The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.

No man is more severely punished than he
is subject to the whip of his own remorSe.-
Seneca.
The New York Times predicts thst 1000
barreled sermons will be made useless bv the
change of one text in the Revised Old Tesla
ment.
The lifelong dream of the late Sir Moses
MOntefOre. the eminent Hebrew philanthro-
piSt was TO see Palestine the seat of a Jewish
empire and Jerusalem its capital.
1t is said that on recent Sunday in St
Louis 10000 people went to church, 10000 to
Buffalo Bits show, 20, OCO to base ball games
10000 to beer gardens, and 5000 to hear In
gersOll blaspheme.
One earnest gaze upon Christ is worth a
thousand Scrutinies OF self. The man who
beholds the cross, aud behOlding it weepS,
cannot be really blind nor perilously self
ignorant-Dean Vaughan
1t is not stately walls nor beauteous spires
that tell for Christ; nor eloquent sermons,
nor artistic anthems, but lives that are clean,
hearts that are glad with the light of Christ,
and hands that are loaded with mercy.
Rev. w. c. Merritt, president of Oahu col
lege Honolulu, says religious affairs in the
Sandwich Islands are in bad way, and that
they will likely continue so until the islands
are annexed to the United States and be-
come home missionary field.
The reason why we find 90 many dark
places in the Bible is, for tie most part, be-
hearts. 1t belongs to the nature of this book
that it was written for all men of every time,
and for all the experiences of each single hui
man heart.-ThOluck
Recently high pontifical mass was cele-
brated at Copenhagen for the first time since
the days of the Reformation, such a service
having heretofore been forbidden by law
tl.,1s H..
about 5000 souls, with twenty-Six priests, OF
whom seven are Danes.
The sum OF what we would say is, let
Methodists be Methodists. Let them adhere
To their own doctrines, ritual, usages, and
methods. Nothing envious is intended with
relation to other Christian churches. Their
systems suit them; let them stick TO them.
and may God prosper them. Ours suits Us;
let Us stick to it. minding rather than trying
to mend it.-Nashville Advocate
1t is reported that crowd of saloon-keep
erS in CrestOn. Iowa, went to the house of
one of the members of the Congregational
Church at that city. armed with a rope with
which to hang him, but the evening was the
one upon which the church members prayer
meeting was held and the sought-for man
was there considering the words found in
John xvii. IA, ''rhe world hath hated them
because they are not OF the world
Il
which Mr.. Beecher has been let alone in his
expOsitions of evolution, the announcement
of which he made with an air of captivating
assurance. The fact that he had been deliv-
ering them has been duly chronicled. and
extracts from them have appeared now and
then. but for the most part the world has
moved along as il 10 say that il did not make
much difference whether he talked or what
he said.-U nited Presbyterian.
The new statistics OF the Southern Presby-
terrain Church are regarded as very encourag-
ing. Sixty-six new churches were established
within the past year. There are thirteen
synOds, sixty-nine presbyteries. gain of one
1912 ministers, loss OF seven; communi-
cants 135, POI. gain of 3,9i3. The total df
| contributions is 81 ,547.765, showing a falling
off. which was chiefly however, in cOngrega-
tiOnal and miscellaneous expenditures, and
not so much in benevolent collections.
The Independent delivers the following
| plain talk TO the jewellers at Asbury Park
| and Ocean Grove: "What kind of people are
| these Asbury Park and Ocean Grove set
| tiers? A year or two ago honOred negro
| guests of the National Educational COnven-
| ton could not get dinner at the chief hotels
| in Ocean Grove without cOnSenting to have
| il served in the kitchen or in a separate
| room, where high-caste whites could not be
| contaminated sy them. Now Asbury Park
wants to close its gates against men OF color
| liz does not propose TO shut out gamblers,
| thieves, prostitutes, and other immoral per
/ sons but to bar out whole race simply be
cause they are black. We would as soon
| have the society of lepers as that of men who
| could advocate such outrage.