The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-05
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND INC
DENT.

| One OF the strongest reasons why certain
persons profess to hate the Bible is that the
Bible hates what they are doing all the time
| Missionaries are seldom in luck with
$4,000 legacies, but this exceptional good
fortune falls to the lot of the Rev. Gerald +.
Dale, who has for some years been laboring
in Syria.
Good old Mrs. Barton, of New Haven, has
been for nearly fifty years the teacher Of
large and important Bible class. A few
DAYS ago her class met to celebrate her
eightieth birthday.
The fervor of the religious awakening in
0rebro, Stockholm and other places in
Sweden is so great that the people will not
leave the Chapel in the evening. eve must
drive them out about ii p. m. by turning
down the gas" writes Pastor Truve to Pro-
lessor Thwing, of Brooklyn.
The Governor of New York has respited
a criminal condemned to die on Good Fri
day The respite was granted in evowed
Difference to the sentiment aud feeling of
Christians. This is as it should, be and we
hope the example thus set may revive the
old judicial respect for times and seasons
which seem fast dying out.-The Church
man.
At Gallupville, in New York State, there
is Reformed Church which has no pastor,
but wants one. provided an acceptable
man can be found. The consideration Of
tered is threefold, consisting OF house to
live in, donation party once year, and
$500 in cash. The view from the windows
Of the Gsllupville parsonage Is said to be
exceedingly picturesque.
Three years ago All Dong knew not one
word of the English language. Last week
he made an address of welcome in English
on the occasion of the anniversary of the
Chinese Sunday school of the Mount Yer
non Church in Boston. He is native Of
China, and is only thirteen years old. The
very young Chinese are found to be much
more easy to to teach than the average
laborer or washerman, who is generally
twenty or twenty-five years of age when he
arrives in this country.
The new United States census gives 3d.
653 Protestant Churches, II ,6G2 Protestant
ministers, snd 9,O03,0S0 members of
Protestant Churches. Deducting the Ro-
man Catholics and Mormon populations
from the total population of the country,
there remains AZ, S64,38l. This gives one
Church for every 473 persons, including in
fants and children, one minister for every
GID people. and nearly one protesting
Protestant for every five of the entire popu-
letion outside vf Catholicism and Mormon
ism.
Evangelist Hammond wanted to show the
children of Memphis, Thnn., how Satan goes
about "ss q roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour." In order TO do this effectusl-
ly, he goes down on his hands and knees on
the pul pit platform and execute motions
like those of qusdrupcd. One of the re-
ligious papers of that region criticises Mr..
Hammond severely for this iofrsction of
the ordinary rules of pulpit gesture. 1t Is
the more severe in its criticism because OF
the noise made by Mr. Hammond in simu-
lating the roar of the terrific creature. This
is regarded as a correct representation of
the noise made by the king Of beasts. As
to the roar or other noise made by Old Sa-
tan himself the critics had never heard Of
It; vet they suspect that Mr.. Hammond has
not rendered it with accuracy. Mr.. Ham.
mond has of late years be-
come very portly, so that he can not with
ease go through the motiJns incident
to the portrayal of the habits of a personal
devil. This fact lays him open to all the
more pungent criticism when he attempts tC
to that in which 1.-the and athlete avange
list might reasonably hope for better success
The question of the use of tobacco among
the clergy came up in rather an unexpected
way at the meeting of the Baltimore Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
|. !. last week. In the course of some remark
addressed to number of candidates fol
, admission to the ministry Bishop Wiley
asked them if they would refrain from the
use of tobacco. One of the candidate
replied that he would not abstain from
its use, but modified his reply and said tina
he would endeavor to do so; another replied
Q that he "would not promise to abstain,
a while two answered that they would abstain
= Some excitement over the replies was mani
fest in the Conference, and, in the course o
Z the discussion which ensued, the question
was asked of the presiding Bishop what eff
a feet the answers given by the candidate
i would have upon them. The Bishop an
e swered that that was question for the Con
J. ference to decide. One clergyman aske'
t another how long ago it was that he bat
+ stopped chewing tobacco, and received tn
"a satisfactory answer: "Twenty years." An
t other appeared to consider that promis
q "a abstain from the use of tobacco was re