The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-24
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I. II .feSiis-weptt'.- tear OF .ssrr,,r
l. legacy Of love.
Yesterday. ioday. tomorrow.
lie the same doth ever prove.
Pc 7 hOu al in all ca me,
Living One Oi Bethany.
"Camp-meeting" John Alien has lately re-
covered from a serious illness
Though God may seem to frowa in His
providence, yet lie aiways snliics in His
promises.
FriitlesS is sorrow for having done amiss If
II Issue not in resolution 60 do no more
Bishop Home.
1t is reported that 1000 Protestant chill
dren are attending Catholic schools i'll the
United States
Live near 10 God. and - al things viii ap-
pear to you little in comparison with eternal
rcalitieS.-R. NJ. NCheyre
Who gives 10 whom bath naught been gisen.
lis gift in need. though small indeed
A. j. the grass blades wind-bi0wn seed
Is large a. earth and Fich As Heaven.
In one Of the Kings County, New York
Sunday schools there i lady who Was
teacher in 1924. and has continued in the
work ever since.
There j. said to be not single evangelical
mission in tho whole valley OF the Amazon,
and that gospel sermon has neYcr been
preached IN ali that territory.
The minutes of the Florida Conference OF
the Nj. t. Church for 1879 show that of its
three districts but one-thc ST. Johns River
District-is manned by white preachers.
The South Baptist Church. Hartford. Conn,
rectly called to its lons-yacant pastOrate the
Rev. Joseph h. Wheeler. of Terre Haute, Ind.
The call is strong and entirely unanimous.
Episcopalans are rejoicing over the speedy
completion of the buildings for their new
theological seminary on Washington bOule-
ward, Chicago. They will be ready for stu
dents in the fall.
At the last General convention of the Con-
gregational Church of Michigan at Jackson
last week, about 200 ministers were present
1t was advised that the laws governing the
granting of divorces be made more strict
The Rev. DR.. Samuel Hirsch, rabbi OF the
Keneseth Israel congregation. of Philadel-
phia, celebrated onJunc 3 his 10Th birthday
in the midst Of his family. his noble consort.
children, and grandchildren, surrounded by
his numerous friends and admirers and hon
Ored especially by his large congregation,
and by large number of colleagues and
friends from all parts OF the country and Eu-
rope. Ills son. DIR. Emil G.. Hirsch, rabbi of
the Sinai Congregation in Chicago was pres
ent.
Now comes the New York Times with the
information, boldly displayed on the first
page, that hencefOrward at St James, Chi
cago, 1.-THE boy choir will take no part in the
lessons, the congregation reading them as
formerly"
The Rev DIR. ]. o. Peck. one OF the hearth
est of Methodist Episcopal itinerants, was a
member and one OF the speakers at the Amer
lean Congress of Churches He seems to have
been a independent as needs be- and Eek
pressed his mind more freely than some per-
sons present liked.
l find these two truths stay To my soul:
the efficiency of the atonemcnt, and the sta
bility of the promise. Just now this seems
my all, and enables me to look up to God as
my father, although am his sorrowing
child; for Is | think OF my sins and sinful
ness. il almost seems as | mus: sorrow even
in the land where sorrow shall be no more
knuwn.-Eyans.
The Rev. DIR. Hanson recently preached
funeral discourse in a Methodist neghbor-
hood, and one of our people overheard the
comments of his auditors at the conclusion
Of the service. THAT man j. no Universal
it; that was no Univer>alist sermon. 1 know
what Universalism is; that was Christian
sermon" etc The fact is the orthodox
clergy have dressed up scarecrow and la
beled il UniyerSalism, and the cariCature has
SO been made to pass current among their
hearers that when the genuine article appears
those who have been mStaught do not
recognize it.-The Uniyersalist.
'sThe mountain labored" as the old adage
has it, "and brought forth mouse When
Henry Ward Beecher announced with con
siderable show of timidity and hesitation that
at last he had decided To preach a series of
sermons, up to this withheld, on evolution.
the religious public caught its breath and
prepared to listen to something Startlingiy
revolutionary and heretical. So far, how
ever. il has been gratuitious apprehension.
Judging from what has already been said the
views put forth are neither remarkably novel
nor measurable. They are of piece with the
liberal ideas frequently preached in the Ply
mouth pulpit before this, and are much a
one might naturally have anticipated on the
basis OF former reiterated utternceS.-rhe
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