The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-22
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Will the pews in Heaven be put up at
auction?
son of Sitting Bull has been converted
by an Episcopalian missionary at the Chey-
enne Agency.
Gardner is holding revival meetings in Pro-
violence. We trust that Gardener may SOW
the right seed.
Preachers and Christians generally are ex-
pscting many precious results from the
week of prayer"
Joseph Cooks New York audiences are in
creaslng. He holds the attention of all from
beginning to end of his lectures.
Visitors to st. Paups Cathedral, London,
carry opera glasses, SO as to have good look
at the preacher and the bonnets.
The trouble with good many religious
people is that they do not take in the sweep
of eternity. They are too much bound to
earth life.
A certain minister is said to have agreed to
supply church for year on condition that
nobody among the people will speak ill of
him during the time.
The Episcopalian bishop OF Ontario sent
circular to the laity of his diocese last month,
urging greater hberality in their holiday Of
ferings to their pastors.
The late Princess Alice was at one time at
tracted by the infidel writings of Strauss; but
after losing her little son. she was led to seek
and find peace in Jesus Christ
Rev. j. B. Grass of Wilkesbarre be-
Geyes in dancing. Grass says he doesn't care
a straw how much his congregation trip the
light fantastic toe in the y-day of their
youth.
Rev. David Winters, an old and highly
respected minister of Columbus, o., made
an assignment last week. He had been spec
ulating in grain, and lost. Liabilities not
known.
Exactly fifty-one Congregational ministers
divided their joys and doubled their sorrows
last year-we mean they doubled their joys
and divided their SORROWS In other words,
they married.
At the recent consistory of the Unitarians
of Hungary it was reported that there are
%. ia Unitarians in Hungary, including
Pennsylvania Last year Isl persons were
received into the church and 10 left it.
Quite a number of Catholic priests
throughout the country severely condemn
the gambling resorted to in the Catholic
Church fairs, and especially so that in the
recent Cathedral fair in New York City.
An unfortunate quarrel mars the peace of
the Lutheran Church at Somerset, O.
The party in possession were attacked last
Sunday by the opposing faction, but with
the aid of the city marshal held their ground.
1t appears to us that some people are over
doing this thing of methodized prayer.
Laying out plans of prayers for a year or sew
eral years ahead looks as though it was o
thing capable of being ground out by ma
chinery.
! A pawn-broker in Edinburgh has 2,O0o
! family Bibles in stock. 1t is said that the
family Bible is generally the first article
/ hxrf he ho-
cause it is regarded as an ornament, and not
in lily use.
The two oldest Unitarian ministers In the
country-by ordination-are Rev. Calvin
Lincoln of bingham, Mass, and Rev. In
crease Sumner Lincoln of Wilton, n. H.,
both of whom were ordained in 1924.
Rev. James Shaw OF Rochester, in recent
sermon on the "Church of the Future, !"
said: 1.-THE day is coming, and coming soon,
| when the different denominations will begin
to take down their fences and unswing their
gates"
The Central Presbyterian has counted up
over 100 places in which the words sing
and singing are mentioned In the Bible in
connection with worship, beside 80 where
the verb, and about 40 where the noun
praise" occurs.
Dr. John Halls people RETAINED from
hanging a bell in the tower Of their church
on Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street. in
New York, and would not even suffer tbs
clock 10 strike, lest the patients in st Luke
Hospital opposite should be disturbed.
Pennsylvania church went up in q sud
den blaze, not because the fiue was defective
but because the Stove was left to itself until
it became red hot. The sexton has been dis
charged, but that is small comfort to th'
trustees of an uninsured church.
Bishop Simpson in a recent lecture said
1--WE must not De attracted by those VIII
look for the visible coming of the Lord Jesu
Christ to bring the world to Himself. hav'
some sympathy for good men who hold tina
doctrine, but none for the doctrine ITSELF
, The Rhode Island brother who recent,
enlightened his congregation on How Jonal
Lost his Umbrella now announces sermon
on THE First Prayer Meeting in He'll"
5 Wilmington brothers subject is, Shall "
: Turn our Churches into Oyster Saloons
, Fancy Bazars, Pronouncing Bees and Cheal
Theaters?"