The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-10
RELIGIOUS INrELLIGENCE AND INCL
DENT.

The subject of abandoning the itinersnt
system will come up at the General Nj. L.
Conference in 1884.
The Bible is wholly put into eight Afri-
can tongues, and partly into thirty-four
more, and the thirty fifth is being prepared
for.
A Chinamsn, dying of consumption in
Chicago, erected al alter in his laundry,
and worked before it, with his face to the
east, as long as he was able to wash at all.
The Christian Index advises Church
members to initiate the Master, and say
swell done" to their pastors when they do
well. This is good advice, and should be
carried into general practice.
1t is most certain, and proved by expert
ence, that slight draughts of philosophy
may by chance give an impulse toward
atheism, but that deeper drinking of the
same brings the mind back to religion.
We do not agree with Professor Phelps
when he says tina. clergymen weep to con-
ceal the thin points in their sermons, for if
they did there would be a great deal more
weeping in the pulpit than there is now.
We need gospel for the poor that shall
go to them with food for the soul in one
hand and food for the body in the, other.
The religion of the helping hand is the only
one that will save our great cities from re-
lapsing into barbarism.-W. K. Hunting
ton.
Two Methodist missionaries in South
America have assembled the Parana River
to Cuysba, 2,072 miles from Montevideo,
In some places they encountered hindrances
and hardships, but in most places found
great facilities for evsngelizing those interi-
or regions.
At Melrose, Mass, a new plan has been
tried as to the eatables at the Church socia-
bles. 1t had been the custom of the ladies
to contribute the food and 10 serve it. Now
it falls to the lot of the male members.
Clumsy fellows some of them are at serving
tables, yet they proved to be liberal givers
as regards quantity. They provided with
out that delicate attention to proportion
which is generally shown when the ladies
are responsible for q repast OF some arti-
cles there was a great excess, while others
were almost entirely omitted. The waiting
on the tables was done in q very thorough
manner, and indeed somewhst forcefully
when two or three of the waiting brethren
would Unexpectedly come into collision
while carrying eatables and drinkables
The ladies enjoyed the fun of being served
by the men on whom they had often wait
ed.
In an article on presbyterian Drift" the
Churchman says: ''The nots Bile thing about
the present drift is that the Presbyterians
are reaching out, not so much for the Prayer
Book alone, as for the sympsthies or spir-
itual atmosphere in which liturgical wor-
ship can be organized and maintained. The
restlessness comes from an increasing sympa-
thy with the universal Christian Church.
The aspiration of Presbyterians are for the
usages and customs and prayers in which
they find the best expression of their religi-
Gus life. The drift, so far AS it can as yet
be distinctly traced, is one of many signs
that the mission of the Episcopal Church in
America for more than two centuries is
gradually coming to be better understood,
and that the great principle which the
Church has unswervingly held TO, loyalty
to apostolic order not separated from faith.
fulness to modern life, is the principle
towards which unfettered and youthful
minds are moving in all the different re-
ligious bodies, and notably so in that which
calls itself Presbyterian. In this drift there
Is not only encouragement for the Church
as an institution, but encouragement fer the
best interests 81 positive religion i'll Ameri.
ca"