The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
Religious Noto and Thought.

A Mercer (Pa.) minister will wed the woman
unanimously Endorsed by his congregation"
pulpit of oxidized brass was dedicated at
Detroit last Sunday in memory OF the late
Bishop Harris.
The Sunday-school year book of the meth
odlst episcopal church reports 25,096 schools
with 2,0S6, 34S scholars.
Mr.. Flagler, the owner of the Ponce de Leon
hotel in st. Augustine, Fla, has given $4,000
toward the erection OF synagogue IN that city.
America is another name for opportunity.
Our whole history appears like last effort OF
the Divine Providence IL behalf of the human
race.
Heaven is coming to be looked upon less as a
place than as a state, and less a state OF
having than as a state OF being.-Christidn
Register.
Six hundred and forty-nine convicts were re-
Gently received into membership of a colOred
church in Baltimore, the Centennial methodist
episcopal.
The presbyterian board of foreign missions
received 1901, 1880 during its last fiscal year
great advance over any previous year.-Ihe
Unirersdlia.
The only way to the millennium is by the dis
ciplining of the nations through the agency of
the living church of Christ. Steady work Will
do more to hasten it than much prOphesying.-
Christian AdrOcGte, AdshCHte.
About eighteen and half million persons, it
u,
down by the international Sunday-school les
son committee That committee recently met
at Saratoga for its nineteenth yearly session
and mapped out the work for 1891.
DIR. Bowling, the new pastor OF one OF the
Albany churches, is evidently well endowed
with the gilt of humor. In the course OF
statement of his belief, which he read to his
people few evenings ago, he remarked: Il
believe there are some things which cannot be
answered by any theologian in the world-not
even the youngest"
IL the railroads were to universally adopt the
Vanderbilt systems order no one would have
any advantage in quickness of dispatch be-
cause of Sunday operation, and the tens OF
thousands of men employed in the handling
and transportation of freight would be afforded
a day of rest, which il is not only desirable but
just they should Philadelphia Ledger.
Young Mr. Vanderbilt will endeavor TO in
fuse some practical religion in his railroad BUSH
ness. Sunday work among freight employees
will be reduced from 1873 to 80 per cent. This
purely an experiment. and its purpose is to
allow the men TO observe the day of rest at
home. The most unreligiOus feature about II
is that the reduction also means reduction OF
pay.-BGhiRl0Te american.
The cessation of ordinary freight traffic on
Sunday over large part of the New York
Central railroad system is an exceedingly in
teresting experiment. Mr.. Depew speaks hope
fully but not with entire confidence as to the
result. One of the most valuable tests which
it Will afford will be seen in the attitude of the
employees toward the new regulation. The
PRINCIPAL secular argument against Sunday
labor is that il commonly involves a great per-
sonal deprivation. 1t will be most interesting
to note whether or not the men who are con-
cerned In this movement value days rest
more than a days pay-NelC York Tribune.