The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND INCL
DENT.

Peace in a sinful course is one of the great
est of curses.-Bunyan.
Roman Catholics are estimated at 1S4, 900
900 and ProteStantS at AS 600, 600, but the lat
ter claim a gain of $50 per cent, during the
past century to so per cent. for Rome.
Rev. Sam Jones closed his meetings at
Waco, Texas, June %. when an audience of
from 5000 TO 6,000 was assembled to hear
him. A shed had been built for his meet
ings.
The issue of religious works of all kinds by
the Presbyterian Board of Publication last
year reached over %, 900 900 copies and by the
Baptist Society during the same time 22,9S6,-
0l6 copies.
For the first time in over a century the
ancient church in Wallingford, Conn, has
been called upon to dismiss its pastor Rev.
III. Nj. Tenney, the present pastor, goes to
Cleveland, o.
The Jesuits have purchased the isle of
Buelah in Walmouth County, Wis, thirteen
miles from Waukesha, and will shortly erect
a villa for the use Of the scholastics, and for
place of retreat during vacation.
Rhode Island has twenty-Seven Congrega-
tional Churches, and on Jan. of this year
their aggregate membership was 5,755. The
total of their benevolent contributions for
1884 was S47, 456 of which $9,57S was for for
eign missions.
During the eleven years pastorate of Rev.
G.. w Banks the membership OF the Third
Congregational Church, Guilford, Conn, has
grown from $50 to 800. Two hundred per-
sons have Joined the church, an average of
eighteen year.
The Salvation Army in England proposes
to send mission TO China, with a native
leader; also to establish a Salvation Navy to
carry on the work of the army at sea and in
seapOrts. A Yacht capable of accommodate
ing three hundred people has been donated
for this purpose.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in this
country maintains nine theological seminar
les, whose property and endowments amount
to nearly s., 000, 000 and fifty colleges of var
ious grades, having value of Sl0,OO0O,0O0. 1t
also sustains fifty-two classical seminaries
and twenty colleges for women.
Absolom, who was a fool wished himself
judge Solomon, who was a wise man.
trembles at the undertaking, and suspects
his owl fitness for it. The more knowing
and considerate men are, the better they
are acquainted with their own weakness,
and the more jealous of themselves.-Henry.
If the calculation of German theological
review may be trusted, the total number OF
Catholic missionaries is at present 6, 700 thus
divided: Capuchins 1000: Franciscans, 2 500;
0blates, 800; priests of the foreign missions,
200; Jesuits, 1 500;; Lazaritz, 200; Donini-
cans, 500; the remainder of various congrega-
tons of seculars.
The common mercies we enjoy all sing OF
love- just as the sea-shell. when we put it to
cur ears, whispers of the deep sea whence it
came; but il we desire to hear the ocean
itself,sEe must not look at everyday bless
ings hut at the transactions of the crucifix-
ion. He who would know love- let him re-
tire to Calvary and see the Man of Sorrows
dice. III. Spurgeon. ..
The Rev. Or. CharlesA. Briggs, professor
of Hebrew in the Union Theological semin-
airy, recently declared by The Interior to be
the most accomplished biblical scholar of this
country, has come out strongly against the
revised version of the Old Testament. He
holds that the revisers made great mistake
i'm accepting as the basis of their work the
same Massoretic Hebrew text that was used
by the authors of King James version, and
he concludes that in short time the new
version will need revising.