The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-23
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.


The American Missionary Board needs
100000 to come to its seventy-fifth annivers-
airy next October out of debt
A minister, having some of his old ser
mons, was asked what he had in his pack
age. Dried tongue" was the reply.
Ground has been broken for a Young
Mems Christian Association at New Haven,
Conn. The building will cost 100000.
Doremus Scudder, son of DR.. Scudder, OF
Chicago, Ill, was ordained at Kobe, Japan,
June Il. Eight japanese churches were
represented in the Council.
The pope has distributed among the card
inals copies OF his Latin poems, printed on
rose paper, in Elzevir type, with illuminated
borders and rich engrayings.
''Fully three-fourths of the members of
Baptist churches in this city," says the New
York Examiner, ''are people that depend for
their support on daily labor"
1t is said that split will occur in the
Fourth Methodist Church, of Pittsburg Pa,
because roller-skating was allowed to form
one of the attractions at a late church festi-
val
At Mortified Mr.. Moody has been buy
ing big wagons 10 be used on Sundays for
carving TO and from church people who live
at a distance and could not otherwise at
tend.
A Baptist clergyman in Dakota has held
great blowing and sowing bee and seeded to
wheat large tract of land given by wealthy
member. If all goes well, the church will
have several thousand bushels of wheat next
season.
The Rev. DIR. Brownee has been pastor of
the Reformed Church at Port Richmond.
Staten Island, for fifty years. The fact was
commemorated upon a recent Sabbath by
the presentation of gold medal TO the hon
ored pastor
According to General Booth, the Salvation
Army flies its colors in seventeen countries
numbers ,O50 corps of soldiers and $3.50
paid officers. The army publishes twenty
newspapers reaching half a million readers
every week.
Bishop Watson. of North Carolina, held re-
ligious services at Mantea on Roanoke Is
land, recently. This is believed to be the
second time in three hundred years (since
1884 that religious service according to the
forms of the Episcopal Prayer-Book has been
held on Roanoke Island.
The Georgia State Agricultural Society. at
the recent convention held at Marietta
passed a resolution requesting the Governor
| To apnoir day of thanksgiving and praise
| to our heavenly father for his goodness and
mercy in blessing us with good seasons good
| crops, and the prospects OF bountiful
| harvest
The Rev. J. NJ. Luke was once interviewed
| by church committee which was anxious
| 10 employ a $1,000 pastor on less than half
them describe the gifts of the man they
needed, Brother Luke replied; "Yes you
| want a whale and you haven't water enough
| to swim a minnow.
The additions made to the Presbyterian
| churches of this country last year on exami-
nation number 1892, the gain by CONVEX
\ sion being about per cent of the whole
| ing an average addition of about seven rev
| converts to each of the 6,093 churches
OF the religious intelligence of Germany it
| is written: The ignorance in matters of re-
! ligion. is Incredible The respect for religion
| and those who reach il and preach 1t has
been very much diminished. Religion is no
| more power in public, in domestic life,
nor in the press, nor in parliament, nor in
| the church.
A little girl happened in a neighbours
| house one morning at the time of family
| prayers. She was asked to stay. and accept
| ing the invitation, remained an interested
| participant in the proceedings. When they
| all arose from kneeling She startled the COM
| pany with the exclamation: 81 like this
! game irstrate. What is the name of it?''
| In the ncighborhood Of Trinager at the Dial
lake in the northwest of India. there occurs
1 annually in the early summer very singu-
| lar festival. The attraction of the occasion
| is the exhibition of a hair of the head of Mo-
| hammed. The hair has been preserved for
centuries in the Holy place on the bal lake.
| II j. kept i'm a silver box. with a glass lid
| IL is exhibited three times during the festi-
| val.
| Arrangements have reen made for a mis-
| sionary conference to be held i'm Philadel-
| bhia Wednesday and Thursday. Nov Is and
TO-, i'm commemoraton of the reorganization
| of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary So
| ciety in 1885, upon the basis Of the member
| ship of the church, and OF the hftieth ami
| versary of the conservation Of the Right Rev.
Jackson Kemper, ID. D., the first missionary
| bishop. The opening service will be cele-
| bration of the holy communion in Christ
Church, in which DIR. Kemper was conse-
| Grated.
The Executive board of the Union of
American Hebrew congregations this year
sent ont about 200 circular letters asking for
practical suggestions regarding measures to
interest the rising generation of Jews in
Jewish affairs. All the replies agreed that
Judaism is not in a bealthful condition in
this country, and the majority advocated
the establishment of synod as an essential
measure.
| There was curious observance of st.
james day at Standardization. First,
| there was choral celebration of the Com
munon; then q cricket match between the
i clergy ana CnOlr ana the congregation, lucn
| there were prizes for the heaviest baby hap
| TIED within two years, and for the member
Of the congregation who could make the
| ugliest face Finally. the clergy and choir
surplieed, walked in procession, singing
| hymns.
| A Chicago magistrate, before whom the
| Hallelujah Chorus and five brigade officers
| of the Salvation Army were arraigned as
| ''public nuisances," said that from his own
l experience there were more arrests on ac-
count of the Salvation Army than of all the
saloons on the North Side" Yes; people
| are very free with their complaints against
this handful of noisy and cranky religionist;
but they are in no haste TO make front
against that great Damnation Army which
| holds possession of city governments and
and runs riots at its will.-Christian Regis
| ter.
| The Christian Union discusses the Ques-
ton "How can the laboring man be attract
ed to the church and be held there after he
is attracted 1t says: 'Would il not be
well to try and create among the laboring
men an order of lay helpers who would work
among their fellow-laborers? They are the
only ones who are practically familiar with
the trials and temptations of a laborers life;