The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18
CHURCH AND PULPIT.

According TO the highest authority IL IS
strictly orthodox to do good on Sunday.
A short sermon, right to the point, is bet
ter than a long sermon without the point.
Under whose preaching were you con-
verted?" said man to his friend. No
body's," was the answer at was under
my aunt's practicing."
Rev. DR.. Field argues ably for more prac-
teal preaching. He says that ''how to live
SO as to get the most and highest satisfaction
out of this world, and be best fitted for an
endless life in Heaven, is the problem for
which people everywhere look to religion for
a solution" But, unfortunately, few of them
lind it in the religion presented in most of
the churches.
A London Catholic newspaper states that
in the year 1879 1000 persons renowned
Professionalism in England and became Ro-
man Catholics. 1t also says that seventeen
out of every twenty of them were prepared
for the step under ritualistic teaching.
Bishop Coke, IN recently-publshed pa
per, speaks of persons who. with ieweled fin
gers, will give ten cents to foreign missions,
and then sing:
Glove amazing, so divine.
Demands my heart, my life, my ALL"
The Churchman fears that the Bishop has
put the sum contributed too high.
paul Taking up Collections" is the topic
of a correspondent of the Religious Herald,
who SAYS: ale did not like o.have to do
the money gathering in person. So he asked
the churches to have their contributions all
ready when he should come to them. 1t is
clear that this is the best way still. Money
that is thus given is given without any ex-
element, or over persuasion, or emulation,
or outside pressure"
The Independent, commenting on what it
calls the "Dr. Tanners of Religion" says ne
is attempting a piece of consummate folly.
'The experiment is not worth the suffering
and danger. There is no advantage to be
gained from it. The profit is nothing; the
danger of death is terrible. The Dr. Tan
ners of religion are yet more consumMate
fools. They lose the pleasures of real life
and they risk utter and eternal DEATH
During the reign of Plus TX. thirty new
dioceses were created in the United States
At the opening of this century there was
| but one diocese here; now there are sixty.
one, besides seven vicariates apostolic. The
| Catholic population is 6,143 Do, ruled by
sixty-seven bishops and archbishops, anc
| $3.50 priests, who minister in q, 407 churche:
and chapels; l ,lS6 students were in theologi
cal seminaries last spring, and 4O5, 234 pu.
pills in parochlai schools.
Time has not diminished the claims o.
John Wesley to the admiration of his fol.
lowers, and in some respects it has added tC
| his claims in the eyes of the world at Sarge
! All admit him to have been a reforEoer Of
morals and a reviver of religion; but he also
anticipated in very extraordinary manner
that reconstruction of society which may be
called the chief characteristic of the present
age. 1t was Wesley who, after many years
of patient working on the old university and
| church lines, formed the local and national
| association for moral and religious purposes
Religious combination, whether within local
limits or on a scale to cover the world, was
the essence of his movement, which he hoped
against hope, and to the end of his days,
would embrace all the faiths and all the
forms of which there could be any expecta-
tion.-London Times.
Rev. Theodore Cuyler has the courage to
say an honest word for the Roman Catholics.
He says: "Let us be thankful for their Fa-
ther Mathew temperance societies, for their
sisterhoods of charity, and for the effective
protests which their bishops have made
against agrarianism, labor riots and Kearney-
ism. DR.. Hodge very wisely said that 'Ro-
Idnlsul Is vastly DttLer lnun TatioudiisH anu
skepticism. 1 have far more respect for a
sincere Papist who holds TO the plenary in
spiration of the word, the divinity of Jesus
Christ and the doctrine of future retribu-
tions, than l. have for certain Protestant
ministers who are loose on many vital points
of theology, and constantly betraying the
cause of orthodox religion, which they are
sworn to defend. Weak-backed representa-
tives of orthodoxy are more miscellaneous than
open opposers. BE something or nothing,
only somethingish.'"