The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-03
RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE AND
INCIDENT.

bishop Horne
LYMAN Abbott says that every home ought
to be a church. True, and every church
ought to be a home.
Johnny Gust after Sunday-school)-S
Jack, what is q sOckdOlager? Jack-Why,
don't you know? It's what they sing in
church when they get ready to 90 home.
Bishop Watterson. of Columbus, O., says
that the statute forbidding Catholic societies
to hold night dances is the same in his do
cese as in Cincinnati, and it was made not to
be dead letter but to be observed.
While the average proportion of churches
to the population in the United States is one
church u every SIG people, Il is in Boston
one 10 Loco, in New York one to 400 in -.
Louis one 10 ,, 500, while in some cities il is
but one to every 5000.
In January, 1873. there were seven EpiscO-
pal churches among the three tribes of
Indians in NiObrara; now there are thirty
six churches. four boarding schools, and last
wear The Indians contributed Il 500 toward
the support of these institutions.
At the recent presiding elders convention
in New u DIRK, member narrated tale of
two boys in his district: \ donkey was pass
know what is?' why, yes" he answered:
that is q donkey. | have seen lots OF them
in the theological gardens
Among the branches of Plymouth Church
is a SUnday-SchOOl in the somewhat remote
town of Tirumangaam in the Madura dis
trict OF India. The building in which the
school assemblies was paid tor entirely By
scholars of Plymouth school in Brooklyn,
and IL IS supported by them.
Bishop Warren. of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. says Utah is the hardest mission
airy field the church has. I'VE have had fifty
missionaries who have from time gone there
full OF zeal, full Of faith and the Holy Ghost.
One by one they have been discouraged.
But the new day has dawned; the Govern
ment Is asserting its power.
The Baptist missionaries in India are much
worried that the only Scriptures available
for circulation among the natives are the
TRANSACTIONS made by the Presbyterian mis-
sion in Lodiana. In these, the word Tor bap-
tism used may mean sprinkling rs well as
immersion. Ii is now proposed TO use past
ers'' containing the word for ''immersc' over
the Objectionable word in the Presbyterian
Bible
a little Swedish girl. walking with her
father on 4 starry night, was 50 attracted by
the brilliancy of the sky, all lit up with
twinkling stars from one end 10 the other,
that she seemed TO be quite lost in her think
ing. Her father asked her what she was
thinking OF so intently. Her answer was:
Il was inst thinking If the wrong side Of
heaven is 80 glorious what must the right
side be-
To abide in Christ IS the secret OF perse-
veTance in well-dOing. Work. once taken up
earnestly and entered upon with hopes which
/ experience shows TO have been too sanguine.
pals by degrees upon the taste, becomes irk-
| some, ana at last ii becomes discontinued.
/ So il will De- 20 il must be, where it is either
taken up from lower motives, or where We
/ do not habitualiy realize that it is Gods
work we are doing.-Rev. DR.. Pigou.
The Methodist Review does not wholly APP
| prove the diction and photography of the
/ British Companies OF Bible Revisers, re-
! marking with naivete: "rhe literary world
\ on this side of the Atlantic at least will
/ certainly regret the British obstinacy in mos,
/ OF these peculiaritieS. Ii is not wise to dis
! figure the sacred page unnecessarily, nor IL
! lay causeless stumbnng-blOcks in the way OF
the common reader. Ii brings the Bible into
| discredit when It's language Is made diSsO
pant with the rules Of decency and Orthog
/ raphy.
new ct called Jezreelites has sprung
! up in Kent Ii j. learned that their founder
was James White. who gave himself out tC
| be messenger Of God. and took the name o
JeZreel He died last March. His follower:
style themselves The New and Latter HOus,
OF Israel and teach that for them highel
state Of bliss is reserved than for other Christ
ians. Their creed Is strange combination
OF the law and gospel, and they have bough
at Gillingham twenty acres or ground OF
which they have begun the erection of al
assembly hall and other buildings which vii
cost Ll00O0o.
The most remarkable revival in progress il
The world is going on in the Telugu Islands
The missionary work among these Telugu
has been attended with marvellous success
the baptisms in each year being numbere'
| by the thousands. Now the idoiatOrs seek &
get even with the missionaries and win tn
people back to the faith OF their fathers
They 90 among the Christian converts bear
Inc on bamboo poles small idol houses. The
make a sreat noise with drums aud shouting
and generally attract crowds OF people. Tn
missionaries say that there has not in half
century been such a revival of idolatry.
The Herald OF Health thinks that kissin
the Bible by Jurors and witnesses when the
are sworn. j. very wrong use OF the bOol
IL Is kissed by all sorts OF people, clean an
uncean. and S0On becomes sOdden wit
grease and foul with filth. and dangerous I
the health Of those who put their lips to i
"Such use OF it, it seems 10 Us. is unwa
rantable. The Bible says, Swear not at al
neither BY the heaven. for il is the throne
God: nor by the earth. for it is the fOOtstot
OF His feet; nor by, Jerusalem, for il is ii
city OF the great King. Neither shalt tho
, swear by thy head, for thou canst not mai
l one hair white or black. But let your speed
be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; and whatsoever
, more than these cOmeth of the evil one =
| Tho Tndav