The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-21
RELIGIOUS ISrELLIGENCE AND mol
DENT.

RELIGIOUS INrELLIGENCE AND mol
DENT.
An audience of 4 ,0oO persons greeted Mr..
Moody in Dublin.
Church property in New Hsmpshireis no
longer exempt from taxation.
The Methodists expect TO build 450
Churches in the United s stes this year.
There are more than 10000 Sunday
schools connected with the Methodist Epis-
copsl Church.
The Christian at Work saws that "the
Pope contemplstes sending Papsl Ambas.
sador to Warrington.
liberalism has crept into the churches,
Gays Western paper; "but it has not vet
reached the contribution box"
Rev. w. NJ Pettis, of Newport, XIV. has
been elected to the rectorship of st. Johns
Church, Lafayette, but has not yet signi6ed
his acceptance.
In the race for denomins tional growth in
South Carolina the Presbyterians are ahead.
Their Church has made more progress in
five years than any other persuasion.
During the last ten years. according to
the carefully kept statistics of the chief con-
stable of Glasgow, Scotland, not one pub
lie house is reported as open on Sunday.
The oldest preacher in Massachusetts-
the Rev. George Allen, of Worcester, who
has just completed his ninety-irst years
the only survivor of the Yale Glass of 1918.
"Did you know" said cunning Yankee
to Jew, "that they hang Jews and donkeys
together in Poland2" Indeed then it is
we'll that you and are not there, retorted
the Jew.
eff the Legislature abolIshes the office of
Chaplain" Gays the Tombstone (Arlzona)
Epitsph, "some of the members wall lose
an opportunity of hearing minister of the
gospel for the first time"
Norman Macleod's story of a rather glut-
tonous Presbyterian minister who was used
to look at the dinner before saying grace;
and if it was q good one, began, "Bountiful
Jehovah" etc. If it looked bad, I'VE are
not, o Lord, worthy of the least of Thy
merciss."
The son of the late King of the Limbia
Territory, Western Africa, is at present st
England under the care of Rev. j. Booth,
who is about to return to his work as Wes-
lyan missionary in that district. The young
Prince is said to be about sixteen years of
age, an intelligent and consistent Christian
youth. His uncle. the Regent, has agreed
to build a new Chapel at his own cost for
the Wesleyan Missions.
A woman went to Michigan clergyman
for advice as to q business venture, and i'm
plicitiy followed the directions which he did
not hesitate to give. The result WAS disas-
trous. She now sues him1 for $4,000, that
being the amount of damage which his bad
counsel caused. His defense is that, while
his profession made him an expert in spirit
ual affairs, the woman had no excuse for re
lying upon his judgment in business mat
tiers.
At Ladora, lows, q tornado some time
ago blew away the Presbyterian Church.
There was debt of 5000 on the land, which
was not blown away. The Ladora Presby.
terians have been so energetic and 80 pros
porous since the time of their disaster that
they now have erected Church costin g
81 600. In addition to this they have paid
their old 5000 debt. All the aid they have
had from outside was the $500 which the
Board of Church Erection gave them.
There are many debt-burdened Churches
which might find tornado q bonanza to
them if it struck them these enterprising
Christians of Lsdora were struck,
Notwithstanding all that the missionaries
have done among the people of the Congo
region of Africa, most of the natives are
still firm believers in witches and witch.
craft. All diseases, deaths, and other mis-
fortunes are charged to the influence of
witchcrsft. When any disaster happens to
a person of high rank the fret question is,
SWho is the witch2' There are witch doc
tors, whose business 1t is 10 point out the
persons they suspect of being witches. As
the property of these who are proved to be
witches is always confscated, the witch doc
tor is shrewd enough to point out some per-
SON of considerable means. If the tests
which are applied are regarded ss conclusive
that the accused are really witches, the mort
abominable tortures follow. These gener-
ally end either by putting the victim to
death with spears or chopping his head
off.
Some mischievous young persons In ru-
raj Church choir were proud of the way in
which they rendered the music of the
Church, and were much annoyed by the
discordant way in which an cd deacon in
the congregation persisted in doing wha,
he considered to be his duty and his share
Of the singing. The old man, who bad been
in the habit of singing inthst style all his
life, refused to take the many hints which
were from time to time sent to him. At last
the choir folks, weary of his discord, waited
on him in body, and told him how differ
emit his singing was from theirs and how
they wished he would step. He listened tC
them sadly, but respectfully, and then said
"My young friends, my voice is not good
and my ear is not perfect. My singing If
not skilliul; but am sure it is more ac'
ceptsble to God than yours, for l sing as I
Christian, while you sing all your beautiful
music only Ms choir" The young folk
concluded to lot that old man alone for thu
future, and to allow him to do as muci
singing as he pleased in any style tina
might suit him.
Young Wives for Old Husbands.