The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE, AND
INCIDENT.


INCIDENT.
More lady missionaries are wanted in In
dia.
Missionaries are doing much good in New
Guinea.
The Presbyterian Mission Board has Persia
all to itself.
Mr.. Spurgeor is much improved by his rest
at Mentone.
Mission churches grow twice as fast as
those at home.
A mulatto girl has been ordained dea-
ooness in the A. NJ. L. Church.
Seven out of eight Congregational preach
eTs at Hartford are ministers sons.
Rev. Samuel ID. Burchard of "Rum, Ro-
manism, and Rebellion" has been succeeded
ia his pastorate by Rev. J. Ford Sutton, of
Philadelphia.
Through the dark night lie stin Gods faithful
Lies hid. like morning, underneath the sea:
Let thy slow hours roll, like these weary stars,
- y ~ ~ > I!y inL' Caldwell Roscoe.
The proud man hath no God the envious
man hath no neighbor: the angry man hath
not himself. What good, then, in being a
man, if one hath neither himself nor a
neighbor, nor God.-Bishop Hall.
In all charity believe that your brother
desires to hold only Christ's truth; but do
make sure that you hold it yourself, whether
he holds it or not. This is the best unde-
nominationalism in the world.-Spurgeon
DR.. Lyman Beecher once said to a minister
with the burden o. cold congregation on
him; DO as the mother hen does, brood
over them, sit on them. warm them up
while, and before long you will have cackling
enough"
can't account for the small attendance at
church on Sunday" remarked ParsOn Jones.
Neither can l. replied Fogg, with his Gus
tomary frankness. II went a few Sundays
ago, and couldn't see anything to attract
the small attendance ! saw there"
The lark goes up singing toward the
heaven; but if she stops the motion of her
wings then straightway she falls. So is it
with him who prays not Prayer is the
movement of the wings of the soul; it bears
one heavenward, but without prayer we
sink.
The Rev. J. A. Ward was arrested and
imprisoned for about an hour or so at Clin-
ton, Iowa, for street preaching. His
Incarceration aroused general Indignation,
and the City Council rescined the anti-sal-
walton army law under which the arrest has
been made.
A Scotch dominic, after relating to his
scholars the story of AnaniaS and Sapphira
asked them: why did God not strike every
body dead who told lie?' After long
silence one little one little fellow got to his
feet and exclaimed Because, sir, there
wadna be onybody left"
The organ question has become a burning
question among the Jews on the
continent. A Vienna rabbi maintains
that the organ is not heathenish appliance;
that it is proper aid in worship. and that
some of the largest Jewish congregations
in Europe and America have introduced it.
In connection with the Wesleyan jubilee
ii is proposed to raise during 1SS6-S7 S300.OO0
as a jubilee offering. In connection with
the same there is to be "Golden Sunday"
on which old and young are to put gold into
the collection box. What about the widows
mite2 The programme, in this particular, is
not beautiful.
1t is stated that the pope has conferred the
Order OF Christ on Prince Bismarck and on
the German minister to the Vatican; and
that the Emperor William has conferred the
decoration of the Black Eagle upon Cardinal
Jacobini and the decoration of the Red
Eagle upon two members of the pope's
official household
The Jewish Reformer says: Progressive
and enlightened Judaism, stripped of its
Oriental garb, freed from its shell which now
threatens TO smother the long-hid precious
kernel, rid of all Its shackels is destined to
win the entire world for its sublime and SIM
pie truths for its doctrine of the unity OF
God and its ethics based upon the social
unity of man."
There is a novel sort of q church in Jersey
City. 1t is called "The Church of the First
Born Holiness. Tomorrow will begin con-
ference which will continue for seven days.
To this conference all who have been healed
by faith are invited. 1t is expected that
very remarkable variety of testimonies Will
be gwen by those who have been cured, or
| who think they have.
The Pope has issued a lengthy series of
twenty-three articles for the better govern
ment of Roman Catholic Church music. The
regulations forbid the use of theatrical or
prOfane themes, and direct that music shall
be grave and pious, not too ornamental, aud
shall be properly performed. A Commits
sion of st. Cecilia" is to be appointed, and
| schools of music to be formed.
The heretical DR.. Woodrow who stirred up
| such commoIion some time ago among the
dry bones of southern Presbyterianism by
! teaching the doctrine of evolution in the
| theological seminary at Columbia, S. c., is
now triumphant. He was excluded from
the sch 81 then. but new board of directors
| lately { osen, have reinstated him, allowing
| his sale for the time of his absence. DIR.
| Woodr =, it is reported, is getting ready to
resume ais lectures; and the same authority
states & at a number Of students are leaving
the seminary. The Presbyterian considers
| il "a dark day" tor the institution.