The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

gerous reefs. We must accept the inevitable
law, and, however foreign to our selfish
purpose, bow to its unbending DEGREES. saw
ing our strength for the accomplishment of
such plans as are within the range of our
| individual powers.
daily prayer meeting is held in the inn
mense lace warehouse OF Thomas Adams lE
Co., Nottingham, England. 1t was establish
ed p years ago. and has continued without
intermission since that time. No compul-
sion whatever is put upon the work people
to attend the service. The half hour il lasts.
from O'Clock to $50, is taken out OF the
masters time. Ii not at chapel, everybody
must be in his or her proper place in the
warehouse doing appointed work The result
Is that out OF total of 800 workers the aver
| age daily attendance is more than 500.
| involving weekly loss of 1,500 hours to the
| firm.
The Presbyterian general assembly has re-
ferred resolution to one OF its committees
requesting journalists to limit the details of
crime, and thereby prevent the debasement
of the public morals. The suggestion is a
| timely one. If one were to judge the world
| by the daily issue OF many of the leading
newspapers. he would infer that nothing
! good existed in the universe. 1t is not a
synopsis of crime, but careful compilation
| of the crimes and atrocities Gathered at any
cost. The good deeds can wait. or be passed
over, but scandal must fly on the lightning.
] We are thus educating the youth of the age
to be lovers of the exciting and vicious.
The Christian IntelIigencer thus discours-
es: "Many boy, we believe, gets blamed
| and punished at home and at school, who
would bear good reputation if his flannels
were properly washed and looked after.
What can You expect of boy-and boys
are so often blamed for being petulent and
peppery-in these first warm DAYS of the
| season, whose system, sapped by the spring
| feaver, which, in spite of the endeavor of
| well and hearty people to ignore its exis-
tence, is very real and ddlssgreeable ailment,
is tortured by fiannels grown thick and tight
with the winters washing-who has out
| grown his winter clothes, yet must wear,
them till others are provided for him: whose
| sleeves ere too short, and his pantalOons of
that most uncomfortable length, above the
| tops of his shoes? Do not think it strange,
if, thus harassed, he should fall into the
snare of the eyilon who is always ready
with his masked batteries when poor human
nature is most tried and worried. Before
you blame him or punish him. see that his
| clothes are made comfortable and easy. We
believe that tight and ill-fitting garments are
the cause of many of our Shortcomings How
can we continue in a tranquil state of mind,
| ready to perform the duties which are re-
quired of US with faithfulness and fidelity,
| while we are agonized, perhaps, with the
| pain of collar too small for us, which binds
so tightly over our jugular vein that the
blood rushes into our face and roars in our
ears when We st0op over; or with arm-holes
so tight as to prevent free circulation of
| the blood? People of sensitive organizations
often feel the influence of such discomforts
| without knowing what is the trouble and
they daily mourn over and repent of their
fits of impatieDce and temper, which would
have been avoided if their clothing were
made comfortable"
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dote of Mr.. Moody at New Haven last week
that think has not yet got into the papers.
Moody was preaching at the New Haven
tabernacle upon Salvation and its perfect
freedom, and replying 10 certain supposed
objections, when he made the following IL
lustration: You have only got to make it,
that's all. Here Mr.. Meserye" Cunning to
the pastor of the Davenport Congregational
church, who sat close by.) "If were to Of
fer you my Bible you would accept il. would
you notl, Certainly," said Mr.. Meserve.
Then take it." said Moody, Its yours"
thrusting the Bible he had been using into
! Meserye's hands. Its a free gift; keep it."
The illustration brought down the house as
Mr.. Meserve put the bOok-a copy which
Mr.. Moody has long used-into his pocket.
He has since refused 500 for it. as it is
deemed a very valuable keepsake from
Moody's notes and marks therein. Now l
happen to know that the whole transaction
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part, and that he greatly valued the book,
yet the illustration was so effective that
nothing could induce him to take il back.
Hence Mr. Meserve is having a duplicate
interlined Bible bound up for him. Such
touches as these that Edwsrd Everett was
wont to work up with great care seem to
come off-hand To Mr.. Moody, who bas con-
quered in New Haven, as he has everywhere,
by his simple, earnest msnliness,
1 Il.
and patient woman, died early. His father
was a Presbyterian preacher of a pure out
ward life, not unsuccessful a revival
preacher, bat course rough overbeariDg and
sour, creating at home peculiarly forbid
ding atmosphere, as connected with his fam
| lily and religious discipline. The elder
Ingersoll, after the death of Roberts mother,
married second wife-a lady of cul-
ture and excellent character; but she
only lived with him about q year, and as
soon after the birth of a child as she could
bear the fatigue her brother came for her,
and carried the mother, child and her prop
critics to her native home. She never return
ed. Two years after the father removed to
the west, where he married a third wife-a
lady OF marked religious deportment-a
widow. In less than year she also left and
found refuge with her married children.
These cases were all examined by church
committees, and though, in the last instance,
Mr.. Ingersoll was suspended from the min
istry a while, the sentence was revoked, and
he continued to preach for time. In such
a home, under such an exhibition of sour,
morose, gloomy and unlotely characterist-
les, this now utterly in6del man passed his
most impressible years. Example and char
acter are infinitely more powerful than pro-
fession and precept. The writer well says:
"The tree was planted in poisoned soil, and
its fruit is bitter indeed" How many, not
as extreme, indeed, but stil unlovely and
bligbted have been thus nurtured in pro-
fessedly Christian homes? All eternal en-
deavors have been made abortive by the
perverse and forbidding influence of the
| home.
| Hsw True
What a ceremonioas affair we make of
entertaining company. Too many of us