The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-19
RELIGIOUS ROTES.

Spurgeon has preached 1, 452 sermons.
Henry Ward Beecaer lips the beam at 2l9
pounds.
Ingersolls lectures are spoken of as hell
fire extinguishers.
Mr.. Beecher says he would shoot a burg
lar. Is religion failure?
The Presbyterian General Assembly meets
this year at Saratoga Springs.
The Southern Baptist convention is to meet
in Atlanta on the Sth of May.
A colored brother is chaplain of the Ala
bama House of Representatives.
Iowa Baptists last year contributed but
$50 in aid of ministerial students.
Rsvivals are reported from many Western
towns, chiefly in Ohio and Illinois.
The new Cardinal Newman will be nearly
10 years of age when his red hat arrives.
Have you been abroad ?-don't talk too
much about it, especially from the pulpit
A Chinese missionary says that it is easier
to convert Chinaman at home than in this
country.
AGerman Reformed minister banned Cans,
in Baltimore, has gone over to the Roman
Catholic church.
The whole number of churches and mis-
sions in New York City is 4S9. OF this num-
Der 1896 are Protestant.
The Catholic bishops of st. Hyacinthe and
Ottawa sailed together from Liverpool for
Canada on Ash Wednesday.
A Buffalo minister has been preaching on
sfThe People we Kick" There were several
heads and an application, and it was booti-
full discourse.
A colporteur OF the American Bible society
in Missouri says he found some young men
of the age of Is or 20 years who seemed to
know nothing about the Bible.
The bishop of Louisville. KY. has pro
hibited any more religious services over the
dead in houses or churches They must be
performed hereafter at the graves.
A convention of Methodist Iaymen, of
Brooklyn, who favor removal of the Inn
itations to the Methodist pastorate, is to be
held soon in Simpson church, in that city.
The Sunday-school assembly which is pro-
posed for next June in the Yosemite valley,
is to be managed by DR.. J. II. Vincent, and
will be opened on the first Sunday in tina.
month.
The Missouri Baptists regard water as es-
sential only for three purposes-namely, fol-
navigation, irrigation and immersion. They
use other fluids exclusively for drinking
purposes.
Dean Stanley writes to an American friend
that wreath OF autumn leaves from the
Hudson, which he placed on Andres monu-
ment III Westminster abbey, attracts uniyer-
sal admiration.
One of the finestpuns was made by Erskine.
Seeing an old tea chest, he wrote on it the
Latin inscription, s'Tu doces" This bit OF
classic lore, when properly translated, means
''Thou teachest."
Methodists and Baptists were pioneers IL
Iowa at the same time. WblIe the former
now number 10 600 members, the latter have
only %, 000 and 113 of their churches are
said to be without pastors.
The bishop of Mon real has signed circu
lar forbidding ladies to belong to church
ehoirs after the 1st of June next. Many
Catholic churches have anticipated the ordel
by dismissing lady singers.
Mrs. Bishop Simpson, and many othel
Methodist ladies OF Philadelp hia, are active
ly enesgsd in the work of founding an Or
phanags, and are vigorously at work prepar
ing for a fair, to be held in its interest