The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Read the 146th Psalm. 1t is the crusade
psalm of the temperance women.
Miss Frances E. Willard is doing grand
work in the ranks of temperance reform.
The Methodist congregation at Blooming
ton, Ind, will soon build q new church.
A German writer has calculated that the
exact day OF Christs death was Friday, April
3, in the year 80.
A very valuable painting of Christ has
been stolen from the Church of Campo de
Criptana, in Andalusia.
Last month reputed witch was nailed up
in her hut and burned alive by peasants in
the Province of Novgorod.
Fisk University. at Nashville. Tenn, has
just received $4,000 from the Stone estate,
through Rev. W. b. Wilcox
Heresy appears to be becoming epidemic
among clergymen. DIR. Bullock, of 0swego
n. Y, is the latest victim led to the slaugh-
ter.
Four pastorates in the Massachusetts, town
of Walthsm are now vscant-the Congrega
tonalist the Methodist the Unitarian and
the Baptist.
The Lutherans are collecting funds on
what they term the Peters Pence Plan," an
imitation of that pursued in the Roman
Catholic church
Rev. Dr. William Butler founder and
superintendent of the Methodist mission In
Mexico, has been compelled by failing health
to leave that field.
1t is said that DIR. Edward Eggleston has
dramatized the Pilgrims Progress, and is
gong to have it performed in the pariors of
his Brooklyn church.
London newspaper furnishes the curious
and surprising statement that 1, SS5 out of
5.24l shares in a new brewery company in
Sheffield are held by English clergymen.
There are no less than Ito vacant parishes
in the Catholic dioceses of Munster and Linn
burg, Germany, and they can not be filed
except by compliance with the Falk laws.
Rev. DR.. 1. G. Hubbard, of Claremont, N.
H., 60 years old, was obliged to dismiss his
congregation Sunday week, and died while
returning home in sleigh, OF heart disease.
A Jewish ex-rabbi, near Berlin, has cele-
brated his iron wedding on the 10th ami
versary of his marriage. He is in his 93d
year, and SO of his las descendants attended
the festival.
The king OF Belgium has expressed his
thanks to the Church Missionary society for
the assistance given to the Belgian explorers
in Africa, by missionary of the society
DR.. Baxter.
The NonconformIst ministers of Great
Britain have, alter consultation, declared
that the time has come for the disestablish-
Inent of the Church of Scotland, and that 1T
ought to be made political question.
Rev. DIR. David Swing has telephone
leading from his study, with various branches
to the houses of intimate friends and par
ishicnera He does much of his pastoral
visiting with the aid of this apparatus.
The venerable Dr. Bushnell, of the Gaboon
Mission in Africa is looking among the
theological seminaries for three or four
young men who will go with him to enter
on missionary work when he returns in
August.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll offers TO give
$1,000 at once and half of his income for the
next Eve years. if necessary, in aid of the
negro emigrants to the West. If this be
true, we believe that the devil may slip up
on Bob yet.
Iceland is cold land, but it is full of reii-
gious warmth. All its inhabitants are Luz
therans. There is a Bible IN every home,
and it is faithfully read. AS q natural Sc
quence, iceland has 40 theater, prison, sher-
if, cannon or militia.
Bishop Spalding, of Colorado, writes from
Denver an appeal for financial assistance in
the work of the coming year. The work will
be greater than ever before owing to the
large immigration expected during the spring
and coming summer.