The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-03

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Canon Farar has been lecturing in Scotland
in behalf of temperance.
Great Britain has only one regularly or
dained Universalist minister.
Bishop Tuigg, the Roman Catholic bishop
of Pittsburg, has issued a pastoral letter
taking strong ground against mixed mar
riages," and urges all Catholics not to marry
Protestants.
The Rev. Percy Browne, of Massachusetts,.
/ can see no reason why clergyman should not
attend the theater when high toned moral
/ play is being enacted by actors of purity and
intelligence.
Bishop Paine, of the Methodist Episcopal
church south. has been in the episcopal
Office 30 years; Bishops Pierce and Kayan-
augh, "a years; Bishops Doggett, Wightman
and McTyeire, II years, and Bishop
Keener, s.
DR.. Murdoch. of the Baptist missionary
union, calls this month for $75 900 to pre-
vent debt at the close of the year. A like
amount was contributed in March of last
year. DIR. Cutting, of the home mission So
ciety, makes similar appeal.
OF the white Baptist churches in Ken.
lucky only 40 have preaching every Sunday
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month and /, 1i2 have preaching only once q
month. In states further south the case is
still worse. OF the twenty odd thousand
Baptist churches of the United States nearly
or quite three quarters are of the "once't
month" kind.
After Mr.. Moody arrived in New Haven
last Saturday he was about 10 enter his car
rage at the station, when the hackney
drivers standing about sang, 'Pm glad sal
vation's free" Mr.. Moody's attention was
thus attracted, and he said, ''Do you mean
it boys?" and some one replying, "Yes, sir
the evangelist added in his heartfelt man
ner, God bless you ALL"
| Religious teaching is not to be cavilled at.
and any Sunday-school which actually pro.
vides such teaching is so far to be commend
I ed. But, says the Churchman. every Sun
1 day-school which processes to provide such
/ teaching and does not do so is worse than
/ useless; it is positively evil. 1t wrongfully
occupies a portion of the Lords day and
more fatal than that, serves as an empty
| excuse for parents themselves to neglect to
/ teach their children.
/ When you pray at prayer meeting pray to
/ the Lord, and not to the audience or the
minister. They were two deacons, and they
went to call on a church member and find
/ ing him at his deyotions, stood by the door
/ way in the attitude of reverence. When
! the prayer was finished they complimented
/ their friend on his fervor and earnestness
He replied, however, "Ah, if 1 had only
known you were listening l would have
I shown you what could do, but thought /
/ was all alone"
The Rev. B. S. Taylor, pastor OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Sandlake, New
York, instead of preaching a sermon last
Sunday made this announcement: The
board of trustees have not paid my salary,
/ have taken no notice of my demands, circu-
I lated no subscription paper. nor made any
other effort to fulfill their obi cations to me.
am badly involved in debt, and do not
propose to contine preaching for nothing. 1
/ therefore declare the pulpit vacant until God
I in his mercy can send you minister who can
live on air and wear buckskin breeches of
his own make"
A writer in the Independent sums up the
teachings of orthodox Protestant scholarship
on the question of eternal punishment, in
the leading theological colleges of this coun-
try, as follows:
l. The doctrine is represented as having its
foundation not only in the Bible, but also in
/ the human rea on.
! 2. II God has the natural power aud the de-
sire to all, he it is not for the highest
good of the universe to exercise this power or
TO satisfy this desire
3. He'll is represented not as material, but as
mental. Remorse of conscience is the dlstinc-
| tive punishment.
4. Punishment, therefore, differs with indi-
viduals. 1t is proportional To the sinners
/ guilt.
5. The large majority of the human race will
4 be finally saved.
Leo XIII. allows no man to body forth his
! conceits or develop his views He sits at his
/ table for hours and writes down every word
with his own hand. When at work he
/ brooks no disturbance; his preference is for
! country solitude he walks alone with hasty
steps in his garden, busy with the lofty
thoughts which are to leave mark on his
pontificate. None of the secret cham
berlalns of his predecessor have been
retained. AT an end for ever is the
reign of the Casali, Negrotto De Bisogno,
| Cenni, Macchi, and other creatures begotten
of the good or Ill humor of Plus IN; igno-
rant, obstinate, mean, gossipIng, flattering
courtiers. The men chosen by the new
pope TO fill their places-MonsignoTs Ami
With, Cretoni, Ciccolini, and the rector OF
the college OF Perugia-are modest, learned,
and charitable and known to him by old
familiar intercourse as scholars ana writers
of distinguished abilities Hence there is
visible dismay, terrible illhumor, many
lamentations and curses. among the in
Vulnerable hangers-on of the late Iontif, at
! the vatican, who foresee the end of the
abuses that they were wont to enjoy at the
expense of the contributors of Peters pence.
! Pope Leo, just and stern ruler, is foe to
idleness, TO vice, to fees and bribes, to all
cringing and iattery. The new pope's
sceptre, as it has been painted in popular
caricature, is a mighty broom which is
rapidly sweeping the palace halls of the
rabble which the deceased pontiffs facility
and improvidence had converted into i'm
mondezza, Augean stables and dirt heaps.
This severe picture of the past and present
of the papal establishment is not mine. 1t
is borrowed from a writer who dips his pen
in vatican ink, and possibly mixes some gall
of his own In it; but ~ is an undeniable fact
that Pope Leo does not allow any veneratlon
for the memory of Pope Plus to interfere
with the reforms which the indulgence OF
his predecessor had rendered necessary in
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