The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
Religious Notes.

The will OF Mrs. Mary T. Cutler OF South
birmingham bequeaths her estate on Cherry
ST, valued at 200. and 81 800 in cash ad-
ditiOnal, to the American missionary assOcia-
ton and the New West commission.
The number of converts in the Japan mis-
sion of the American board has increased in
fifteen months from 1926 to 7,093, gain of
2,SOl. his Is the most remarkable record in
any mission of the board, except the Sandwich
Islands.
4 medical missionary society has been in
successful operation in New York for seven
years. The society is unsectarian, as is evil
denced by the fact that the forty-three students
in training during 1887 belonged to nine differ
ent denominations.
In the United States alone there are now
about 10000 Momen's Christian temperance
unions, comprising a membership of 10000.
In addition there is the Worlds WOmen's Chris
tian temperance union, and all the foreign in
terests in other countries, Minneapolis Jour
nal
Anything that God takes the pains to create
Is worthy of the reverent attention of u.s. his
rational creatures. True science is the hand
maid OF true religion. Those who assume that
there Is antagOniSm between them need more
knowledge on the ore hand and more humility
on the Other.-ChristiGR Adc0cdte.
The beautiful hymn, "GOd be with you. !"
which translated into the Chinese language
by DIR. Henry w. Porter, was sung by his
cuuItL Nlltu DhIAlnI With Ulil OF MS return 10
this country. The author OF the hymn, DIR. j
l.. Rankin, ID. D.. has parish worldwide, and
his songs will be sung down the ages.
The third professorship endowment in the
Pacific theological seminary. San Francisco
prof. |. +. DwinelPs) has at length been com
pleted-S25,O 900. Mr.. c. p. Huntington, the
railroad magnate, has paid $4,000, Mrs Charles
Croker $1,000 and Mr. Moses Hopkins, who
has before given $4,000 to Hopkins academy,
has pledged 5000.
The true life is not thinking OF dreaming but
doing. To wait for great opportunities, which
may never come, Is 20 miss the little within
our reach. For rs surely as the house is built
brick upon brick and stone upon stone, so the
little deeds, the daily tribes, the apparently
ordinary actions, comprise in their aggregate
human life and human achieYement.-,Ie1ciJ,
Messenger.
in the seven years in which the Rev. J. IL.
BarrOws ID. D., has been pastor of the First
presbyterian church, Chicago, ILL.,, AS have
been added to the church, and 1872 have come
into the membership of the mission chapel I'M
der Its care. The reported benevolent contri-
buttons amount to $491 ,O36, and unregistered
gifts would bring the sum mp to nearly
million dOllars.-Presbyteria Obserrsr.
There is a ied Of usefulness for the religious
press which Is almost entirely unOccupied. IL
Is the field OF truly independent religious Jour
nalism- What we need is a journal that is
broad enough 10 treat religious issues on n
plane that Is broader than the limitations of
the divergent denominations. Everybody
would need to take such paper, and the daily
press furnishes in its treatment Of public ques-
tons in their religious phases the only speci-
mems at present OF this type OF journalism
Boston Herald.
The church is not great collection of men
and women for rest, or amusement, but the
army of the living God to conquer the world.
The Christian life is not a state of ease but a
condition of earnest conflict. To sing songs of
victory il well. but the battle must be fought
first. The heart is 10 be kept; the graces Of the
spirit are TO be nurtured; temptations are 10 be
met and overcome; the world, the flesh and the
devil are 10 be conquered; the salvation of the
perishing around us and in the remotest parts
OF the earth is to be sought and God alone is
to be exalted.-PreSbWeTia Banner.