The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-05
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.
Delicate perfumes. faint aud rare
Dreamily floating in soft spring air;
Radiant lilies, pure and white.
Opening their hearts in the morning ligh

Dreamily floating in soft spring air:
Radiant lilies, pure and white.
Opening their hearts in the morning light;
Glorious Glorious beams from the Easter East sum-
Dexter c. Washburn, in Cottage Hearth.
The American Congress of Churches will
be held at Cleveland, May %, 20, and %.
The resurrection is the silver lining to the
dark cloud of death, and We know the sun is
shining beyond. Walton.
1t Is resurrection-life that is the truest as
well as the most glorious immortality: it
admits no reversal and no decay.
A Mrs. Haigh, recently deceased, left by
her will $50 900 to be equally divided be-
tween twelve churches in the West riding of
Yorkshire, England.
Reservation Indians at Round Lake, Wis,
have begun the erection of a church; and at
a temperance meeting recently several of the
red men signed the pledge.
The Baptists are about to commence the
erection of theological school at Louisville
Ky, which will be the largest school of that
denomination in the world.
At a Methodist conference in Philadelphia
the fact was brought out that many preach
ers OF that church receive only $500 per year
salary, and that the average is not over $780,
The statistics of the order of the Jesuits
show that it counts $500 missionaries, 24S
1900 archbishops and bishops, and 5000
authors.
Two thousand children marched in process
sion at the annual Sunday-school festival a
few weeks ago. in Lucknow, India. The boys
were nearly all Hindoos and Mohammedans
and two elephants graced the procession.
At a recent confirmation at Trinity church,
Lancaster, Western New York. one of the
candidates, a woman eighty-one years of age
/ h
but was assisted on the way by her neigh
bors.
The number of Christians in Japan from
1882 to 1884 increased from 5000 to 10, 900,
and the government is favorable to the
change. Persecution has been entirely done
away and Christianity is advocated by the
japanese press.
A Philadelphia exchange has the follow
ing rare item: Father McNulty, of Paterson,
n. j., is the right sort of man. He tracked
a lot of his parishioners up back alley into
a tavern on Sunday night, walked in, planted
his broad back against the door, took out his
pencil and paper, and noted the ast0nlshed
parties they jumped through the win
dOws, tasted the unfinished drinks at the bar
that he might swear to their quality, and
walked out. Such man is a whole law and
order society in himself.
There is trouble in the. Congregational
church at Woodhaven. l.. L., over the action
of the trustees in stopping an entertainment
which had been arranged to be held in the
church. The Ladies' Aid society connected
with the church made arrangements with a
single teacher to give concert for the bene-
tit OF the society, and they obtained permits
sion from one OF the trustees to use the
church. After the services on Sunday even
ing last the trustees held meeting. and on
! one of their number representing that the
| proposed entertainment was OF theatrical
nature they refused to permit its being held.
| Now the ladies threaten to leave the church
unless the matter is adjusted and the trus
| tees make a concession.