The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-23
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RELIGIOUS NOTE AND INCIDENT.


There are s,s56 Roman Catholic Churches
and 6,402 Roman Catholic priests in the
United States.
There are 1856 Unitarian Churches in the
United States and Canada, and 40i ministers,
four of them women.
Religion is often regarded rs a sweet and
lovely" thing. Yet sweetness without
strength is far removed from Christ and
Christ's true disciples.-The Churchman.
Doubtless the cause of so many peoples
religious back-slicking is owing TO the fact
that they were moved towards religious
life by emotion rather than a deep convic-
ton, and what little of such life they had
was feeling void of principle Golden
Rule.
1t is not true, and no one claims that the
great ends of piety-reconciliation with God,
holiness, Bible knowledge, influence with
men, readiness for Heaven-are any more
surely and completely attained in one
Evangelical Church than another-The
Christian Union.
There are i'm foreign mission fields 900
ordained Protestant missionaries. OF these
200 are American, 300 British, and the re-
naming 600 are sent by Continental
Societies. These do not include lay mission
aries and helpers, nor natives, many of
whom are ordained.
If Biblical critics showed rs much persist
ence in essentials as they display flexibility
in their form of criticism, their results might
be deemed more conclusive. But their lines
of attack are ever shifting, and each new
school which arises gives the death grapple
to its predecessor-Jewish Messenger.
Bishop Spaulding, in his Lenten address
to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria,
remarks: II am not blind TO the fact that
the originators of the public school system
of this country not only had no irreligious
intention. but were for the most part pro-
foundry convinced of the truth of Christi
anity. The purely secular character of the
Public Schools is the result of circumstances
and not of deliberate purpose; and its
justification is sought for in grounds of ex-
pediency and not in principle.
So far, therefore, as the matter Gntemper-
ance) is one of hereditary tendency there is
a scale of degeneracy which runs thus: Mod
crate drinking drunkenness. mental imbe-
cility and idiocy. II is not pleasant look
even from the upper steps of this stairway
And if this is a true statement of the case,
rs we believe il is there is something here
which will bear to be thought of when pleas
for modern drinking are prominently put
forth before the public.-The Congrega-
tionalist.
The Methodist Recorder braces up the
weak thus: at is a weakness of some peo-
pie to dislike to be laughed at. They will
shrink from what they know TO be their
duty; they will let opportunities for good
pass by; they will lose the pleasure of being
useful they will miss the JOY of helping
others, for fear they may be laughed at.
They are to be pitied. To think that they
will let the laugh of some poor giggler, who
aspires to nothing but making fun, rob them
of happiness they might enjoy, only for fear
of ridicule! How we long 10 give them
stamina, to whisper in their ear that all
good persons have, at some time in their
lives, been laughed at, bat, BY not needing
the laugh, and pushing on bravely, they
have attained positions of usefulness and
honor