The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-19
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

And having nothing, yet hath all.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
In England and Wales there are 6, 100000
sittings in all the churches.
Nebraska has now AZ Presbyterian churches,
IA of which were built last year.
Rev. E. Talbot, of Missouri, has call to
st. Andrew Episcopal church, Chicago.
The first church almanac in America was
published by William Bradford in 1704.
There are in the whole world, according
to careful estimate. only 6,50S. 900 Jews.
In the cathedral at Bristol. England, the
electric light has proved dazzling success.
In London, England, the Sunday-schools
number S14, with Is. SCI teachers and 23O,O84
scholars.
The two churches in Madison, o., have
been holding daily union meetings since
January 3.
The Methodist church at South Attica,
Mich, reports 142 converts as the result of a
weeks revival.
The Methodist School of Theology at Evan
ston, ILL.,, will graduate its first lady student
this coming spring.
The young ladies of Plymouth church,
Cleveland. are successfully operating free
kindergarten school.
All denominations in Germany furnish
total of GIT Sunday-schools, S,325 teachers
and 162, 251 scholars.
Kansas Congregationalists are tryiIg to
raise S., 900 for home missions by contri bu-
ton of 81 per member.
The United States sends $50 missionaries
to foreign lands. Germany more than 500,
and Great Britain ,000
The Presbyterian board of relief for disa-
bied ministers has distributed during the
last 26 years over 81 ,000,00O
A CONGREGATIONAL church IN Illinois has
rejected candidate for its pulpit on the
sole ground that he used tobacco.
Religious people in Minnesota are moving
for s'Martha's Vineyard" of their own, at
Minnetonka, White Bear or Lake Pepin.
On a recent Sabbath all the saloons and
rumshops in Richmond, Va, were closed,
for the first time in the history of the city.
The Baptist Woman's Home Mission
union of Chicago, gave away $4,000 last year.
and promises to double that sum this year.
The Presbyterian Theological seminary of
Chicago maintains five professors to IS stu
dents-dear for students, or cheap for pro-
fessors.
The amount appropriated for the work of
lining with mosaics the dome of st. PauPs
cathedral, London, is $3.50, 900. The subjects
will be taken from the Apocalypse.
The injunction of Rev. MIR. Pentecost, the
evangelist, to the women of Chicago not to
pray in public meetings of his holding, has
lost to him all womanly aid and dampened
general ardor.
At Omaha the congregation hes entirely
outgrown the wooden cathedral of the Epis-
copal church. and Bishop Clarkson has been
Wis nf
nent structure.
the monks and nuns, now only 40 or 30 in
number, and to apply their property,
amounting to some So 600, 600 to the reduc-
ton of the national debt.
The diocese of New York, with its 195
parishes and "a S03 communicates is the
largest diocese in the Protestant Episcopal
church, and Dakota with eight parishes and
31S communicates is the smallest.
DR.. Vincent will start Pullman train
from Chicago, June 2, for his new camp
meeting grounds in the Yosemite valley. to
be absent 80 days, Bishop Simpson ard
Joseph Cook to bear him company.
As the result OF IL years work in Texas
Northern MethodisIn now counts IA, 207
members, 2, 467 practitioners, 30S local and
221 travelling preachers, ia churches and
III Sunday-schools with Ii SD scholars.
Pope Leo XIII. has issued an order pro-
hibiting the sale of relics. The order says
the traffic in relics has produced great scan
dial, and must be put down. The faithful
are not permitted even to redeem relics that
are known to be genuine.
Rev. A. H. Smith, of the North China
Presbyterian mission, writes that he is about
to baptiZe 100 or more persons in one of the
country district OF the mission. In another
village more than 800 are calling earnestly
for the missionaries to lead them into the
Christian faith.
The Low Church party in Dublin have
begged Mr.. Roe, the great distlller, who has
so magni6cently restored Christ Church ca
thedral to concur in the removal of the rood
screen, which shocks their advanced Protest.
antism. Mr.. Roe emphatically declines to
be any party to such course.
At the Boston Methodist ministers meet
ing on the 9th q chair made from the Old
Elm, which was blown down on the Boston
commons few years since, was presented tc
the ASSOCIATION. 1t was under the Old Elm
that Jesse Lee made his first convert &c
Aethodism in Boston 81 years ago last July
The "Spurgeon Bazaar lately held in
London, to commemorate the quarter cen
tury of Mr.. Spurgeon's pastorate, yielded
about $50, 600, which will be invested fol
benevolent purposes. MI. Spurgeon hai
left England for Mentone, to be absent fol
three months, if thereby his health may b,
regained.
Rev. Noah NJ. Wells, residing at Vienna
Mich, is said to be the Oldest Presbyterian
minister in the United States. He is nov
in his 9th year, having been born in 1871
was in the ministry and somewhat promin
INT in the year 1872 His ministerial lift
vas largely spent in Western New York, AND
alter in Michigan.
The Texas Christian Advocate has yer,
serious concern lest Bishop Gilbert Haven
of the Methodist Episcopal church north
shall not land IN Heaven because of the falls
statements he is now publishing about tn
Lone Star State. The Advocate calls him q
frebrand and disgrace to Northern Metho
dism, and not fit to sit at meat with Christian
and truthful people,"