The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-26

dents ebajy, provided an equal amount is
raised for the came purpose within. the next
two ears.
The list OF vacant Congregational Churches
in Illinois has been reduced from seventy 10
forty within the past few months, owing
70 the large numbers of men who have re-
Gently come from other States and from En-
gland.
General Booth of the Salvation Army in
tends to enter London after his provincial
tour at the head OF 100 brass bands. The
Home Secretary has been appealed to to
stop it; but has declined The crash must
come, and will be worse than the dynamite
scsres.
At the Wesleyan Conference at Barslem,
Rev. NJ. Young and Rev. Mr. Whitehead
gave an account OF q recent visit to America
as delegates to the General Conference.
They speak in the highest terms of American
Methodism and gave many interesting sta
tistics Of its strength and extent.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church.
which counts upward OF 300,0 members.
is struggling hard 20 build up good educa-
tional institution at Salisbury, y. c. 1t has
madea good beginning in Zion Wesley Insti-
tute. of which Rev. J. G. Price is president
Mr.. Price is an able and eloquent speaker.
he has faculty of five professors.
Bishop Hurst, Of the Methodist Church,
ude ldttll Udug NY SpcCldl APPOINTMENT, an
interview at Ruschuk with Alexander l.,
Prince of Bulgaria. The Prince is Protes-
tant, and the way was open for the Bishop
to lay out in full the object and methods of
missionary work. The interview was appar.
emily satisfactory to both parties.
A reporter Of Toronto paper lately made
visitation TO the various churches of that
city dressed in nearly threadbare and other
wise dilapidated clothes, to see how DOOR
man is treated in the house of the Lord. He
was locked over THAT is over his head
thrust into corners, and in some places had
hard. work to make himself received as q
worshiper
Rev. Henry Plummer, 1.-THE colored man
whom the President has appointed chap Jain
in the Ninth Cavalry, one of the four regi-
ments OF the service composed of colored
men, was field hand in Prince George
County, Maryland, at the time OF the eman-
cipation, and could neither read nor write.
He is the first colored man to receive such
an appointment.
The Norwegian Lutheran synod has IN
dertaken mission work among the Indians
of Northern Wisconsin. A missionary,
Eric o. Moersted, has planted himself near
Wittenberg, in that State. 1t may be re-
membered that the Scandinavian Lutherans
were among the first to prosecute missionary
work among the red men, and that Luther's
smaller catechism was the first book trans
lated into the Indian dialect.
The amount Of Christian work done in
Utah by means Of schools IN which there is
distinct Christian training is probably
greater than is usually supposed. From sta
tistics carefully prepared, it appears that
seventy-one school buildings have been
erected, at a cost Of 1927 900, and more than
dozen other schools are held in rented
buildings. In sll eighty-fve schools are
sustained with funds outside the territory,
in which are employed 1S5 teachers, whose
salaries amount to s9S, coo year, and nearly
$500 children are taught.
The Archbishop of York thinks that
India is in singularly combustible coRdi-
ton. II Is like mine charged. The fuse
is there. and it has only to be lighted. Any
day the light may be applied. The para
mount duty Of England Is TO Christisnizs
India. The time is opportune, according to
the testimony of all those who are best &C
quainted,with The country. The Archbishop
is sound enough as to the duty of England
in The premises; but 1t is by no means GER
tain that Christianized India will be more
patient Of English rule than India IS it Is.