The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23
General Church Notes.

OeneTdi tnufth NOles.
The seventh session of the baptist congress
will be held in Richmond, Va, Dec. 40.
In the diocese of London, with population
of 100000, there were 81 ,S94 baptisms the last
year.
The presbyterian board of foreign missions
closed Its books May s. having received during
the fiscal year SOL, lS0.S0 for its current work.
Subscriptions amounting TO $4,000 were
taken al the Tompkins-ave church Brooklyn,
DR.. r. X. Meredith's. for the now edifce, which
IS to have a seating capacity OF 1000,
The Cumberland presbyterian church has
located a college at Marshall No, with an
opening endowment of 100000 and ample
funds for building purposes. The work COM
mences at once.
The pope has issued an encyclical in which
he expresses the hope that 'all nations and all
peoples, united in the faith by the bond of
charity, may form one iock under ore
shepherd"
The general conference Of the methodist
episcopal church. in session at the Metropoli-
tan Opera-house, New York, is notable body
of men. There are PSI clergymen, represent
ting III annual conferences, and 175 laymen,
representing a church membership of about
100000.
The ninth reunion Of the Z. S. Christian
commission, Sanitary commission, army chap
lains North and SOUTH and Good Samaritans
or the late war, the Red Cross, White Cross,
and other Christian benevolent organizations,
are to meet at Round Lake, Saratoga county,
New York. Aug. -, 1856.
OF the 1913 Fijians inhabiting the Fiji
islands, more than nine-tenths attend church
with fair regularity; where fifty years since
there was not a single Christian, to-day there
is not a single avowed heathen; all the Fiji
children are in the schools; the schools and
churches have wholly displaced the heather
temples.
The best way to understand the bible is to
begin TO put into practice those things which
we do not understand. Ii you want TO know
what faith is, just begin TO walk by faith; ii
you want to know what repentance is, begin TO
give Gods thoughts of you a place in your
heart, instead of your thoughts about yourself
- Words and Heapoas.
OF the thirty-seven presbyterian churches in
New England, eighteen, nearly half are i'm
Massachusetts. Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire have seven each, Rhode Island three, and
Vermont and Maine one each. Though a NUM-
Der of these churches of recent planting
others are of considerable age, the one in Lon
donderry, n. H., being now 80 years old.
The yearly meeting OF Friends" at GIens
Falls " y. the 9th, win bring together the
leading Quakers Of the country. Several hun
bred delegates will be present, and, contrary TO
custom in most other denominations, they VIII
pay their own board. The Friends" have met
at Glers Falls for several years, and the place
u
than Philadelphia itself.
The will OF the late Rev. George j. Tillotson
devises, in addition to family requests. =, 500
10 the A. NJ. ~, for the Tillotson collegiate and
normal institute of Austin, Tex, TO be used in
the erection of a second dormitory building;
500 to aid in building houses of worship for
young and weak congregational churches
among the freedmen; 500 each to the home
missionary and American tract societies; and
500 10 the American board.
After discussing the subject for nearly
week, the methodist general conference, by a
vote of 249 to 49, refused to seat the women
delegates at the present session, adopting the
amendment of DR.. Nelly of this city, referriug
the question to a vote of the annual confer
ences between now and the meeting of the
delegates, lay and clerical, participated in the
discussion, and, while the women did not lack
for champions among the orators, it turned
out as often before, that good speeches are not
alone convincing enough to make votes
Philadelphia Times, Ady 8.
Though the Parsees do not number more
than ninety thousand souls, and half of them
are in Bombay, they are welding a decided in
fuence in the modern civilization of the East
Long prosecuted race, they were finally
driven from their native country, eleven hun
dred years ago, by the MOsems, and settled in
Sugat, and from that point have become scat
tered through India. BY their fruits they are
making themselves known as worthy and eff
cient members OF society The queen of En-
gland has no more honorable and patriotic
subjects in England. They must have a deal
of that noble blood of the ancient Persian
coursing through their veins. They own and
occupy some OF the best residences in Bombay.
-LiteTiOr.