The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.

Pilgrim Progress is published in seventy
languages by the London Tract Society.
The rector OF a fashionable church m Utah
is spoken OF as the Apostle OF the Gen
teels."
From a recent enumeration made at Rome
il is estimated that there are $50. 600. 0Oo
Catholics in the world.
1t matters little at what hour of the day
The righteous fall asleep. Death cannot come
To him untimely, who is ht to die.
MILNAN.
Mr.. Moody. the evangelist, hopes TO spend
January and February and possibly March,
in Memphis and New Orleans.
Two ladies IS years of age, collected the
entire last years salary of the Rev. s. Earn
gey, pastor OF the Methodist Church at Nor
ris III.
Chicago has now sixty-one Catholic
Churches only two less than New York City,
This is an increase OF eight in the past twelve
months.
Cannon Farrar is to present the original
manuscript OF his eulogy ON Grant. delivered
in Westminster Abbey, to the Webster His
torical Society.
We are children; the things that we do
Are as sports al n babe TO the Infinite view
That marks all our weakness. amt pities H. too.
+. b EoE SMITH.
Mohammedanism has made great strides
in Africa within the last fifty years. and
Christian missionaries freely say they will
soon have to deal with it rather than pagan
ism.
The American Missionary Association,
whose next annual meeting will be held at
New Haven, will spend $1,000 day in its
great work this year, If contributions per-
nit.
DIR. Thompson. Archbishop of York, is a
Liberal, and DR. Benson, Archbishop OF Can
terbury, II Tory, bat both are opposed to
the discstablishmenl OF the Church OF En-
gland.
The North Pole is represented as the site
OF the Garden of Eden by DIR. Warren. Presi-
dent OF Boston University, SO skillfully that
DIR. Howard Crosby confeSses that the theory
is a plausible rs any yet presented.
The Christian Convention conducted by
MeSsrs. Moody and Sankey at Newburg. y.
Y, for three days closing Nov. =, was very
successful and has led to "a deep religious
feeling throughout every church in the
city.
The Principal of the Theological Seminary
at kioto, Japan, recently addressed the stu
dents of the Yale Divinity School He in
formed them that thirteen churches
have been formed in Japan within the last
year.
The Shakers have established a recruiting
station in Philadelphia. Converts. after un-
dergoing rigid discipline, are removed TO
Watervliet, n. Y, where they are further
instructed in the doctrines and practices OF
the sect.
A number of the Episcopal clergy have
gone into a retreat. Something OF the kind
would not hurt Methodist mnisters-mOre
time spent in their closets with God and
themselves would bear much fruit.-St.
Louis Oh ristian Advocate.
An American minister has been making
calculations about the amount of money
paid a. salaries to ministers in the States.
and has come to the startling conclusion
that more money is spent in supporting
dogs than in supporting the preachers OF the
gospel.
OF 100000 contributed annually to
send the gospel TO Africa and Asia all but
| one-tenth is furnished by England and
| America. but the whole amount is not much
more than one.hundredth part of what the
| people OF the United States pay for intoxi-
| eating drinks.
DR.. Behrends. OF Brooklyn, has no response
| TO his challenge to the world. to show a br.si-
ness enterprise conducted at as low a per
cents Tor operating expenses rs that OF the
| American Board. which puts ninety-five
cents of every dollar il receives into actual
| work I'm the foreign field.