The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-04-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND IL.
OLDEST.

When By good mans grave muse alone,
Methinks an angel sits upon the stone
Like those of old ON that thrice hallowed night,
Who sat ana watched in rsiments heavenly
bright,
ssys, pointing upwards. thar he is not here,
Samuel Rogers.
During the year 1881 the revised New
Testament found about 100000 purchss-
eTs.
The pendulum to the clock in DR.. Tyngs
Church, New York, has been swinging with
out stopping for twenty-f five years.
Religion suffers more from the shame of
these that profess to be guided By IT'S pre-
cepts, than from the persistent opposition OF
declared enemies.
Referring to the introduction OF roller
skating in an insane asylum in its State, the
Michigan Christian Herald says: such al
institution seems to be the only appropriate
place FOR it."
think that my love to Christ hath feet in
sburdance. and lunneth swiftly to be at
Him; but it wanteth hands and fingers to
appre bend Him. / think that L would give
Christ every morning my blessing TO have as
much faith as have love and hunger; at
Il asst, miss faith more than love or hunger.
s. Rutherford.
The new Synagogue of the Congregation
mai Jeshurin, of New York City, is one OF
the city. A lamp above the reading.desk Is
to burn uncesingly.
The fifth annual War Congress OF the Sal
vation Army was held at the Academy OF
Music in New York, March 70. About 500 OF
the officers and soldiers of the Salvation
Army took part. The greatest excitement
prevailed.
A sarcastic clergyman ia ministers meet
ing at Springfield, ILL.,, predicted that tina
inn bar VII q urh u
part in prayer meeting could demand pay
for bis services. He meant to hit the profess
sional revivalists.
Professor William II. Thomson says the
lives of 10 Q00,0 GOO people in Turkey hang by
a thread, because Mohamedans think it a
duty to kill every Christian who fails to pay
an escape tax. He wishes England to hold
Egypt, in order that the Mohamedsn power
may be broken.
Says a correspondent from Scotland: "rhe
Salvation Army is dying out in Scotland, and
for this chief reason, believe, that the
churches are being warmed at the heart, and
are waking and reaching out the hands of
Brotherhood and Christ to those masses from
whom for so long they had gathered up their
skirts"
Although Cambridge University is nearly
fifty miles from London, nearly fifty Cam
bridge students recently attended q meeting
in London 10 see some OF their former CON-
rades ordained as missionaries, and the I'M
precedented circumstance is said to bea re-
suit of the influence of Mr.. Moody, whose
work produced permanent impression
upon the religious sentiment of the Uai-
versity.
All our watching must have reference to
the coming of the Lord. Ia all things we
must be diligept and faithful, to the end that
we may not be ashamed before Him at His
appearing. How soon shall all our oppor-
tunities for serving and clarifying God ter
inmate? How soon shall we appear before
the judgment-seat of Christ to receive sccord-
ing 10 the deeds done in the body? "Lst Us
therefore not sleep as do others, but let us
watch and be sober. "-Graham.
A correspondent says: "The training OF
converts is, in Its place, quite as important as
their baptism and reception into the church.
1t is not affirmed that we demand too much
OF them before baptism, but it is certain that
we demand too little from and do too little
for them after baptism. No church can be
strong except those who have professed
Christ are trained in Christian knowledge
and activity. In order that they NAV be so
trained there must be systematic effort in
that direction"