The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

force are what keep the world going.
The uses of adversely may possibly be very
sweet, and yet no one wishes to find out
what they are.
Mr. Sankey was announced to sail from
England on the 18th of July, Ito join Mr..
Moody for the autumn and winter campaign
in America"
SIT is a singular fact" observes the Catho-
lie Mirror, ''that many criminals seem to be
drawn toward the Catholic church when all
earthly hope has left them"
Religion gives you a creed as kind of
ladder up which you may climb to noble
life. Too many people, however put tAe
ladder up and then sit on the ground.
Time goes at its own gait and you can not
hasten it by using 1.-The spur of the mo-
ment." You may ask your friend to stop
a minute" but neither you nor he has the
power to do it.
Five hundred French-Canadians have
gone from Rhode Island on pilgrimage to
the shrine of st. Anne de Beaupre, on the
shore of the st. Lawrence. near Quebec.
Are there no saints in New England?
A man may have many sorrows and bear
them serenely; he may lose q fortune and
become contented with poverty; he may
even look upon his rival in the affections of
a wealthy match with wild despair.
The United Presbyterian church of Scot
land supports nine missions, located in the
West Indies South Africa, India, China,
Japan and Spain and adjacent islands. 1t
has mission to Jews in Algiers which is
represented as very successful.
It is estimated that over 100000 colored
people have been added to the Methodist
church since the war. They have caused
more than a thousand churches to be built,
and more than 5000 colored young men are
in their aid schools in the South.
Prosecutions of Protestants still continue
in Spain. Two Protestant missionaries In
Virgo visiting Morgadeores, recently, were
set upon by mob headed by three priests
and almost stoned to death, escaping, with
severe wounds, in a carriage. other mis-
sionaries have been warned off at other
places under threats.
The Lutheran church 80 years ago had
only few scattered people in this country
west of the Ohio. Now it numbers in the
same region 81 synods 1,702 ministers, 30O1
churches and 367, 180 communicates. In
there were only "a Lutheran ministers The
present number is 3.150, with $500 congre-
cations and I25, 900 COMMITMENTS.
A good colored man once said IN class
meeting: 'Bredren, when was a boy l took
q Ratchet and went into de woods When /
found tree dat was straight big and solid,
I didn't touch dat tree, but when l found
d
soon had him down. &c. when de deDil gets
after Christians he don't touch dem OATS
straight and true, but dem dat lean little
and are hollow inside"
The Baptist Missionary Union has in
creased its total of members in Europe and
Asia enormously during the past ecclesias-
teal year. 1t reports no less than 80 AIS
members in its mission stations clear gain
of 13, $50 Its greatest gain was In India,
among them,the TeloogoOs, Is. 537. In Bur-
NAH 1t has 20, S11 members and in Europe il
has AZ, OO9 members. Il employs 141 mis-
sionaries and 9S4 native preachers.
Since 1870, when the Irish Established
church (EpiscopaD became disestablished,
the people OF that communion have raised
over $4,000, 900 for church support. The
salaries of the poorer clergy have been
greatly increased. and the church has ex-
tended its field of operations as never before.
So that dlsestablishment has advanced rather
than retarded the progress of the church.
No doubt the like results will follow the dis
establishment in England.
The Baptist Weekly asks: How can 9
summer vacation be prevented from work
ing evil to the religious ife2' The practice
of being sure that you have enough bait
every morning before you start will help
nightly. Nothing so tends to demoralizs
the religious life of the average man as te
find as he sits fishing, four miles from the
hotel, and at time when the fish are biting
well, that the bait is all out and he mus
fam return for more.-Albany Evening Jour
nal.
A German paper publishes a column o
Roman Catholic statistics for the world
The grand total is 216.OOO, OOO distributed
among the continents as follows: Europe
153, Az, 900; America, 81, 400, 900; ASIA 167,
600; Africa, 1,695.OOO Australia, 65O,OO0
OF the countries, France leads with Catho
lie population OF 36. 405 900; Austria Hun
gary comes next with %, 357, 600; Italy third
with q ,942, 900; Spain fourth, with Is 912,
600, and Germany fifth, with 1880, 900
The United States is credited with 5000, OOO
about 100000 more than is claimed b.
American Catholics- Brazil has 10. 800, 900
British America. 100000. Professo
Schem, of this country, gives the total Q
Catholic population at 200 000, 900, som
1000, 600 less than the German statisticiar
He gives the total Protestant population a
lib. 700, 600, and that of the Eastern churche
at sc, 600 900. From this it appears that tn
Roman Catholics still outnumber ali othe
Christians combined
The Workings of Great Firm.
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