The Indiana State sentinel., 1883-08-29
RELIGIOUS iNrELLsGEEOE AND INOs
DENT.

| Inc SYNOD OF OnlnH mas uVo EresOytorleS
situated ct Canton, Ningpo, Shanghai, Shsnt-
| ung and Pekin.
A Presbyterian church was organized s
ew days sgo in Monterey. The room used
| Tor the organization is the same one in which
he California Legislature sa. in 1919 and in
which the frat constitution of California was
| adopted.
A religious exchange Gays 'the only power
that can countersct the brute tendency Of
human nature is religion"
During the century just passed the popu-
! lation of the Uuion States has increased
eleven-fold and while 100 years ago there
wss one church to every 100 inhabitants;
there is now one to every $50.
TIE Rev. Mr.. Doolittle, of North Branch,
N. j., has adopted q novel plan for making
IL 9 most Of his.vscations. He is allowed q
month every summer and is Saving them
up" until he has enough for trip around
the world.
at was pitched without" said q clergy
nan having Noeh's ark for his theme, and
en- cid baseball player who had been calmly
slun bering swoke with q start and yelled
"foul" The first base from the choir came
down and put him out"
Germany possesses the Oldest priest living
in the world. He is los years OF age, and
hss been eighty-four years in sscredotal Or
ders. He dwells at Lupel, enjoys excellent
health, and fulflls all his religious duties
with the most sarupulous inactitude.
Answers received to seventy more of the
circulars on the removal of the Three. Y Yesrs
Limit law Of Methodist ministers show 55
bo e. ~
n favor of extending the time, and 2G op-
pottd TO both removal snd extension.
A preacher was holding forth to q large
audience at Fort Scott, Kan, and announced
!or his text: "in my fathers house are many
mansions" He had hardly ceased speaking
vi en- an old cocn stood up and said:'I tell
ecu folks that's q lie. know his father well.
he lives about fifteen miles from Lexington,
Ky., in an old cabin, and there amt but one
r. om in the house."
The faithful" are greatly disturbed by the
report published in Calcutta journal of the
appearance of the ghost of Mohammed at his
tomb in Mecca. Az the next festival of Mo-
luIrum, the completion of the fourteenth
eel tury aimee the hegirs, they expect the sun
% ise in the west, the writings of the Koran
viii be oblitersted and the destruction of the
rid viii take place.
The Churchman is severe on Evangelist
Hammond for the way Le writes books for
children. It says that his writing ara 'full
of pious talk, not to cay twsddle and cant,
ard tho only good thing about them would
be the numerous texts of Scripture il these
were not sometimes used to bolster up a
wrong system" It concludes that the Evan
gelist "has much wrong TO answer for"
1t seems quite an ecclesiastical phenome-
non that in this day of light and progress
nearly 500 United PresbyteriAns should meet
in convention at Allegheny City to utter
heir lamentations over the alleged sinfulness
of using organs and other musical instru-
menis in the public worship of God. These
people represent the ''anti.orgsn" party in
Ihst wing of the Presbyterian Church. Their
General Assembly recently, after protract-
ed struggle, authorized the use of organs in
Churches where they are desIred, leaving
those who dislske instrumental music free
TO render their songs of praise vocally in the
old way.
The Catholic Monitor, of San Francisco,
SAYS: "Whenever wanton woman in the
wilds of Borneo, or any other portion of the
civilized or uncivilized world brings q GRIM
inal accusation against Catholic priest, the
whole daily press sendsit spinning round the
globe as an additional incentive to new and
nasty gossip concerning those awful Romish
priests In ninety-nine cases out OF every
hundred such charges are instigated by the
| internal one, disposed to by deprsved or de.
mented chsracterless creatures who have
little or No conception of the escred charac.
| ter CT en- oath, and who are either defeated
openly in Judicial contest, or else escape
from Just punishment for their perjury by
heeiDg from the face Of that very justice they
have invoked"
Car man who is members of an Off
cial body which has power to grant liquor
licenses be expelled from the Methodist
Church for voting to grant such licen. .esH ?
This is asked of the Bishops organ, the
Christian Advocate. This discipline Of the
church iorbids the buying, selling, or using
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, signing
petitions in favor of granting license, be-
coming bondsmen for persons engaged 10
such traffic, or renting property IS the place
IN which to manufacture 'or sell. But the
Advccste sees radical difference between
the relation of an official who has taken q
solemn oath to discharge the duties incum-
bent upon him in the positioniu in which he is
placed and the voluntary act of an ordinary
citizen. Its ruling is tha. when man oc
cupies an official position in which he is
comp elled to vote for or against applications
for licenses, and he concludes that in the ex-
isting state Of public sentiment it would be
better to license certain places, he is bound
by his oath of ofice to vote for such license.
and can not be disciplined.
Tie telegraph, says the Nature, hss made
another sdvsnce in China. IL has had the
honor of being mentioned In a memorial to
the throne. Ii Hung Chang lately stated in
Q report TO the Emperor that he received cer-
tam information by telegraph. And, more
wonderful still, that mysterious and awe-in-
| spring document, an imperial decree, writ
ten with the vermilion pencil, has actually
been dispatched by telegraph, for the Vice
| roy of Canton reports recently in a memorial
That decree had been conveyed to him in
| that manner.
shaken with Contulsive Tremors,
Then parched with fever, then well nigh dissolved
| in clammy sweat. Is not the repetition OF such
course OF horrors every few days enough to wreck
| the strongest constitution Undoubtedly. Even
when sufferers from fever and ague and bilious
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