The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND INCL
DENT.

Of English speaking people, 10. 500 600
are Roman Catholics and 100000 Prot
estanps.
A church pew was lately advertised in
Rochester commanding beautiful view of
the entire congregation"
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the
General Association of Congregational Min
listers and Churches of Indiana will be held
in Michigan City May 1912.
The Presbyterian Synods now conform to
State lines. That of Pennsylvania thesds
the list with 131 ,054 communications; that
of New York has 1870 374; Ohio has 6S 1876;
New jersey, 45957; Illinois, AZ 2sG; In
diana, % 6TS; Iowa, 20 812.
Agreeable all around: 81 purpose intro
ducing some new features into the service"
said Rev. Mr.. Textual. "All right" re-
marked Fogg. Anew features in that pull
pit are just what have been longing for
the last year or two"
In the first decade of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church there was one minister to
every 100 members; in the fifth decade the
proportion was one to 2S4. The present
proportion is one minister to lat members,
against 142 in the ninth and tenth de-
cades.
The Christian Advocate, mention ing the
Gaze of an Irish girl who said she joined the
Methodist Church "on suspicion" tor six
months, says: "We don't know about the
propriety of taking people into the Church
on suspicion, but we think a considerable
number might be LET out on that ground"
The Baptist Ministers Conference, OF
Boston, by a vote of eighteen to twelve, has
protested against the continuance OF the
modern political or civil fast days as pro-
claimed by the Governor. One great OBJ
lection is that like Christmas and other holi-
DAYS, it has been of late years, turned into
a season of drinking, carousing and general
vice.
Said the pastor: "We never used 10 get
any money in the contribution box, but
lately 1 have arranged to have two or three
of our most prominent men and pretty girls
stand in the vestibule while the people come
in, SO they can see who put the money in,
and the box is doing quite we'll" 1t takes
a business man to run Church as well as
circus.-Boston Post.
1t is gratifying proof of modern toler-
ance that when the Church of the Incarna-
ton, of New York, was burned, the Jewish
Temple Emanuel, in common with Chris
tian Churches, offered its hospitality to the
homeless congregation, which was accepted,
and Easter services were held, for the first
time on record, in Hebrew synagogue.
In a speech last week in New York, DR..
Porter, of the Reformed Church, affirmed:
1--WE love and respect one another. But
the Baptists would send me to perdition up-
less l was immersed" WhereupoH the
Baptist Weekly says: "When Dr. Porter
reads the precept, Thou shalt not bear
false witness sgsinst thy neighbor,' if it does
blister his tongue it will be because his con-
science is seal ed as with hot iron
Bishop Merrill said to Methodist Con-
ference in Providence, as to pastors engsg
ing in secular business: The idea prevails
among some people that the Church pays
the minister to preach on Sundays. do not
30 regard it. l understand that the Church
undertakes to support him for what he does
during the week. If you labor as you ought.
you will have no time for the store or any
thing else of worldly character"
The Rev. DIR. Cuyler, CT Brooklyn, SAVE
that the experience of more than thirty-fve
years in temperance work convinces him
that not more than one per cent. of those
who become utterly scottish drunkards, can
be ef,rmed and saved. He says that even
though many Of these unfortunate persons
may desire to do better, and may even go
so far as to take the pledge, the power OF
their drinking habits is so strong that they
become bsckslided. DR.. Cuylers
doctrine is that it is easier and wiser TO keep
men from becoming drunkards than to re-
store them after they have fallen into habit
ual intoxication