The Indiana State sentinel., 1886-01-13
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE, AND
INCIDENT.

Time has laid its hand.
Upon my heart, gently. not shifting it,,
But asa harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden ITS vibrations.
Ashes are on my head, and on my lips
Sackcloth, and in my breast heaviness
And weariness OF life. that makes me ready
TO say to the dead abbots under us
Make room for mel" Only see the dusk
OF evening twilight coming, and have not
Completed half my task; and SO at times.
The thought OF my shortcomings in this life
Falls like shadow upon the life to come.
-Longfellow.
The greatest act of obedience is to take
Christ Jesus-W. Romaine.
Holiness is not the way to Christ, but
Christ is the way to holiness.-N. York OBJ
server.
The Baptists of st. Louis have lately dedi-
Gated the Third Church in that city, costing
SOS, 900.
There are two clergymen in congress,
Messrs. Owen of Indiana and Anderson of
Kansas.
The combined capital of the Methodist
Book Concern in New York and Cincinnati
is 81, 100000.
The Luthern churches of Paris recently
celebrated the seventy-seventh anniversary
of their foundation.
A unanimous invitation has been extended
to MI. Moody to conduct services in Louis
vile, KY, in January.
Reports from all sections of Kentucky
point to deep religious movement. Nearly
all the churches are holding special services.
The Presbyterians want to set up statue
of John Calvin at Washington, and they
have committees at work trying to raise
funds.
The Y. NJ. G. A. Building fund in Wor-
cester has reached the sum of SOS, 900. Great
enthusiasm has characterized the donations,
many OF them being unsolicited.
Wah Sin.Lee, Chinaman, who has made
$4,000 at the laundry business, has applied
for admission into Cornell University to
prepare himself for mission work in China.
Professor Drummond, of Glasgow, has
been invited to address the students of Ok
ford upon personal religion, and is the first
Presbyterian theological professor ever thus
honored.
The census of church accommodations in
Berlin has recently been taken. There are
more servant-girls in that city than church
sittings, and yet most of the churches are
only half filed during services.
There are said. to be fifteen hundred more
Congregational churches in the country than
there were in 1860, while the number of
theological students in Congregational semi
naries is only twenty-seven more.
Hon. George H. Barnes, president of the
Northern Pacific elevator system, has given
notice that he will give $50 600 toward found
ing Congregational college in Fargo, Da-
kota, to be called the Barnes university.
An everyday religion-one that loves the
duties OF common walk, one that makes an
honest man, one that accomplishes an intel
lectual and moral growth in the subject, one
that works In all weather, and improves all
opportunities-will best and most heartily
promote the growth of church and the
power OF the gospel,-Bushnell.
The minister had preached a sermon on
Sacrifice" in which he urged the benefit of
giving up some cherished pleasure for the
cause of religion. Little Tommy had lis
tened thoughtfully, and his mother thought
she would find out how deep an impression
the sermon had made. don't you think,
Tommy" said she, 'that you would give up
some cherished delight, some pleasure that
you value in a good cause?' Yes" said
Tommy, Il think perhaps might, "Well,"
said his mother, greatly gratifed at his re-
ligious interest, "well, Tommy, and what
up?" 81 don't know" said Tommy thought
fully. "Supposing | give up going to
church 20
Cha, lain Bass of the penitentiary in
Brooklyn says that twenty years ago only
about per cent. of prisoners had previously
been Sunday-school pupils. but that now 75
per cent. of actual and suspected criminals
| have been such, and The Church Union
| takes the statement up. 1t does not dis
pute it, but draws from it lesson, which is
that generation of neglectors of the sane
tuary is growing up. And at this point a
correspondent comes to its relief and says:
ministers are represented groaning over
such results. They may groan, but after all
| they are the ground and root of all evil.
| God placed in the hands of His ministers
| this foundation work in the church-the cul-
ture of the young. And yet as though they
could do it without disobeyiDg God; as
| though they could do it without defrauding
| the young; as though they could do it with
out exposing themselves to fearful reckon
| ing at the last; ministers have put the bur-
| den of this which God intrusted to them,
| into the hands of parties not only unap-
pointed by God, but incompetent