The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


The foreign committee of the Episcopal
church wants Sl40, 900 for this years work.
The P.en-Anglican synod in London will
be in session during the whole month of
July.
a Presbyterian college for the training of
native Christian workers is 10 be established
at Cordova, Spain.
Canon Farrar. of the English church. has
been making tonr of Scotland as temper
ance lecturer. he is e Jealous advocate of
total abstinence.
The people in a certain Massachusetts
town, 'fup back" of Springfield, went one
day last week to the Needy meetings in such
numbers that the place was deserted and the
mills had to be stopped.
1t is now stated that MI: Barton, the heroic
bank cashier, OF Dexter, Maine, rho sacri-
feed his life rather than betray his trust
was the main stay of the Congregational
church in his native town."
1t is proposed to open hall for evazgelis-
tic work in Marseilles, France. Being q sea-
port and swarming with people from all
countries the place offers peculiar opDor-
tunities for effort of this kind.
The southern Methodist general confer
ence which meets in Atlanta, Georgia, In
May, will consist of 148 ministers and IS
many laymen, representing 81 annual con-
ferences and about 700 900 members.
The property of the Howard church, San
Francisco, has been sold under foreclosure.
The subscriptions made through Mr.. Kim
balls efforts were not all paid. and those who
fulfilled their pledges viii have their money
refunded.
"Mr Moody don't know enough to convert
me, said young girl to friend at one of
the inquiry meetings. mo, but Jesus
Christ does" said voice behind her, and
turning, she found that it was Mr.. Moody,
who had accidentally overheard her CONVEX
sation.
The work of revising the authorized Eng
lish version Of the Bible is paid for
IN England by the syndics of
the university press, who have a copyright
in the book; the expenses of the American
revisers betrayed by private contribu-
tons. No compensation is paid to the
revisers for their labor. 1t is expected that
the work will be completed in two years.
The ritualistic additions made by Mr..
Tooth to the furniture of st. James church,
Hatcham, and which the chancellor of the
diocese of Rochester has ordered to be re-
moved are l. a confessional box q A
tablet of wood, with IAN inscription of the
st. James, Hatcham, ward of the confrater-
nifty of the blessed sacrament. 3. Music
stand, occasionally used by brass band.
4 a wooden structure callen tryptych fixed
to the wall over the communion table, and
extending over nearly one-half of the east
window. ). A screen, with doors of heavy
workmanship, separating a so-called lady
chapel" from the rest of the church 6. A
screen, with gates of heavy workmanship,
separating the nave from the chancel. Z. A
wooden beam, extending across the nave, for
the purpose of supporting a cruciiix. An
appeal from the chancellor's decision will be
taken.
In regard to one of the much agitated
questions of the day we read in the Golden
Rule that lit may be well for all Christians
to remember especially those who are called
upon to fulfill the duties of the ministry,
that the great object in preaching is not 10
convince men that there isn't hell or is a
hell, but TO lead lives of such godliness that
whether there is or whether there isn't Will
be taken out of the category of practical
questions. Some shrewd and witty man has
ssid-we think it was Chapin-when ques-
toned on the matter OF his position in
respect TO future punishment that he did
not preach 20 keep men out of hell, but to
keep hell out of men, 1t is the present
misery, the present wickedness, the present
torture of guilt, that Christianity seeks to
relieve men from. Preach salvation
efficiently and Gamnatlon becomes simply
theoretical"
The Methodist book concern at Cincinnati
will publish the new hymns in April 1t
will contain 500 pages and some L, 100 hymns.
About othirds OF the old hymns will be
retained, the additions consisting of selec-
tons of the Wesleys' contemporaries and
predecessors, and from the new hymns that
have stood the test of % or 30 years The
last revision of the Methodist hymn book
took place in 1913, when some alterations
made in the text bnt these have been
restored in the present collection, notably
Hail, Thou once despised Jesust
Hail, Thou Galilean dngt
over which there was quite a lengthy con-
trovefsy recently. From 1870 to 1910 Thou
Everlasting King was the phrase, which
subsequent revision approved; but in
the new hymnal Thou Galilean King will
appear, which must be regarded settling
the text Among the new additions are
hymns for special occasions and there are
special hymns on Temperance, thanksgiving,
etc. The standard size Is 16mo Then there
will be 12mo edition for popular use. The
pulpit edition will be Smo. A Dino, the
size of which most is sold, and an addition
in pearl type, double columns and flexible
covers, will meet the greatest demand The
hymns will be indexed simply by numbers,
and the number in the tune book will CORE
spond with the hymn book.
A correspondent noting the cardinals as
they entered into conclave for the election
of a pope wrote: Each cardinal came &C
companied by his conclavists. who were to
be shut up with him, and attended by ser
wants carrying carpet bags, bundles of rugs
strapped up, and other belongings, exactly
as if they were arriving at the entrance of
/ railway station to go off by some special
/ ecclesiastical train. One cardinal, in addi-
/ ton to his bags and rugs had foot bath,
another couple of comfortable looking
cushions. With the procession of cardinals
/ going in were intermingled many
curious details connected with the
ooaclave life they were about to
commences. Men bearing, suspended from
pole borne on their shoulders, great bas-
l4ets filled with table linen, hampers of
wine, which, however, can only pass within
the inner line when poured into glasses or
pellucid deeanters uncorked; butchers boys
carrying considerable weight OF meat
choice oirts, presume; and may be ex-
cused the revelation) one big basket we were
the conta ned pasaicetti (sweetmeats) for the
eminences so addicted. When the Spanish
cardinals arrived three large trunks, covered
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