The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-24
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
Henry Ward Beecher regards poverty as
means OF grace. But then he hasn't tried it
lately.
Mr. Charles E Stowe, the son of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, has just been Ii
censed to preach by the congregational asso'
citation.
Among the seven members of Newark
church recently expelled are several young
women, charged with undue relations with
a former officer and teacher of the Sunday
school. Two we're sisters of good family,
and another the daughter of a prominent
politician.
The Rev. c. W. Fitch, d. D., for ten years
professor of languages at Kenyon college,
and earlier aud later connected with other
western educational institutions, died at
Louisville on Saturday, aged II. He was
born at Rensselaerville, n. Y. in 1906 and
graduated at the Alexandria, Va, theologi-
cal seminary of the P. E. church in 1926.
During the last thirteen years he was a chap
lam in the navy. and was on sick leave when
he died.
When minister editors want to emphasize
any point they can indulge in Ian yuage and
comparisons as strong as their lay brethren.
An illustration is seen in an Grafton dellv-
cred the other day by DIR. Fowler of the
Christian Advocate. Speaking of a change
of our government from a republic
to monarchy he gave the following fine SEN
tence: Rather than undertake to establish
n throne, it would be better tor man to go
to sea in a stone boat with iron oars and
leaden sails with the wrath of God for a
breeze and hell for the nearest port"
The Lichfield Enquirer SAYS that one day
during Mr.. Moody's preaching in Hartford,
last winter, a member of the house strayed
into the rink out of curiosity to hear the
evangelist. Daily listening 10 the eloquence
of Gallagher, of Andrews, of Brewster, and
of Harlan made him rather fastidious, and
after hearing Mr.. Moody for season he con-
cluded to retire. Going to the door he was
told that it was locked. "Mr. Moody did not
like to be worried with folks going out and
coming in Rising to the height of six feet
two, the member inquired of that door
keeper il he ever heard of the great writ of
habeas corpus. The d or keeper never had.
Finally the member proposed a compromise
"Do you 60 to Mr.. Moody and tell him if he
will let me out this time, | will never worry
him any morew The man in authority was
obstinate, and in defiance of the great char
ter of the constitution, and of the special
privileges of members of the legislature, be
was compelled 10 hear the whole of Mr..
Moody's discourse.
The determination of Sherman's son,
Thomas Ewing Sherman to become a priest
reviyes the romantic story of the life and
love of one of General Scott's daughters. As
the story goes the daughter fell deeply IN
love with a member of one of the foreign
legation. The attachment was reciprocal
but the match was so bitterly opposed by the
old hero or Lundy's lane that it was broken
of. She cared nothing for the world after
that, and very soon was received as a nun in
the Georgetown convent. Her lover returned
to his native country and was soon enrolled
in the priesthood of the Catholic church. In
subsequent years be was ordered to George
town college and took his turn in hearing
the confessions of the nuns at the convent
On one of these occasions Miss Scott knelt
in confessional to her former lover, and under
such circumstances recognition took place.
She tainted, went into rapid decline, and
soon after died and he left the country again
never to return. So a Washington gossip
declares.
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE.
Eight years ago the Rev. Robert ID. Brad
ley preached in a town in the state OF MIS-
souri, from the text And the Lord God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and
bresthed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and mau became a living SOUL" Mr.. Brad
ley had from boyhood been an ardent ad-
mirer of the steam engine, and after return
ing to his study at the conclusion of the
services his mind continued to dwell on the
words of his text, and, as if by inspiration,
new field of thought was opened to him.
"Man is a piece of machinery" he reas
.oned to himself, with the Author of all
things as his maker; and, therefore, he must
have been made perfect in physical point
of view. The entire organism of man was
created and completed, but not until God
breathed into his nostIiis the breath OF life
did he become q living, active being As
soon as that psrt OF the human machine
called the lungs WAS breathed into, and the
air cells were filled, then the heart was set
in motion. the blood began coursiDg through
the body, and man became living soul"
Discardipg the theory OF Harvey on the
circulation of the blood. which suppOses
that the heart is the engine which forces the
blood through the veins, Mr. Bradley con-
ceived the idea that the expansion and con-
traction OF the air cells of the lungs are the
forces which send the blood couIsing through
the body, and that the heart, with Its valvu-
lar action, simply regulates the sapply.
Acting on this theory the young clergy
man, without any knowledge of the con-
structiOn of machinery or of the science of
chemistry, began the experiment of con-
istructing a new motive power to supply the
place of steam and to do away with the me-
cessity of the cumbersome steam boiler.
For eight years the inventor has pursued
his pet idea in the face of opposing obsta-
cles, until at last he has perfected a motive
power which, il is said, is destined to rey0-
futionize the use of steam power throughout
the world This invention is known as the
Bradley promethor. In its construction II
Is simple; Its power Is said to be unlimited,