The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-05
RELIGIOUS INTELL5GENCE AND Incl.
DENT.

The n emoriai volume OF the late Catholic
Plenary Council has been issued.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal be-
tween duty and desire.-M. Z. Alger.
Bishop Hurst. Methodist, has just left the
Suez Canal On his way home from India, and
he will soon be in New York.
Thoughtlesznes is never an excuse for
wTong.doing. Our hssty actions discloss, as
nothing else does, oar habitual feelings.-J.
T. Fields.
In Washington the largest auditorium is
that Of the Congregational Church, bat is not
large enough 20 ssat who wish 70 hear
Raw. 5. d. Newman, the new pastor.
TIE Mohammedans srs 123 600 600 in all
countries, but even n European Turkey,
common considered the stronghold Of IS
lam only One-fourth o. the population is
Mohammedan.
Tire Methodist Episcopal Missionary Score.
taTies ask Jump sum- OF 81 900 600 for the
work Of 1885 home and foreign, sad IS that
il only fifty cents per capita Of oommuni.
cspts they ought to get it.
There era now only five bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South living:
Bishops Nc ryeire. Nashville; Keener, New
Orleans; Wilson, Baltimore; Cranberry, ST.
LoDis; Hsrgroye, Atlanta, Ga.
Spurgeon has turned cut COS preachers
from his PASTORS College in the twenty
eight years it has been established. Spur
geon's theory about learning TO preach IS las
dog learns TO swim; Jump IN"
New York City has twenty-eight religious
denominations 800 churches and other places
of worship, and about So 400 church MEM
kerE, representing q population OF nearly
400. coo. So says City Missionary Jscksoa.
Daily ought we 10 renew Our purpose, aud
| to stir up ourselves 10 greater fervor, aud to
| ay, "HeIp me, my God in this my good
a. t-f~-
that may now this day Dsgin perfectly"
-Thou as a. Kempis
IT'S only when they spring to heaven that an
gels
Reveal themselves to you'll TT ey sit all day
Beside you, and lie down at night by you
Who care not Tor their presence, and muse or
And all al once they leave you and you know
then. browning.
Brown-'I was surprised to see You at
church yesterday, Smith. l understood that
| you didn't bellows much in religious mat
| teTs , Smith-"Well-er-Ih have been some
what OF an lnfi5el al BDy life, but the cold
| that I caught last week bxs s tiled On my
| lungs and feel little Dsrvous about it."
The Baptist Church OF Berlin, Germany,
was founded in 1857. its present chapel be-
| irg built in 1860 IL has 772 members. In
connection with the church are fourteen
| preaching stations in the neighbSrhood of
Berlin, in four OF which ara small cha pels.
The church sustains eight Sunday schools
! with about $50 scholars.
Among Christians so much prominence
has been given to the disciplinary effects OF
! SORROW. affection, bereavement, that they
have been in danger Of overlooking the other
and mare obvious side that by every Joy, by
| every favor, by every sign OF prosperity, yea,
! and by these chiefly. God designs to educate
and discipline his children. This one-sided
view of the truth has made many morbid.
gloomy Christians who look for Gods hand
only In the lightning aud never think of see
ing 1t in the sunlight. They only enjoy
themselves when they are miserable -RsY.
L. L. Clark.