The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-17
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND moi.
DENT.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer,
who setteth the letters backward; we see and
feel well His setting, but we shall see the
print yonder-in the life to come.-Martin
Luther.
There is disposition On the part of the
Norwegin Lutheran bodies to unite. One
commendable reason given is that they may
carry on their foreign mission work more
successfully.
The Bible Committee of the Norwegian
Lutheran Synod has printed the New Tesla
ment at their publishing house, DEBORAH,
Iowa in the Norwegian language. Lack of
funds prevent them at present from publ n.
ing The Old Testament also.
Patient be In time of trouble;
ALL is good that God doth send;
Trust MIN ever-He Will help you,
If you trust Him to the end.
yer, then, confide ye in Him,
Never doubt His love and power;
Constant is His gracious mercy,
Fen until our dying hour.
Some people speak as if hypocrites were
confined to religion; but they are every
where: people pretending to wealth when
they have not a sixpence, assuming knowl-
edge of which they are ignorant, shsmming
a culture they are far removed from, adopt.
ing opinions they do not hold.-Rev. Albert
Goodrich.
The resurrection is only tomorrow morn.
Is
We should do so as In the happy days of our
childhood We thought OF our bed when We re-
tired to il for the night, expecting an elder
brother to call Us in the morning and take
rs with him on a pleasant excarsion.-Dr,
William NJ. Taylor.
The death is announced of the Rev. II. A.
S6rn, d. D., at the age OF sixtyfour. Mr..
Stern, who had been for more than forty
years a missionary among the Jews. and was
one of the Abyssinian captives, who after
years of pIotTacted and cruel imprisonment,
was delivered by Lord Napier, of Msgdala,
in The year 1868.
The Rev. W. ]. White, of the English Bsp.
tist Mission in Japan, has nearly ready for
the press a novel adaptation to Japanese
thought and manners eff the Pilgrims Pro
gress. It is as far as possible translation,
and the names of the characters are very
happily and often humorously rendered,
wkile passages that would bs quite unintel-
ligible from the standpoint OF Nippon are
omitted.
The cd chained Bible OF Canterbury Ca
hsdral which has for so many years been
carefully preserved in the Cathedral library,
is now undergoing renovation. Dean
Payne Smith and the Bishop of Dover have
replaced it in its original position upon
what is known as Cranmer's desk in the
northeast aisle of the cathedral. Tue book is
one of large size and considerable weight;
sId would appear to have undergone very
rough usage, probably al the time of the
Rebellion.
A Hampton, Va, correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says that In the
beautiful old st. Johns Church, of Hampton.
Bithop Ran dolph held last Sunday, special
Confirmation service for q class which iu-
clU ded several Indians members of the
Hampton School. There are no people,
he saio, who owe more to the Indian than
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pleasant to me to see here that this the old
est church in America, is doing her share of
missionary work among them"
There are three Presbyteries in South Car
DINA, composed almost exclusively OF col
orCd PEOPLE, and in connection with the
Northern Assembly. 1t is thought that the
erection of a synod in South Carolina must
shortly be the result: Great progress Is be-
ing made in evangeliZlng the colored people
in this State. The work is going rapidly and
steadily forward. Every town IN the upuer
part OF the State has its col0red Presbyterian
church, and il is ia almost every case, the
church that is doing most for the real good
of that Tsce. a first rate scadamy for their
further aid snd instruction is needed for this
part OF the State.
Arrangements are progressing among
number of clerical bicyclists in the United
States for three weeks tour in Canada. be.
ginning at Niagara Falls on Aug 5. About
fifty ministers have already agreed to GO. The
Rev. Sylyanus Stall, OF Lancaster, Pa, is
supervising the arrangements. Besides
wheeling over more than six hundred miles
of the best roads in America, it is intended
TO take In the thousand Islands and other
resorts of note. Several clergyman from
New York and Massachusetts, are expected
TO be in the party. The entire expense Of
the tour, while in Canada is not to exceed
$50 each man. Through the Consuls of ths
League OF American Wheelmen special
rates will be made by hotels, stages and rail-
roads