The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-18
RELIGIOUS EATERS.


At the Second Advent general camp meet
ing, Alton Bay, n. H, as many as 5000 peo-
pie and so preachers have been present in q
single day.
The Moravians in this country give an
average of over So each for missionary work
There are 10000 of them and the church
| raises $S5, 900.
In Pennsylvania there are Lutheran pas
tors who serve four, five, six and seven con-
gregations, and there are two who serve eight
One charge has membership, it IS reported
OF 1,726.
Mr.. Sankey, now in England, having failed
to induce Mr.. Moody to join him there, will
begin a revival himself, with the assistance
of English preachers and intends to make q
tour of the whole of England.
The receipts of the American board icon.
gregationalist) for the month of August have
averaged only $1,000 a day, against So 900
that was necessary to secure the $Sl 900
needed to close the year without a debt.
The Rev. Mr.. Gilliland, rector of Trinity
church, Bristol, Conn, suddenly announces
that he becomes Roman Catholic. His
course produces much surprise, as his own
family had no intimation Of his Intentions
A very worldly paper, giving an account
OF q season of extraordinary religious fervor
at 8 camp meeting, adds: The managers of
the grounds have provided an excellent fire
apparatus, with ladders, rakeS and buckets,
in case of fire upon the grounds"
An appeal has been made in England for
| s., 800 to aid the Lay college attached TO DR..
Talmage's church in Brooklyn. According
to this appeal more than 100 students have
| been sent out from this college TO become
| ministers, missionaries and lay preachers
The Portuguese colonists at Springfield
and Jacksonville, ILL.,, who In 1910 fled from
the Madeira Islands, to escape religious per-
secuiion, celebrated their thirty second an
! niversary, in a grove near Springfield, Au-
gnst %. At Jacksonville there are about
1000 of these people.
The Bsptists OF the west complain that the
doctrine of Baptist independency has been
very much abused. As there is no ecclesi-
astical supervision anybody who pleases has
the right to establish Baptist church. The
result is that there are many weak little
churches, hardly able to live.
A convention of the German Baptlsts of
the eastern states closed its session last Mon
day at New Haven. Twenty-six years ago
there were only eight small churches and
five ministers of this denomination IN the
|. United States. Now there are 115 churches,
130 active ministers, and /, 26S Sunday school
teachers.
A new Life of Spurgeon' has been pub
lished, bringing his history down TO the
present time. It has reached a sale of 10 600
copies. Spurgeon is still afflicted with gout
and other infirmities. He says there Is no
possibility that he will ever visit this coun-
try Every year brings him tempting offers
to do so with view OF lecturiDg. He saysbe
is no lecturer and could not lecture il he
wanted to.
A suit has been begun by the adminlstra-
tor of the estate of the late Bishop Lee, of
the diocese of Iowa, against Griswold college
and William Stevens Perry, the present
bishop of the diocese. claiming the sale of
Grace cathedral, and the grounds belonging
TO it in Davenport, to pay the sum OF $l2.-
600, being advances by Bishop Lee, as trus-
tee of the Protestant Episcopal church OF
the state for the erection and furnishing of
the cathedral.
An eminent minister of the Reformed
church was approached by a sinful man wco
said be wanted to become religious. He also
wanted hundred dollars. He said that If
the minister would lend him that sum he
would Join the church and also compel his
son. an exceedingly wayward lad, to study
theology with the view of becoming minis
ter Although such offers as this are not
made every day the minister was bard heart
ed enough to keep bis hundreI dollars and
let the sinful man take his outside chances.
Some of the clergy In the far west have
rough time OF II and poor pay One OF them
writes to a religious paper that he can not
see why he should have TO pay his subscrip-
ton for year in advance while his salary is
from nine to Is months behind hand. An
other wants clothing and writes: IF any
good people Will take pleasure in sending
me a decent suit in which to appear in
the pulpit it will help me forward. My
clothes are worn out in the Masters service;
family large; salary so very small that can
not spare dollar for my own clothes. Ny
height Is six feet, weight $50 pounds (arms
longl. hat size IA (soft bat), foot size, 6s.
am doing foundation work for the Master
and trying to endure hardness as good SOL
dier for His sake, and can report so conyer.
sions under my ministry last year."
BY royal decree the Escurial of Philip IL,
in New CASTLE, Spain, is to be converted into
picture gallery, 'for which" remarks the
Atheneum (London) 'It is pre-eminently
unfit, whether as regards its construction or
its historical associations" Besides the royal
palace and royal chapel this famous building
contains monastery with 200 cells, col
leges, chapter houses, 3 libraries, great
halls, dormitories, 3 hospital halls, q other
halls, refectories, 5 infirmaries, countless
number of small apartments, so staircases,
1 1,110 outward and 1878 inward windows,
besides IA gates and SO fountains. The build
ing is of white stone, and of the Doric order
OF architecture, and was built in fulfillment