The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

A very fine Presbyterian churcn Is IN pro-
gress at Minneapolis, Mimi.
There are in Paris l, 754 900 Catholics, 81
900 Lutherans and Caivinists and % 500
Jews.
The Baptist Publication society is now
out of debt, the $40, 900 deficiency having
been raised.
The Universalist church at Auburn, Me-.
has closed half century Of its existence,
and recently commemorated the event.
The Lake Bluff association, near Chicago,
is proposing to go into camp for temperance
June "a; Sunday school assembly July 16.
Baron Rothschild holds mortgage on the
whole of Palestine as security for his loan
of 200 900 600 francs to the Turkish Govern
ment.
A new religious sect has arisen in West
phalia- It is composed principally of wo-
men, who hold doctrines much like those of
the Shakers. ISL fE
Two crosses were placed on the roof of the
Congregational church at Fair Haven, Conn.
So much disturbance was raised about them
that they had to be taken down.
Mr.. Kimball does not always succeed in
his efforts to cancel church debts. At the
State Street Methodist Episcopal church,
Springfield, Mass, he utterly failed.
The Standard of the Gross protestant
Episcopal) says there are 228 converts from
Judaism among the clergymen and mission
ares of the Protestant Episcopal church.
The college of bishops. the book committee
and board of missions of the Southern Meth
odist church will hold their annual meetings
in Nashville, Tenn, in the second week in
May.
a novel event in Cambridge, Mass, Ro-
man Catholic church. the other day, was q
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The subject of the lecture was ''Froude's Ire
land from Protestant Standpoint
The Evangelical alliance of the United
States will hold its coming biennial session
in st. Louis, opening October %, 1879. LIS
st. Louis branch thinks the dIsuse of the
catechism is a serious loss to Sunday schools.
The New England conference has taken
strong action against holding camp meetings
on Sundays. 1t regards these places as the
resort of vain and ungodly persons who
want to make day of frolic of what ought
to be day of rest.
A young Japanese, 15 years OF age, who
converted to Roman Catholicism, at Lyons,
France, where he was baptized, confirmed.
and given his first communion on the same
day, with great pomp and ceremony, by the
archbishop.
The question OF erecting Protestant Epis-
copal cathedral in New York is revived,
attention being called to it by the completion
of the Roman Catholic cathedral and by the
fact that Bishop Potter will have completed
his quarter century in the episcopate of the
diocese next November.
President McCosh has fears of decline in
the minis.eria supply of the Presby ter1an
church. He says the three younger classes
in Princeton College contain an unusually
small number OF students who intend to
enter the ministry. He thinks it time that
the church should be aroused.
A branch of the old elm tree on Boston
Common (recently blown DOWN has been
seized by the Methodists of that city and
converted into q good sized armchair, large
enough to accommodate even Bishop Peck
whenever be shall preside over the New
England conference. 1t has been presented
to the preachers meeting of Boston.
The most prosperous church in the Long
Island association is the Greenwood Baptist
church. Brooklyn, Rev. A. A. Lawson, pastor.
The church is q years old, Mr.. Lawson being
pastor for IL years past, during which time
the membership has increased by the baptism
of 1872 persons, and is now 547 strong. Three
Sunday schools, with 70 teachers and 800
scholars, are in operation.
It Is rumored on good authority that the
pope has decided to confer q cardinals hat
on the venerable distinguished patriot and
divine, Archbishop McHale, of Tuam, Ire
land the Lion of the Fold" as O'Connell
styled him. This is an honor most worthily
deserved by one who for half a century ha,
in the hearts of the Irish people.