The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
RELIGIOUS INrELLIanNOE AND III.
CBDFNT.

The church was luxury, bat the skating
riDk necessity, hence the change.
The total number of periodicals in the
MethS dist Episcopal Church is seventy-two;
seers gate in various branches OF Methodism,
r04.
The New York Y. NJ. C. A. received
10000 visitors last year, exclusive OF its
branches.
General Roger A. Pryor's father, DR..
Pryor, of Virginia, breaches regularly, al
though be has Just completed bis eightieth
year.
Ex-President Woolsey, who addres sed the
Yale students Sd impressively on the Dav
of Prayer for Colleges. is eighty.three years
old.
Dancing at Delmonico's is not feature OF
the meetings of the New York Baptist Social
Union, as some of the editors of the denomi-
nation are relieved to discover.
Though God has promised always to guide
bis inquiriDg children in the way that Is
right, BE has nowhere promised to make this
way now right to their trends or neigh
bors, or even to themselves. yburton.
The proportion of those who attend public
worship to the bulk of the population in the
following four European cities is: Berlin. 90
COO. population, 900, 900; Hamburg. 5000,
population. 400 0OO; London. 8 600 coo, pop
ulation. .000, 900; Glasgow. 500, 000 popula-
ton, 10000.
On appeal from the Jews in Jerusale m, the
Sultan has annulled the sale of a part OF the
Mount of Olives, which contains the graves
OF the prophets Heggai, Zechariah, and Nal
schi. The purchasers were the Russian
PRIESTHOOD. The burial place of the proph-
efs had been secured to the Jews in perpetu-
lily.
When the Hampton Quartet sang '.Swing
low. sweet chariot" at the funeral of Rev
6. ID. Pike, ID. D.. OF the American Mission
in ba art
ford. the effect was wonderful. He managed
the Fisk Jubilee Singers while they sang
$4,000 into the treasury Of Fisk University.
The Congregational churches of the coun-
try are just now sgitating the question of a
change in their policy OF installing and dis.
out to the pastors OF this denomination in
the two cities and throughout the State In
order to ascertain the general sentiment on
the Que stion was brought up by the national
council at its session in St. Louis.
What of the heart of love
That bleeds In thy breast o man,
Thy bells prolonged into kuells.
Thy hope that breath dispels,
Thy bitter, fororn farewells
And the empty echoes thereof
still We say as we go,
Strange to think by the way,
Whstever thepe 10 to know
That shall We know one day..
r.. Browning.
Chan cellcr Salisbury, of Senatorial fame
Is very empUatlC IN MS ueuuQC1SttOU o1 tDo
sentiments ex pressed by Henry w ard Besch-
pr in his lecture on Evolution, delivered in
Dover, Del, on Monday evening. The FORE
most college presidents, however, do not fear
evolution, and DR.. McCosh, of Princston,
was one of the first to affirm that the Bible
can not be injured by new discoveries oil
science.
William Burns is to be even a greater
name in the religious history Of the Chinese
Empire than Is that OF Wesley in the rslig.
ious history of America, it is said by high
authority, II have my bag with me aud car
convention when he could be ready to leave
his British home for projected missionary
expedition among the Celestials, and so in
tense was his zeal that he adopted the full
Chinese costume, pigtail and ALL in order &c
facilitate his advance to the interior.
Some Of the best men of New York City
have started Q movement to help the most
degraded children of the city, children of de
PRAYED parents, and those who know moth
ineof father and mother The first object is II
help the child in its home. Day shelter
and night schools will be established fo
these children, bat no child will be accep
ted within twenty-f0ur hours after applica
ton has been made, IN order to find the &C
tut condition OF the environment of the a p
plicant. These shelters will be established
10 all parts of the city, beginning with th'
poorest.
Bapt1st6 STATISTICS Tor the present yea
show considerable progress. In England
there are thirty-ive asssciatsons in Vale
ten, and In Scotland and Ireland one each
The totals for the United Kingdom are a
follows: $500 churches, 3,909 chapels, wit
over one million sittings; 312. 465 chu-cl
members, AS, IA Sunday school teachers
467, $50 Sunday scholars. 1,90S pastors, anC
3 sos evangelists. Compared with the Off
cisl returns for the previous year. this show
an increase of los churches Ill chapels, 3
655 sittings, 1868 church members. los
Sunday school teachers, 80, 40 Sunday caol
ars and decrease of thirty-two pastors.
She Standard says: Mr.. Hebbun, Pres
byferian missionary in Japan, is rather san
guine in regard to the hold Christianity IA
obtained upon the people OF that country
He doubts whether missionaries will b
needed there fifteen or twenty years hence
and thinks that IL even all the foreign mis-
scenarios were expelled at once, the wor
would be carried forward by the natives.
il encoursging that an intelligent mission
AIRY upon the ground is thus sanguine. al
though we may not coincide with his view:
vet there is no doubt but that the islam
Empire will become Christian at compars
lively an early date from the opening OF tn
country to its entrance, less than forty year
ago"
INDIANA GENIUS.
John Finley, the Author OF 1.-THE Hoosier'