sunday, September 8. All
Father Mathew total abstinence societies
4 and other Catholic organizations will be in
| vited to attend in full regalia, and general
| invitation will be extended 10 the church of
| the state. Excursion trains will probably
/ be run from Indianapolis Peru, Logansport,
Richmond, Wabash, Frankfort and Craw-
fordsville.
The Springfield Union knows of IAN earn
est and ablesChristian minister" now doing
good work~iu town near Springfield,
Massachusetts,, on a salary of $500, $50 of
| which 60 for house rent, and 'tall gifts from
members of the society are charged against
| the salary account" So cheap minister as
that is dsmoralizing. He shouldn't be per-
/ mitted a summer vacation, nor allowed to
mix with the reverend gentlemen who are
endeavoring pretty successfully to make
| their profession elegant and profitable.
At Quitman. Georgia, a second adventist
has been convicted of violating the statute
| which makes it misdemeanor to labor on
| the first day of the week He vainly tried
to shelter himself under the clause of the
constitution guaranteeing to all men the
| right to worship God according to the dc
! tates of conscience, but the court ruled that
| the law under which he was indicted had
| nOJnlng 10 Go with MS renglOuS Dellef, but
| only declared that he should not labor on
the Sabbath except in cases of necessity or
| charity.
An unwillingness on the part of the elder
Disraeh to pay forty guineas. caused his
son, the earl of Beaconsfield, to become an
attendant at Christian churches. The for
| mer belonged to the Portuguese synagogue
of Bevis Marks, in London. He was chosen
president of the synagogue, but declined to
serve. The penalty for the declInation was
| forty guineas This he declined to pay, and
| withdrew from membership rather than
comply. Being free thinker and Jew by
| race rather than religion, he Immediately at
tended an Episcopal church with his family.
At his death a friend paid his fine, and he
was buried in the Jewish cemetery.
In Hartford, Conn.,, there is a man who
has learned that torments are only blessings
in disguise. He is bald headed and on a re-
| cent hot Sunday morning sitting in church
he suddenly missed his spectacles. This an
noyed him exceedingly, and a great part of
the congregation observed and sympathized
| with his vexation. Presently several flies
that had been lowering near him, catching
| sight of the smooth white scalp, darted to-
| ward it, and in an instant two of them had
| pierced the skin. Up flew the hand of the
hand of the bald headed man-and there
were his spectacles, resting Just where he had
left them. The agony of the fly bites was
disci2ated in the recovery of his glasses and
he bore the subsequent persecution of the
hateful insects with a calm resignation
worthy of the place and day.