The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-05-21
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Forty-nine new members joined Beecher's
church recently.
Twenty-four Lutheran ministers died in
this country last year.
The American Episcopal church has now
20 congregations in Mexico.
The Bible nowhere commands doubling,
but 1t does insist upon belief.
Nebraska has 135 Baptist churches, about
one-half of them self-supporting.
A revival in Woolwich, Me-, has resulted
in between one and two hundred conver-
slons.
A warm, kind word is wonderful inspira-
ton, or comforting balm, to a sensitive
heart.
The Imperial Government in China has
ordered the closing of the Buddhist nun
neries.
Forty.seven revivals are reported in Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana, and upward OF 600
converts.
There are $50 churches In Burmah, and
ninetenths of the work is done by native
teachere.
Rev. N. E. Presley has gone to Mexico to
establish mission of the Associate Presby-
terian church.
Rev. E. R. Atweil, rector of st. Paul's
church at Burlington, VT, has fallen heir to
from $780, TO $4,000.
Rev. Charles D. Lathrop has won his libel
suit against the Springfield Republican, the
jury finding 81 600 damages.
Rev. W. NJ. Barrows, of Salt Lake City, is
East in the interest of good morals, good
education and good religion in Utah.
Last year there were between $4,000 and
10000 pilgrims to Mecca, larger number
&l,<.- 1rr aovrfw
Rev. Mr. Crowninshield has accepted the
call of the Unitarian church in Belfast, Me-,
and expects to begin his labors the 1st of
June.
Twenty-three colored persons were bap.
tised IN the Harlem river last Sunday. 1t is
estimated that 5000 spectators surveyed the
process.
IlRev. Charles D. Helmer, pastor of the
Tompkins Avenue Congregational church,
. Brooklyn. n. Y, died at Lockport, N. Y,
last week.
At San Francisco James ONeil, who acted
the part of "Christ' in the recent Passion
play, has been arrested, tried and convicted
of misdemeanOr.
The doctrine of eternal punishment is now
put forth as 1.-The certainty of an unalterable
retr1bution to the chronic reflector of the
Gospel" "Chronic reflector" Is good!
At BuftaIo Lake, Dakota, there Is q Pres
byterian church of 55 members, all full
blooded Dakota Indians, with Eev. Maza
wacanayana, or Iron Thunder, as pastor.
The following is an epitaph on tomb
stone in New England burying ground:
"Little Greenie's gone to rest,
Fold her legs across her breast"
1t has taken 56 years to repair and restor'
the interior of the Cathedral at Rouen
France. The scaffoldidg has Just been re
moved, after remaining in position for al
this time.
The students and faculty of the Hampton
Institute, Virginia, contributed recently
$2,700 to the American Church Missionary
association, after sermon by Superintend-
ent ]. 4. Roy.
A memorial window to Bishop Heber, thu
author of the hymn, "From Greenland's Ic,
Mountains," ls soon to be set up in tn
church at Malpas, Cheshire, the parish il
which he was born.
The Biennial Conference of the Evangell
cal alliance of the United States will be held
IN st. Louis, October %, 1879. There will b
addresses on topics under Christian doc
trine, Christian life and Christian work.
Over 100 persons have become members @
Father Hvacinthe's Gallicsn church, an
Professionalism seems to be gaining strengt
in France with astonishing rapidlty. Case
of conversion are becoming frequent.