The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-17
Religious Thought and Note.


DIR. Pierson estimates the money annually
raised for carrying on protestant foreign mis-
sions at about ST. 100000.
The Soudan is said to have been almost total
" neglected by protestants a field for mis-
sionary effort 1t has population of about co.
100000 people.
In Union theological seminary at Hampden-
Sidney, Va, fourteen young men have
signifed their willingness to go as missionaries
to foreign lands.
Ninety. five per cent of the students of Frank
lin college, New Athens, o., are protesting
Christians. Sixty-fve per cent. of the gradu-
ates of the college have entered the ministry.
Princess Eugene OF Sweden is paying the ex-
penses of a missionary house for the Lapland-
ers in the northern part of Sweden, over two
hundred miles north of the arctic circle.-Re-
hgf0us Herald.
During the past year the net gain of new
churches in the United States was 63S4; of
ministers, 4,505y and of members, 774,S64. On
an average. therefore, seventeen congregations
were gained, twelve ministers and 2,12O menu
bers.
The managers of the building fund Of the
temperance temple of the Woman's Christian
temperance union in Chicago have issued
S5O6O00 worth of stock in order to facilitate the
collection of the 100000 necessary for the
structure.
Various missionary societies of England are
agltatlnQ among the slIp-OWnerS ana steamship
companies of Great Britain for better obser-
vance of Sunday, especially in foreign porta A
circular letter to this effect has been addressed
to ship-owners and directors of companies
The China Mall.
One of the most striking characteristics Of
Christian civilization is seen in the efforts now
being made in England to extend substantial
aid to the millions in China who are suffering
from grievous famine. The reports from that
distant country are painful in the extreme
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The receipts of the American board of the
first six months of the financial year were
little less than $4,000 about s., 500 less than
those OF last year for the corresponding period.
Legacies have fallen below those OF last year
by nearly S53 COO that the total falling of is
about 500, 000.-MiSsiOndTy Herald.
There is an Unreasonable difference, an alb
solute and irreconcilable antagOnism between
making proselytes and preaching the gospel,
between winning members to church, creed
or party, and winning souls to Christ; between
trying to make men join your church and tell
ing men the good news that irradiates your lie.
Lyman abbott.
The largest congregation in the world, num-
boring $500 members, is on the island of
Hawaii. Over 10000 Eeejians gather regularly
for Christian worship. Madagascar, with its
queen and 100000 of her subjects, is ranged on
the side of the cross In Friendly Islands there
are $4,000 Christians, who contribute $4,000 a
year to religious objects.
The Roman catholic church in Great Britain
is well organized. In England and Wales
there is one archbishop Westminster, six
teen bishops with two sufiragans and one car
dinal (Newman); there are 1850 priests, serv-
ing 1906 chapels, churches and stations, with
considerable number privately employed. In
Scotland there are two archbshops, four
bishops and 341 priests. Ireland has four arch
bishops, with twenty-eight bishops.