The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-19
Religious Thought aud Note.

heHRlOus duu 4NOees
1t is estimated that the protestant churches
of the United States contribute annually SILL
10000 for foreign missions.
Last year there. were reported forty-seven
protestant Jewish missionary societies and
spending nearly $4,000 annually. In the last
half dozen years the work in this field has
nearly doubled. The Jewish population of the
earth is about G, 100000. There is, then, one
missionary to about 1876 Jews.-ReIigtous
Herald.
The Rev. John Jasper of "sun do move"
fame, baptized 2S5 cOlored converts in the
James river recently. The Rev. Richard Wells,
pastor of the Ebenezer church. baptized nearly
five hundred. The baptizing took place in the
river near the free bridge, and Pastor Wells
was continuouslyat work immersing candidates
from II a. m. until $3.50 in the afternoon.
OF the late Father Damien the Religious
Herald congregational says: Another father
of the Roman catholic church has taken his
place. Let US remember this. Amid all the
superstitions and spectacular contradictions to
Christianity in that church. it has on its records
many of the noblest examples of the spirit OF
true and undefiled religion the world has ever
witnessed"
The statistics OF the United presbyterian
church were ready in advance of the meeting
of the assembly. They show that the body has
753 ministers, of whom 243 are without
charge" 903 congregations, and 101, SIS CON-
municants, an increase of 2,SS6 for the year.
There has been gain in the contributions for
home and foreign missions, church extension,
education and ministerial relief. The total
contributions for all purposes is 81, 1l0,S53, an
increase of about $4,000.
The church is getting so old that she is ster-
lie, and sons are not being born into the minis
try in proportion to membership as in the past.
The old mothers In former generations thought
the greatest thing this side of the kingdom OF
Iro, e. 60, Il 70 1fr,-
lister of Jesus Christ and live to hear him
preach. Many of such have departed from the
world, saying, "Let thy servant depart in peace,
for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. The
Presbyterian.
Beginning with the seminary year of 1Ss9-90,
the trustees OF Hartford theological seminary
have voted to open all courses of instruction to
women on the same terms as TO men. This
action is taken to meet the needs specially OF
women who are DESTROYS of preparing them.
selves for Christian teaching, for the missionary
field, or for any religious work other than the
passionate. Letters of inquiry and requests for
catalogues should be addressed either to the
to the registrar, Prof Waldo S. Pratt, Hartford,
Conn.
Why is 1t that one of the oldest missionary
organizations in the world should show signs
of weakness and decay? Here comes, limping
along in half-paralyzed sort of way, the Lon
uOn missionary society, bearing the record OF
nearly a century's approved and divinely &C
cepted labor, saying that its regular receipts
do not permit enlargement of its work; that
$4,000 are needed TO meet its present actual
needs, and that an additional annual income is
needed to maintain the efficiency of its present
missions; while extended work is left as q
pleasant day dream for the future by such as
can work themselves up to it What does this
mean?-N Y. Evangelist.
We have each one of us tendency, both
conscious and unconscious, to initiate the
words and deeds, and even tie thoughts, OF
those with whom we associate. But imi
tate not only others, hut ourselves also; and
hence, by our voluntary acts. we are placing
the letters of habit our future lives and
binding our future conduct by our present
acts and thus narrowing the area of the activ-
ity of our wills. If our daily actions be true
and strong and noble, and our thoughts are
high and pure, we are rendering 1t day by day
more difficult for us TO do anything false, OIL
weak, or base, or TO nourish low or impure
thoughts; but if our deeds and thoughts be
low and bad we are placing the possession OF
virtue and nobility further and further out oil
our reach, till at last it becomes moral impos
sibility.-Lord Justice Fry.