The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-16
Religions Notes.

There are 702 pastors in the Reformed church
of France, of whom oil belong to the evangeli-
cal party and 19l to the liberal sectiOn.-The
CbUrckmGa.
The total receipts of the American home
missionary society from 1902 10 1887 was ST.
5S6,s9l, and the total receipts of "a societies
were Sl00,019,30S.
The late Mrs. Ellery Hills, of Hartford, be-
queathed 800 to the American missionary as
ISOLATION, and 5000 TO Berea college, Ky, on
the death of Caroline L. Bliss, of Springfield
Mass.
The subscriptions for the new building for
Plymouth church, Milwaukee, amounting TO
S150,O0O, have been secured. Great enthusiasm
is manifested by young and old in the enter
prise.
The building permit of the Catholic uni
versity at Washington, ID. c., calls for a
structure of stone and brick of four stories, 225
feet by 46 1t will be heated by steam, and will
cost $175,OO0.-The Catholic Rerjesc.
The presbyterian board of home missions re-
ceived during the closing year S3,527.30, or
within $1,000 of the $4,000 recommended
last year by the general assembly, and $4,000
more than in any previous year.
The Rev. William Taylor, bishop of Africa,
reports thirty-six stations started, and that
out of 40 missionaries only six men and six
women have died. The missions are self-sup-
porting, being cross between the method mis-
sions and that Of colonization.
In one of his recent lectures Prof Felix Adj
Ter denounced the project of building a great
cathedral in New York by the episcopalians,
declaring that the money could be more profit
ably devoted to the saving of lives in the tene-
ment-house districts.-Christida Union.
During the forty-eight years of the existence
of the foreign board of the presbyterian church
453 missionaries have been engaged in the mis-
sions east and west of the Mississippi river.
The foreign board has expended $4,000, the
80 a.,
trusted to it by the government for educational
work.
The will of the late Caleb Wheeler Reading
Pa, has public requests as follows: To the
Presbyterian board of foreign missions, $4,000;
to the Board of home missions, $4,000; TO the
Lincoln university at Oxford Chester county,
for the education of colored men, $1,000; 10 the
Board of.ministerial relief of the presbyterian
church, 5000.
At one OF the little mission chapels in the
Charlotte islands no less than 100 blankets,
valued at Sl.25 each, were contributed one
Sunday by the native congregation toward the
erection of new church. Measured by the
meager resources of these poor Christians, they
furnished magnificent example.-ChriStidIl
Adr0cQte, Nashville.
Col Elliott f. Shepard, the new proprietor
OF the New York Mall and Express, prints at
the head of the editorial page, daily a verse of
scripture giving as his reason that "men who
necessarily much absorbed in business
should be reminded of the words of the Heavenly
Father" lie is undaunted by sneers, and
says: cit is God they ridicule, not me-" and
declares that he shall continue the practice as
long as he owns the paper.
Prof William T. Sherwin died recently at
Boston, Mass. His name was widely known in
connection with the Chautauqua Sunday-school
assembly, OF which he had been musical di.
rector and associate manager. He was "A lead
ing Sunday-school worker the greater portion
of his life. His name is associated with several
popular musical collections. He was very sue
cessful as a conductor and trainer of chOuses,
and had lately been professor in the New
England conservatory OF music.
The Rev. Dr. Ball has closed his pastorate of
the Hudson-st. baptist church, Buffalo. He
will give his attention TO the founding of a
summer school, college, ETC., after the Chau-
tauqua plan of the methodists, on the 100 acres
of land recently purchased by the baptists at
Bluff Point on Keuka lake, below Hammonds-
port. Houses are now building there and a
short railroad between the place and Ham
mondsport is one of the features contemplated.
The college for the education of young men for
the ministry, il is understood, viii be an inn
posing ediice. The college will be on the plan
Of the colleges at Oberlin and Hillsdale, in
both of which DIR. Ball has for some years been
interested, and TO which he has given consider
able time.-Chriaian at lIork.