The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-27
RELIGIOUS WORK AND WORKERS.


Poor Mans Sunday.
Tho merry birds are singing,
And from the fragrant sod
The spirits of a thousand flowers
Go swFetly mp TO God;
While In His holy temple
We meet to praise and pray
With cheerful voice and grateful heart.
Ihls summer sabbath day!
We thank Thee. Lord. for one day
To Iook heaven in the facet
The poor have only Sunday,
The sweeter Is the grace.
'ris then they make the music
that sings their week away,
q there's a sweetness infinite
In the Poor Mans Sabbath day.
.'Tis burst of sunshine
A tender fall of rain,
That sets the fairest life abloom;
Makes old hearts young again.
The dry and dusty roadside
With smiling flowers is gay,
'Tis open heaven, one day in seven,
The Poor Mans Sabbath day.
IT'S here the weary pilgrim
Doth reach the House of Easel
That blessed house called beautiful"
And that soft chamber "Peace
The River OF Life runs through his dream
And the leaves OF heaven are at play;
He sees the Golden City CLEAN
This shining, sabbath day.
Take heart We faint and fearful,
Your cross with courage bear;
So many a face fearful
Shall shine in glory tbere;
Where AL the sorrow Is banished,
The tears are wiped away,
And ali eternity shall be
One endless sabbath day.
All, there are empty places
Since last we mingled here!
There will be missing faces
When we meet another yeari
But heart TO heart, before we part,
Now altogether pray,
That we may meet in heaven, to spend
Gerald Massey.
The colored Methodist church south has
ZS, 719 members.
The late Pope Plus TX. was the 257th in
the line of Roman pontiffs.
-Four ffths of all the Baptists in the world
are found in the United States.
The queen has accepted handsomely
bound copy of the United Presbyterian
Hymn nal"
The Baptists in the United States have
1856 minister's 23,90s congregations and
2,024, 2A members.
The debt Of the. American missionary soci-
ety has been decreased from over $93, 600 in
1876 to less than $4,000.
Fully one foufth of the Roman Catholics
of the world are, it is said in America
North, Central and South.
Henry NJ. Stanley confirms the statement
that King NJ tesa one of the interior African
sovereigns, is anxious for the introduction of
Christianity among his people.
The Canada Methodists expended during
the last year $50 600 for missionary purposes
among the Indians, while their American
brethren expended for the same purpose but
$4,000.
The international confederation for pro-
noting the observance of the ChrIstian Sab
bath has offered prize OF 1000 francs for
the best essay on The Evils of Sunday and
Railroad Traffic"
Professor Dana, of Yale college, says of the
first chapter OF Genesis: Examining it as
geologist, ] find it to be in perfect accord
with known science; therefore, as a Chris
tian, assert that the Bible narrative must
be inspired"
The Christian at Work calls attention to
the fact that while there are 50 many who
reading of the Bible for few moments in
the public schools, there are very few even
among those very men who ever think of
gathering their families around them for
prayer and the reading of a chapter of the
Scriptures in their own homes. Against
such proceeding neither the law, the pulpit
nor ones neighbor can have anything to say.
The excuses. says the Christian at Work, are
various: Sometimes, and most often, the
excuse IS that plea which is the curse of
American social life-want of time, which
must be given by business men. Man can
make money, but he can not pray. He can
stand up before the desk 10 hours day, but
he can not kneel before his Maker 10 min
utes Man finds time 10 go to friend,
neighbor, business acquaintance and solicit
a favor which very likely will be refused.
But he has no time to ask the richest gifts
of Him who is more willing to give than His
children are 10 receive. Yet men read, and
grow ind gnant over the abolition OF a five
minute Bible reading in some public school,
and very likely attend public meeting to
protest against the outrage, and perhaps
they read set of long drawn, eloquent
resolutions upon the subject. And then
they go to their prayerless homes with the
consciousness of q noble duty grandly per
formed. Out upon such travesty, such
cheat! We want an altar set up in every
American home. We want it in every fam
ily-whether Protestant Catholic or Jewish
"a daily Bible reading and daily prayer"