The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08
ssIi"IoUs INrELLIGEkos AED IN
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God repented that ne made man, bat
never that he redeemed him.
Deacon Wilcox, of Liverton, X. l., has
oeen made insane by religious excitement.
Pray, pray, prav-there Is no help but prayer;
breath that fleets beyond this iron world,
anu 'oucnes Him who made II. ro
rs your father a Christian, johnny"
asked the new minister. "Oh, yes sir ;" said
Johnny. "but he doesn't work at 1t much"
-Bufalo Express.
At recent book sale in London, q copy
oi the Mszarin Bios brought ST. 800; which
% said TO be the largest price ever paid f)r a
printed book.
The Lutherans cf Chicago have thirty
three churches, wish 20. 600 members, in the
city. There are three branches OF them
the Norwegian. the Swedish, aud the Ger
man.
Professor G. +. Wright says in his new
book that there ara in the New Testament
more than six hundred instances in which
expressions have been incor porats ed into it
from the Old Testament"
Let our Lords sweet hand square us and
hammer us and strike of all kinds OF pride,
self-love, world-worship and inidelity, so
that He makes Us stones aud pillars in His
Fathers house.-Samuel Rutherford.
Since Mr.. Surgeons Stockwell Orphan
age was opened, nine hundred and twenty
four fatherless children have been sheltered
and cared for In its cottage homes. Each
home has its own family under the direction
of its matron.
Theology, OF the old fashioned kind, Is
having hard time of il at the hands of Mr..
Bob ingersoll Rev. Z. Heber Newton and
Henry Ward Beecher. By the time they get
through with the Westminster Catechism
there WON'T be much of it left.
Christ Church, Madison, Ind, has secured
he nLv II 49,
Diocese of Southern Ohio. who will enter
upon his work on Sexsgesima Sunday. He
will Ind faithful people to work among,
end will be cordially welcomed to the Do
cese.
NO." said q Vermont Deacon, 'I don't
approve OF boss racin', but when another
member OF the Church becomes 50 goddess az
TO try to pass me on the road comm home
from meettn' feel it my duty to let out
little on the reine, lust to keep him from
putin his trust in earthly things"
A new Michigan meeting house is to have
arm chairs Of cherry wood, mahogany fin.
:shed, with fitting backs, each chair bsing
provided with hat, shawl cloak, book, UNI
brells and cane rack and a foot rest moth
ing else seems needed to make a model
church" remarks the Christian Union "ex-
cept sound doctrine, live Christianity, and
pastor capable of keeping the occupants
Of the luxurious chairs wide awake all the
tilne."
Bishop Warren in his Philsdelphia Cen.
tennial address, made the following state
ment in regard to the UNCONVENTIONAL edu-
cational institutions of this country. The
Protestant Episcopal Church has twelve
colleges. with IS 700. 900 endowment; Con-
grefstionalists, twenty-eight colleges, with
$ee00 600; Precbyterians, forty-one colleges,
with s. 900 600: Baptists, fcrty-sx colleges,
with SIC. 800 600; Methodists, fifty-two col
leges, with I'll, ESQ 900 endowment.
The Few. DR.. W. Nj. Taylor says that a
missionary on the Western frontier writes to
the Americ An Congregational Union that &C
commodations are so scarce in the town
where he is stationed that he BIAS to go three
miles out OF the village and sleep in q corn
shack" IL asked what that was" says DR..
Taylor, land the answer vas that it was
principally remarkable Cor it's ventilating
qualities. You viii understand that re.
mark" DIR. Taylor tells his congregation,
when Inform you that o 'corn-shack' is
made OF pianks, put together about two
inches apart. SO as to ventilste the corr"
IL ves when your business became so i'm
periled, impoverished and racked that you
began 90 Org ont for the living God. 1t was
when the physicians had given you up aud
your best friends had hidden you adieu that
you began to think whether there was not,
after ell, some secret in religion you had not
yet known, and come safety in piety OF which
you had oeen up 10 that time needless. And
90 in many relations OF lie We have found
in extremity what we never found in pros.
perity. an our weakness has become our
strength. And in the consolidation of our
highest life We must RENE mber that repose,
not strife. Is the last result of piety. We
want moet sucoor VIXEN We are most elusive.
We are only half-trsined and probably ILL
trained men. so long as We show signs OF
anxiety. fear, suspicion, appre hension about
the fnture.-Joseph Parker.