The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-24
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE, AND
INCIDENT.

Gods Spirit falls on me as dew drops on a rose,
If butlik a rose to him nv heart unelose.
A missionary writes from Ceylon that
while on short pleasure tour she addressed
nineteen bands of hope. They are con-
Quoted the same as in America and are do
ing much toward the education of the
young on the subject of temperance.
We barter life for pottsge: sell true bliss
FOR wealth or power, for pleasure or renown;
Thus, Esau-like, our Father s blessing miss,
Then wash with fruitless tears our faded crown.
Lord l have tried how this thing or that
thing will ht thy spirit. / can find nothing
to rest on, for nothing here has any rest itself.
Oh, Centre and Source of Light and Strength
Oh, Fulness of ali thIDgsl i come back and
join myself to Thee!-Arthur II. Hailam.
The New York Observer says: "Itis only
too easy to misunderstood. When Bishop
Bedell preached in st. Georges church his
memorial discourse of DR.. Tying. manS Of
his bearers were puzzled when the modest
bishop seemed to say: There were giants
in those days; now they are nearly all gone
only Lee and are Left His sermon, now
printed, furnishes the explanation, for the
bishop SAID, Only Lee and Dyer left"
The American Church in the Via Ma
zlonale, at Rome, has just been decorated
with q stupendous Venetian mosaic of car
toon of Burne Jones' representing Christ
surrounded by the celestial company, as de-
scribed by Isaiah Ezekiel and st. John. In
the work, which measures $50 square feet,
there are no fewer than sixty figures, some
OF them three yards high, while the repro
duction of the grand cOloring is regarded as
a triumph of masaic art.
The correspondent of an Eastern paper in
giving report Of the recent annual meet
ing of the Connecticut Temperance Union
and Humane Society says: ''It is no won
der that warm-hearted Christian minister
gets stirred up once in while. DIR. Lori
mer, of Chicago, in a recent sermon on the
power that Christians should possess, said
that he was poor enough, but If any men,
bers of his congregation were helping pay
his salary with money received from rent
ing buildings for rum-shops or worse places,
he wanted them to keep their money, for he
was not poor enough to take that"
Religion cuts very little figure in the mat
rimonial alliances OF kings and queens; that
is when they are not Catholics If Chris
tian TX of Denmark, who is Lutheran. in
few years hence should gather his family,
including his son-in-laws about him, he
would have before him Lutherans,. English
High church, Russian, Orthodox, Greek
Catholics and Roman Catholics. The Earl of
Cumberland is Lutheran, the Prince of
Wales is High churchman, the Emperor of
Russia is a Russian Orthodox, the King of
Greece is a Greek churchman and Prince
/ Valdemar's children are to be Roman Catho-
lics.-Western Waterman.
The Rev. J. L. Scudder, of the First Con-
| gregational church of ST. Paul, is reported
as having this to say on a popular sport
''Tobogganing is a cheap and democratic di-
| version, and any one who can summon up
| the courage can take a whiz himself. 1t
stirs his blood up nightly and makes every
hair stand on end. By the the time he has
reached the end of the slide and drawn his
toboggan back again, he is in a warm and
| physically hilarious condition. He feels his
| youth coming back to him again, and is
suddenly seized with desire to make some
kind of frightful noise. Thank God / say
| for tobOgganing, that drives dull care away
| God smiles upon such scenes as these, and il
| we are truly his children we can serve him
as we'll by sitting on toboggan as by kneel-
| ing on hassock. Then let us go on and en-
| JOY it, both in the name of health and the
name of the Lord.
The late DR.. Samuel Wolcott, the eminent
Congregationalist minister, in his later life
wrote many hymns, and has left on record
/ an account of how he began to do so. He
| was 6fty-six years old, and had never put
| two rymes together, and had taken it for
| granted that he was as incompetent to write
| hymn, or even a stanza, as to work mira
| Gle. However," he says, 81 resolved that
would try to write hymn of five stanzas,
and proceeded to plan it precisely as | would
| plan sermon. / said. the first stanza shall
| be recognition of God the Father; the Sec
ond a recognition of Christ the Redeemer;
| the third prayer to God the Father; the
| fifth shall blend the two in one address
A more perfect recipe for wooden stanzas it
would be difficult to frame" The result was
the hymn beginning, "Father, L own Thy
voice, and the author was much surprised
| to find that he bad written what could actu-
| ally be sung Many of his hymns have be-
come favorites throughout the country.