The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-14
RELIGIOUS INrELLIaENCE AND moi.
DENT.

Sacred Sunday concerts are not permit
ted in Philadelphia.
There are estimated to be 100000 He
srews scattered over the world.
The Methodists are preparing to establish
q University in East Tennessee.
Brooklyn hiss 2S5 Churches to popula-
ton of SGT, $50, or one Church to every /, 6SS
persons.
An Iowa town Of 1900 inhabitants is en-
deavoring to maintain twelve Church or
CARNATIONS.
The London Mail says that the Old
Testament Company has completed its Sec
ond revision.
Dr. Cuyler of Brooklyn says that the late
w. E. Dodge spent the first hour of every
morning in reading the Bible and in pray
ing.
The number of native Hindoos who are
now members of Christian churches is near
ly $4,000. In ten years the increase has
been SIS per cent.
At the opening of this century all protes-
tsnt Christendom expended annually only
S250.000 for foreign missions. 1t now ex-
ponds 81 500, 900 annually.
The Rev. Mr.. Skeats. in his new English
dictionary, says that the word "God" is of
unknown origin, and that it has been incor-
rectly connected conjecturally with the word
"good."
The Rev. Mr.. Forth, of Winnipeg, said
with reference to Sunday trains on the Can
ada Pacific Railway: Better ride to Heaven
in Red River OK cart than go to Hades in
a palace sleeper"
1t is said that minister in country
kirk in Scotland stopped in the course OF
his sermon to ask q member who was some
what,desf: care ye hearing, Johnf" "Ob,
aye" was the response, 81 am hearing, but
to vera little purpose"
A small boy in South Carolina raises
canary birds and gives the proceeds Of their
sale to the Board of Foreign Missions. In
three years this enterprising and benevolent
y Dung person has thus gathered and given
about one hundred dollars.
An English bishop querulously remarked
to his servant that he was dying. "Well,
my lord" SAID the good fellow, "you are
going to better place." John" replied
the prelate, with an air of conviction, "there
is no place like old England"
A small lake which il said to be the
source OF the mississippi hiVer, instead OF
Lake ltssks,a commonly supposed, has been
named Lake Whipple, after Bishop Whip
pie of the Episcopal Church, whose mission
sry diocese covers all that region.
An Anticipated preacher of the Free Kirk
of Scotland. in a sermon referring to the
introduction of an organ into q neighboring
Established Church, declared that "soon
they would get concert every Sabbath in
the old Kirk. The devil would have his
bandmsster there to discourse music to
them on the organ, and the Captain, like q
cursed pirate, would hoist his false colors to
lure souls to destruction"
This is the greeting which Texas paper
extends to new pastor: "The Rev. Mr..
Glass, the preacher for the ensuing year,
has come. He has pretty good clothes,
doubtless purchased with means saved by
systematic starvation from his salary of last
year, for he looks little lank It is, per-
haps, quite proper that the world, and es-
pecislly his Church members. should take
his good clothes into consideration and
deadbeat the Lord this year. There Is moth
ing more to be appreciated than "ftee re-
ligion."