The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-08
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND IN
CIDENT.

The average salary of Methodist ministers
in New England is $3.50.
The first supplied male choir in Vermont,
it is said, has just been organized in 81.
Paul's Church, Burlington.
"No, sir" said tho clergyman, III don't
pray for rain unless my special dispatch
from the Weather Bureau says we'er liable
to get it."
A Presbyterian university is to be located
at Pierre, Dakota. The college will begin
with buildings valued at $4,000 and will
have an ample endowment fund.
Father Hyacinthe and his wife will sail
for this country on the 25th of August. H
will make addresses TO the larger cities, ana
remain here probably until late in the au-
tUmn.
There was once s clergyman in New
Hampshire noted for his long sermons ard
indolent habits, "How is it, said man TO
his neighbOr, "that ParsOn -, the --latest
man living, writes these intermiDable SER
mons" why" ssid the other, che probably
gets to writing and Is too lszy to stop"
A Western clergyman said in sermon
that the tone of the daily press was not de-.
vout. He did not complain that the news
btO dUOOb vi bAC
contrary, he thought it the duty of public
journals to record events without discr NINA
tion; but he had an idea that system might
be created by which to every sccouI t of 8
mndeed should be appended brief moral
application of the Lesson which it taught
Thus, if murder was the result Of run, be
would have few remarks on temperance
follow the news. instead Of being put inlo
the editorial column, where the unthought-
full reader might miss it.
York Street Baptist Church, Louisville,
Ky. has been rent 10 pieces by qusrrels.
The members are colored people and have
for some years had several different varieties
Of disputes on hand. Two councils have in
turn been called with view to patching up
pesce. The frat of these arranged terms OF
settlement which at first seemed practicable,
hut which proved otherwise. The second
council advised that the beiligerent parties
ehould separate. This they did, Dut in so
doing they split their Church into fragmsn-
tary bits. The building which cost $4,000,
was sacrificed to meet a debt of So, 200. The
members Of the ruined Church will seak fell
lowship among the other eight colored B3p-
list Churches of Louisville, where it is to bs
hoped that they win keep the peace.
Father DYER, a Methodist minister, now
living on the Divide, was the pioneer preach
er in Colorado. He will probably offer the
opening prayer Of the approaching quarter
centennial. It ia related of Father Dyer that
when be first landed in what is now Dsnver
he saw before him large tent, snd to that
suppOsing O camp meeting 10 be ia progress,
be wendell his way. To his astonishment be
ound-not e camp meeting, but very ex-
teDsive series Of games, such as faro, poker,
keno and the like, going forward. He re-
msined about the tent for forty-eight hours,
looking very intentiy upon the progress of
the games. At the end of that psriod he
stepped upon table and said, in q voice
loud enough 10 be heard all about him:
"Boys, l have looked st your game now for
the past eight snd forty hours. Now l ask
you to give some attention to mine. Let Us
pray" They had not before known that the
'olemn-looking MAJ was minister. but at
the invitation hats were taken of, chips we're
dropped, and sll bowed their hesds in prayer
with Father Dyer leading. And this was the
first public prayer uttered in the Pixies
Peak country. After the prayer had been
concluded the games were resumed.