The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-18
RELIGIOUS NOTE AND ANECDOTE.

Moody preached 275 times in Baltimore.
Few people have as strong teacher as
Jonah, 1t was the whale that brought him
up.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer has Just formally en-
tered the Episcopal church, having been
confirmed at st. Johns, in Washington.
A minister can't live on anticipation or
promises. If the Gospel of Jesus Christ IS
worth anything, it is at least worth the price
of the support of the herald who pro-
claims it.
That famous New Orleans church order
prohibiting colored churches from being
open after 10 O'Clock at night-has been re-
scinded, as it should. 1t ought never to have
been issued.
The minister who never calls on his people
unless they are so sick that he thinks they
are going to die, carries with him the atmos-
phere of the undertaken rather than of the
pastor and friend.
The sermon ought to be in one respect like
Sam Weller's love letter. Sans father
asked him why he brought that document to
such a sudden and unexpected conclusion.
Sam answered: Zoos, to make her wish there
Vos more"
At the recent Minnesota State Sunday
School convention DIR. ]. II. Vincent ex-
pressed his conviction that there was mo
place like home for teaching religion" and
quoted the old Scotch proverb: IAN ounce
of mother is worth pound of clergy!'
A negro preacher described hell as ice
cold, where the wicked frozs to all eternity.
Asked why, he said: "'Cause / don't dare
tell dem people muffin else. Why, if / say
hell is warm, some OF dem old rheumatic
niggers be wantin' start down der de very fus'
fros'."
The next General conference of the Evan
gellcal alliance is to be held in Basic,
Switzerland, to open August 81, 1879, and
continue till the 9TH day OF September.
Members and friends of the alliance going
abroad next summer will find 1t very pleas
ant to be in Switzerland at that time.
The Methodist General conference next
year will have to settle whether bishops
shall be elected in place OF those who have
died since 10, when the last election was held
Since then, when eight bishops were chosen,
Bishops Morris, james and Ames have passed
away, leaving only 10 to Go the episcopal
work OF large church.
There died in Stephentewn, N, Y, June
6, Rev. Elanthna Sweet, in the eighty-thlrd
year of his age. He began preaching at the
age of IS years, and thencefoward until the
time of his death was engaged in dissemln
ating the Gospel. He occupied the Baptis
pulpit at Stepentown for more than 4Oyears
and he read the Bible through 65 times.
The order of Sisters of Charity who con
duct the Home for Destitute Children in
Boston number 10000 throughout the
world. They were the first, and for man,
wears the Only, religious community tina
ventured to labor in Boston after the Ursu
lines dishesrtened by the destruction of the
convent ON Mount Benedict, quilted it for
ever.
At the beginning of this century the Turk
lsh Government allowed only 300 Jews t.
live within the city of Jerusalem. Within
the last 10 years all restrictions have beer
removed, and now there are over LIZ, 900 in
habiting their ancient capital. They hay
bought up the old houses and built a larg
number of new, and have established schools
and hospitals.
They have some queer clergymen in En-
gland. One at Gloucester requested his can
didates for confirmation to retire to thei
closets and write down all the sins they ha'
committed since their fifth year for his e1
animation. Several seem to have complied
but the parents of the other children were 8
disguised with the assumption that the
took them away from the class.
There died at New Haven, Conn.,, o.
Monday, at the age of SO years, Miss Mar
Hand the lasttsurviving daughter of Geners
Howard Hand, an officer of the Continents
army. Miss Hand was, In early life, til
friend and confidant OF Rev. DIR. Mullen
berg, and connected with the unhapp
romance which gave to the world the beaut
full hymn, 81 would not live Away"