The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-14
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

The Rev. j. w. Totten, pastor OF the
Methodist church IN Markham, Canada,
claims to have made l 800 pastoral visits
in the lest year.
There are nov about $500 Societies of
Christian Endeavor in all evangelical de-
nominations in America, containing more
than 100000 members.
The year 1888 will be memorial year in
religious anDals. In addition 10 the prot
estant bi centenary, the Pau Anglican
synod, and the Pan Presbyterian council,
there will be a worlds missionary confer
ence in London, attended by delegates
from the home and foreign missionary
societies.
In commenting on the present status of
the Andover Theological Seminary contro-
versy over probation after death, the In
terror concludes with; zone of these days
the Lord will arise and brush the whole
institution out of existence il it doesn't
BEHAVE itself better than it has been doing
for the last few years.
The Church of England is getting so
pressed for money that Canon Gregory
proposes to cut down the salary OF the
Archbishop of Canterbury from G15, 900 70
$4,000. and the salary OF the Archbishop
of York from $40 0o0 to IS 900. The house
Of the Bishop OF Ely is said to be too
costly, nd should De s0EQ.
The 100 college and seminary students
who lad ieIed themselves for foreign mis-
sionaTy work, aud who assem- bled last year
for Bible study, have Issued an earnest
and forcible appeal 10 the ehurc hes for funds
to enable them TO perform tneir VOWS of
dedication. And the number OF such stu
dents is said 10 have decreased to about
LOO, exclusive of about 500 women.
The steamship Sarn attain. which arrived
at Baltimore from Liverpool recently,
brought among her cargo five cases of
stained glsss memorial windows for Grace
Protestant Episcopal Church, of Baltimore.
The windows are the gifts Of Robert Bald
win, w. W. TAYLOR, Miss McCandish. Miss
johnson and Mrs RidSely, one OF the
windows represents the Incarnation and
the other the Pft ntstion IN the Temple.
A Talbattou, Ga, dispatch saws that a
great jubilee was held ia the Efric4n
Methodist Chprch here on he tEenty-thiri
anniversary of revival which started in
1865, 1t was during the days When the
negroes were rejoicing IN their new found
freedom that they held Thanksgiving serv-
ice. The enthusiasm became so great that
the services continued indefinitely. Years
passed, the old peuitsn's died off, and even
the preacher. The man who now occupies
the pulpit was born since the revival began.
AbCIC % Hs YET pEOnlee VI dOAbSnSuLs
1t is said to be the longest revival on record.
Mr.. Moody told one of his large audi.
encts in Louisville that a man came to
him to get aid for q chsrity in which he
was interested. He said that he had heard
that Mr.. Moody was getting 500 night.
Mr., Moody told him If be got 800 night
he would give 81 600 to his charity. Mr..
Moody went on to say 10 sthe audience
that he was not after money. He said
"10u needn't pay me penny if you dom
want TO. IfyOu can find any committee,
either IN Europe or America, that ever got
my services by offering money I'll give
give 81 600 TO you God delivered me
from love CT money when he took me from
my business. l have my failing, but,
Thank God, IL is not love of money. We
want you, not yours. We want your souls. u
The first great papsl jubilee which we
read OF was celebrated by Pope Boniface
VIII (the msgnanimous sinner, as he is
called in historv) in the year 1900. The
pilgrims who came that year amounted to
1000 600, and eye witnesses state that the
crowds were so great in the streets of Rome
THAI lots of people were trodden to death,
and 10 svoid greater accidents the Saint
Angelo bridge was divided in halves,
leDgthwise. so as to separate those who
went to Ssint Peters and those who re
turned from it, The Historian Villaui,
who lived at that time, says that the money
collectors at Saint Peters had to rake NJ
the money which the pilgrims gave during
the mass, and this collection amounted &c
5O,OUO horlns (ali in copper pieces