The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-07
RELIGIOUS IsrELLIGENcE AND INCL
DENT.

There are 302 Protestant schools il
Syria.
The monks and nuns in Italy number
nearly 81, coo.
Many Catholic priests in Italy receive
only $50 year.
On sn average in Switzerland not more
than one in ten goes to Church.
st. Paul, Mimi, has just organized its
fourth Congregational Church, and Mime
apolis its sixth.
In Toronto, Canada, on q recent Sunday
evening forty seven pastors of different de-
nominations exchanged pulpits.
Rev. Isaac P. Cook, Sof Baltimore. has
been IN the service Of the Methodist Church
for sixty years and has preached $500 SER
mons.
The beginning of Lent will not fall on
as early date as In the present year until
1894. Ash Wednesday falls on February Z
and Easter Sunday on March %.
There is nobody who can stir up SO
many church rows, says a prominent Meth
odist preacher, ''as the brother or sister
who claims TO live life Of sinless perfec-
ton"
The Church of England, as a whole, is
the largest landowner in the Kingdom, and
Canon Wilberforce has called attention to
the fact that 1t is also the largest owner of
public houses, and pronounees it "griev.
Gus scandal"
eighty Colleges, and nearly 1900, 600 pupils.
A large part Of this educational work is Gee.
ulsr, but it is nearly ST due, directly or in
directly, TO the labors of missionaries.-The
Presbyterian.
1t is stated that the Baptist Church occu-
pies commanding position among the re-
lgious bodies of Ohio. According to a re-
cent report made to the State Baptist Con.
vention, the total membership for 1882 num-
besed 50.055, showing a net gain over the
previous year of 1900.
A controversy 10 brewing between the
Rev. Joseph Cook and Professor Egbert G.
Smyth, of Andover. The latter is an obsti.
nate non-believer in new departures from
the cid orthodox theology.
A most remarkable religious awakening
is in progress in York County, in the State
of Maine, through the preaching of Rev
John I. Vine, the Evangelist. he has been
preaching nightly for nine weeks in Sanford
and Esst Lebanon, and crowds flock t.
hear him. Such a revival has not occurred
in Sanford for quarter of a century, and
it is still spreading.
ST heard q voice from heaven" sang the
choir at the funeral of notorious man, and
the Christian at Work. commenting upon
ths fact, says the question naturally arises
ss to whether choral ears do moi sometimes
hear heavenly voices which are not only
never heard elsewhere but which will never
strike the ear Of the deceased in his new
body, supposing him to have tympanum.
A clergyman in the time of Cromwell
being deprived of his living for non-con-
formity, said 10 bis friends: THAT if be
was deprived it should cost hundred men
their lives" This strange speech being
noised abroad, he was summoned before q
magistrate, and thus explained his inten-
ton: Should lose my benefee," said he,
81 am resolved to practice physic, and then
may. if | get patients, kill hundred men.
| A spirited discussion is now going on il
| Brooklyn as to the right of a clergyman Il
strike back when be is struck. This is no
in regard 70 matter of fsticufs, for tht
clergy have not fallen into any such pro
nounced discord even in Brooklyn. But i
il in connection with the thousand little
mean accusations and petty innuendoes II
which the brethren and sisters who do no
like the minister indulge. Some of thos'
who direct their shsfts of tattle or sarcasn
at their pastor say that he is no. graceful
enough when he stands in the pulpit, tina
he rolls his eyes when he prsys, in wa,
which they di-like, or that his manner i
too much like that of dry goods salesman
and his voice like that of an auctiooeer
Perhaps it is best that the man of Got
should not reply to any of these remarks
Yet, as he is human being, it is hsrdl!
possible that he can refrain from doing Sc
! His critics wait their opportunity, snc
when they can catch him saying some shsrl
thing in response to something mean tina
has been said about him, they gather thei
friends in knot at the door of the prsye
meeting room and ask IL he can be 8 godl,
and humble msn to talk in that manner
Some of them who have been most sever
and petty in their criticisms adduce "a
case of the Savior, who. when He was re
viled, reviled not again." and they say tn
minister ought TO be like his Master.
asked IL they are like their Master, they sa
that is quite another thing, and the standar
Is higher than they think they can affair
But they think the minister ought to
like Him. Ard so the discussion goes on.