The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-05-07
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

There are IA ordained Presbyterian min
listers and missionaries in India
During last year Il, 900 members of Sun
days-schools joined the churches in Illinois
According to four Albany clergymen
theaters and public halls are not objectlon-
able.
The late Bishop Ames of the Methodist
church, died worth quarter of a million OF
dollars. ~
The Lutheran churches of Philadelphia
received 700 communicants during the
Lenten services.
Rev. A. L. Kline, D. D., has been COM
pelled by falling health to resign the pastor
ate OF the church at Yszoo City, Miss.
In Mansfield, Ohio, seven churches of diff
ferent denominations have united to work
with and for each other in organized charity.
One sign of the hard times in England and
Wales is the falling off in marriages.. Only
1S9, ,657 were registered in 1873; in 1876 there
were 201, ,874. Nsa24n .resf 3 b
Rev. Noah NJ Wells, of Vienna, Mich, is
said to be the oldest Presbyterian minister of
the United States. He IS in his ninety
seventh year. faA -s
Macon has been selected as the place for
the next annual convention OF the Georgia
State Sunday school association, TO be held
May 80 to June 1. si
a London newspaper furnishes the curious
statement that 1856 out of 5,241 shares OF a
new brewery company IN Sheffield are held
by English clergymen.
Several of the Congregational newspapers
are in a spirited controversy as to whether
the future punishment of the wicked is to be
eternal or everlasting"
A movement has been commenced in the
of for he
class OF ministers similar to the local
preachers in the Methodist church. ssil al
Another Episcopal clergyman has joined
the Catholic church-Rev. A. j. Faust, OF
Washington. D. c. Mr.. Faust is well known
as a contributor to various periodicals.. 81
Rev. Amory Battles, of Bangor, who fol-
several years has supplied the pulpit OF the
Universalist church in Dexter, Mich, will
close his labors on the 1st of June next. ~.
DIR. Sawyer, the Universalist pastor, at
Rondout, n. Y, recently preached for Rev.
M. S. Terry pastor of the Methodist church
in that place. The courtesy is creditable to
both parties. t
Over 130 persons have been brought into
the church through the influence of the
Park Mission Sunday school of Louisville
KY, which was started Is years ago with
eight member. aa't 70 Se--a
In Mill Hill College, London, there are 81
students preparing themselves for the priest
hood, with the intention of being mission
aries to the negroes of America and the
pagans OF India. @ - D-t
Rev. DR.. Swing, of Chicago, has a teIe
phone leading from his study, with variou:
branches to the houses of intimate friends
and parishioners and does much of his 'vis
iting'' with the aid of this apparatus. istis
Eighty churches IN Detroit, Mich, aftel
5.l.t 49, h.v 1ax mil =,
all their members have resolved to lump al
their church debts into one pile, and ther
proceed to move that pile altogether.
The Friends mission in Mexico has the
''most extensive publishing house of Evan
geIical literature in the Spanish language
in all Spanish America" The headquarter,
of the mission are at Matamoras, whers
there are 100 members. III amour
Rev Jabez S. Swan, the veteran evangelist
who seemed man in middle life 40 years
ago, retains in remarkable degree, his OLD
vigor He breaches In New London, his
home, quite frequently still, and occasional
ly travels to parts beyond ~