The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-21
kELIGIOUs INrELLIGENCE AND Incl
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The Presbyterian Church in Texas, ac-
cording TO the census of 1880, foots up b..
600 members; the Methodists have 157 600
the Catholics 10000, and the Baptists 1885,.
600.
The Religious Tract Society of England
distributes Its publications in 142 Languages
The total circulation from the Home depo,
has reached over 100000, and the issues
from foreign depots are estimated at IA ,OOO,.
600.
The Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board
has spent S592,0O0 in the past year. 1t has
now accepted thirty new missionaries,
mostly young men. Expecting q great in
crease of work this year, it asks for an addi-
100000 above customary receipts.
1t is a comment on so-called Liberal
ism" that in the town of Liberal, on the
borders of Missouri, lots are sold only to
such persons as renounce the doctrines OF
Christianity. This does not seem to provide
for the exercise of the very largest liberty
of thought.
The recent invitation to Colonel Rober;
6. Ingersoll to deliver the address in New
York City on that day Decoration Day
was nothing less than a public indecency.
To have asked Mr.. Delegate
Cannon. of Utah. to preside over meeting
in behalf of the purity OF the home would
have been less sa, ire than this.@TThe
Sunday. School Times.
King John, the monarch who rules Abys-
sinia with q rod of iron, is severely opposed
10 missionaries. He has bsnisbed party
of them who recently arrived at Massowah
These missionaries had distributed some BIZ
hles to the natives, but, under the influence
ofthe native priests, King John caused search
to. be made for these in the houses and huts
In cases where copies Of the Bible were
found the owners were chained and other
wise treated with great cruelty.
A California Baptist brother presented for
the use of the presiding officer at the recent
Baptist anniversaries in New York City a
magnificent gavel made of oak from Flori-
ds, holly from Mississippi, granite from
Maine, mahogany from Nevad,, cedar from
Alaska. laurel, maple and redwood from
California. 1t was ornamented with silver
from California and Nevada. 1t was ac-
cepted as timely and tasteful symbol of
State brotherhood and National unity.
The United Presbyterians are by no
means united on the instrumental music
questson, which was supposed to De nearly
settled. At their General Assembly in
Monmouth, ILL.,, very earnest protest was
presented against the adoption of the ma
jority report on this question. 1t was
signed by about forty members. These
brethren are firmly set in their ways, and
are of the old kind, whose forefathers have
from time to time seeded when anything
went contrary to their prejudlces and de-
sires.
The Archbishop of Quebec is exception
ely severe, as is well known, on the follies
of society and exegincies of fashion, more
especially those relating to the toilet of the
weaker sex. To lukewarm Catholics, who
are inclined to view with disfavor the more
Ultramontane doctrines Of the Church, the
Archbishop read severe lesson few Sun
days ago in mandement, read in all the
Roman Catholic Churches in the Province,
which prohibits the faithful from entering
too freely into the amenities Of life with
Proteetsnts; from attending Protestant
Churches and Protestant marriages, from
acting as pail bearers at the Protestant tune
rails, or, in fact, from attending Protestant
funerals