The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10

that these people are to go over by the thou.
sands to redeem Africa" has not yet found
its way largely into practical operation.
Mr.. oliver A. Willard late editor of the
Chicago Evening Post, who died suddenly,
March Il, was originally a Methodist
minister, and did good service in Colorado.
He left the ministry from the conviction
that he had become secularized' and
should not remain in it.
Considering the great number of unem-
ployed ministers in the east and the great
demand for them in the west, an influential
Minnesota man writes TO the Baptist Weekly
for hundred or two of them to "come
west" and adds: eff any should be so un-
fortunate as to starve TO death, I'll agree to
pay funeral expenses myself"
The Methodist says: "a seasonable
suggestion Is that young pastors ought to
qualify themselves to manage church
finances with discretion, accuracy and sue.
cess. Several important charges have been
recently brought to our notice as examples
of the demand for pastors possessed of
financial skill. Some of our very successful
ministers would fail, though they are gifted
preachers, if they could not manage finances.
The laymen ought TO do this work; but there
are many cases in which they do not, and
some in which they can not. The young
pastor who wants to be thoroughly equipped
should study this part of his work"
Few writers know when to stop writing;
they say too much. Martin Luther closed
his speech before the diet of Worms with
these words: Here / stand, / can not do
otherwise. God help me. Amen" Sup
pose he said: The position which at pres
ent occupy shall continue to maintain
The latter is grammatically correct. You
can parse 1t, but literary art condemns it as
weak and unworthy. Go back to the Old
Testament: "Let there be light, and there
was light" Beyond the naked grandeur of
these words art can not go. And, in fact,
breyity is an art-and one worth cultivating,
TOO.
The Rev. William Rogers, London Epis-
copali4n pastor, his church being in the
hands of the mechanics for repairs, improved
the opportunity to visit Pettlcoat lane on a
Sunday morning. In the account of what he
witnessed, prepared for the Times, he says:
II found a state of things in that quarter
which battles description. There were thou
sands and thousands of the very roughest
portion OF the populace precipitated upon
this center from all quarters of the town,
and from suburbs at a distance. They are
massed together in the low and narrow
streets, forming a dense mass of unwashed
humanity, collected ostensibly for the pur-
pose of buying and selling old clothes, but
really for the purpose of idling, card sharp
ing, pocket-picking, and every other nefari-
Gus purpose"
WHY'S it that the Sunday-school is so often
thronged while the sanctuary is neglected?
Very simple is the answer and readily dis
cernible, says the Christian at Work, by no
ticing the relations of cause and effect. The
reason why Sunday-school is so often
thronged is that in Sunday school the child
rem are preached to either by teacher or Sun
| day-school superintendent-it matters little
which. III minister never sees the little ones,
whose heads are about on a level with the
pew backs, how can he expect they will
come to church Sunday after Sunday? Take
the Rev. DR.. Dryasdust, ID. D., Phi. D., Ii. d.
how often does he preach to children? In.
stead, be breaches away very learned, very
scholarly and very dull sermons, addressed
generally to the sinner averaging in years
| from 40 TO 20. Is it any wonder that the
children don't attend? We want more
preaching adapted to the children, and then
| the Sunday school will have to bear fewer
| infrmities of the church.