The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-02-20
Religions Notes.

Omaha has 101 churches and 255 saloons.
St Louis has twenty-five methodist churches,
worth S2SS, 600.
The Car of Russia wears ring in which is
imbedded piece of the true cross.
The monthly concert" originated with an
association of baptist ministers at Nottingham,
England about 100 years ago.
Queen Victoria has handed over TO st. Cath
arine's hospital the sum OF $4,000, as the sur
plus of the women's jubilee offering.
Japan legally recognizes the Christian Sab
bath and it is observed as a day of rest by all
government offices, public schools, banks, etc.
Eighty-five per cent of the whole number of
churches in the state of New York now
fermented wine, an advance of 10 per cent.
over last year.
The Sale Rivole, long notorious as a wicked
den, in the very heart of Paris, has been trans
formed by the McAll mission into a gospel tenn
pie where religious services are held every
night
learned Brahmin has said of India: "Of
one thing am convineed-do what we will, OPP
pose it rs we may, it is the Christians bible
that will sooner or later work the regeneration
of this land."-The Md Continent.
There Is being issued in Milan in half penny
numbers the entire bible in the Italian lam
guage; and this is meeting with large success,
$4,000 copies being taken. A similar attempt
is about to be made in Barcelona, Spain.-Ihe
Church Of To-Day.
Stoddard county Missouri, has a boy preach
er only six years of age. He never went 10
school day in his life and can neither read
nor write. 1t is said that his sermons are very
able; he is sound reasoner, a deep thinker and
he breaches like veteran. He quotes from
the bible from memory.
1t was stated at the recent convention of col
ored catholics in Washington that there are
twenty cOlOred catholic churches in this coun-
try, each one of these having school annexed;
besides sixty-five cOored catholic schools,
eight orphan asylums. and three refOrmatories.
The catholic hospitals, homes for the poor, etc,
are open TO both colored and white children.
About 500 children are taught in the schools,
and 800 children cared Tor in the asylums.
There is but one catholic priest, but there are
seven cOlored students.
Pledge-giving promotes growth in grace A
pledge made to our Lord in secret is a continual
well-spring of help in Christian living. We all
have movements of inspiration, of spiritual up
lifts, and it IS one of our saddeSt regrets that
these experiences are so fleeing. Every con-
secrated, prayerful gift is a round in the lad
der on which angels are ascending and descend
ing, and at the top of which stands our Lord
himself, making the place to be to us the house
OF God-the very gate to heaven. "-Life and
Light.
Gen. Harrison is reported, says the AdUdnce
ito have said that he never appreciated the
value of the Sabbath as he has during the last
six or seven months. He has had harbOr at
the end of each six working days into which he
could sail behind impossible breakwater,
ana II Is quite probable that this has saved his
lfe-for it would require a constitution of iron
to stand continuous strain of the kind Of
fiee-seekers will find that there are two walls to
scale-an outer wall of the civ-service rules
and an inner wall of the Sabbath and the seclu-
sion of the family"