The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-15
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


On missionaries feeds,
Until he has consumed score,
Then raw v'nousIy proceeds
To gOoble up another score
or a1ment so crude,
May not be very brave, but then,
He has his forty chewed.
Moedey is reported as saying that in
tellectual men are the hardest to convert.
George William Curtis, of New York, will
preside at the Unitarian festival to be held
in the Boston music hall May 30.
The Episcopal bishop of Niobrara has ad-
mitted to deacon's orders a Sioux Indian
with the Christian name of Amos Ross.
The way in which many a little boy says
prayth' Lordmysoult'kee gshouldie b. 'foreI-
wake. prayth' Lord mysoult' take.n
The site of the church of All Hallows,
Broad street, London, in which Milton was
baptized, has been sold to a city merchant
for f32, 500, being at the rate of fl0 per foot.
The southern Methodist church is gaining
large German constituency. They have
about 10, ,00U German members, belonging to
two German conferences and to several Eng
lish.
Attention is called to the lack of church
facilities for Protestants in Berlin. There
are only 81 churches and 90 pastors for the
804, 900 people who call themselves Protest
ants.
George ID. Prentice once said: ''I hear a
thousand things from the pulpit that make
me smile, yet would rather be Christian
of the hunlblest order of intellect than the
most gloriously-gifted infidel that ever
blazed like comet through the atmosphere
of earth"
IL -,
proposes to lay tax upon each of its mem
bers to raise sustentation fund for the
benefit of those clergy who under the opera
tion of the public worship regulation act
may be suspended and thus deprived of their
means of support.
In the report of the work of the Presbyte.
rian mission in Gaboon, Africa, the past
year, ii Is stated that considerable progress
has been made in the work of completing
the translation of the Bible into the Mpong-
we language. Sixteen new hymns have
been translated and printed, besides first
book in Mpongwe. The second book, and
also the shorter catechism, are ready for the
press.
Bishop Haven says when Mrs. Van Cott,
the Methodist evangelist, was in New Or
leans, she planned to preach to white and
to colored audiences the same day, when
ouC COulQ nOb pICdCn W uulACu OObSICSd-
tons. When she left the city she was
attended to the wharf ''by the greatest escort
of leading white citizens and of colored
admirers that that city, or any other city,
ever witnessed"
Many clergymen and others on whom the
duty of making prayer in public deyolves
seem to labor under the impression that ii
is their duty to furnish the Almighty with
as much information as the time allotted for
praying will permit. For illustration: A
prominent Milwaukee preacher, last Sunday,
in the course OF the twenty minutes allowed
for his address to the Throne OF Grace, re-
D ited, Systematically and in order, the leading
events IN the life of Christ.
For several years the Southern Presby-
terian church has had the book of church
order under revision. 1t is regularly sent
down to the presbyteries every year after
alteration by the assembly aud as regularly
sent up again for further revision. The
vote of the presbyteries this year indicates
that the same course will be followed.
About thirty six of the presbytenes have
been heard from. Twenty vote to adopt the
book, ten to reject and SIX, while declining
to adopt in its present form, are in favor of
continuing the revision. 1t is manifest that
the mind of the church. by large majority,
is in favor of going on with the work until
agreement as to details is secured.