The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-18


In periods which are wanting inspira-
ton piety assumes the character of eau
tion.-Ecce Homo.
One great secret Of the moral disasters
constantly occurring, the shipwrecks of
character that each daily issue OF the
paper brings to our notice, lies in the
negativeness of current morality. These
defaulters, fraudulent cashiers and treas
urers that are published as deacons and
Sunday-schoOl superintendent, are not
men who believe in righteousness, but
men whose belief in righteousness has no
positiveness or affirnativeness.-C. IL.
Pdrkhrd.
As a general rule, self-contemplation
is power toward mischief. The only
way TO grow is to look out of ones SELF
There is too much introversion among
Christians. A shipmaster might as well
look down into the hold of his ship for
the north star as a Christian to look down
into his heart for the sun OF righteousness.
Ont and beyond is the Beecher.
Faith and Hope are twin sisters and
hardly TO be known apart. both as beau
tiful as they can be. Yet they need not
be mistaken for one another, because
between them there is this clear differ
ence-that while Hope expects Faith in
spects; while Hope is like Mary, looking
upward, Faith Is like Martha, looking at
ward. While the light in the ewes of
Hope is high, the light in the ewes of
Faith is strong; while Hope trembles in
expectation, Faith is quiet in possession.
Hope idealizes; Faith realizes.-Anon.
Most of the little mean work OF our
nature is generally done in a small dark
81 OF n lfffto hapE ~ the anhiaof in,
which We profess to be interested. Mrs.
n. b. Store.
Christ is not valued at all unless He be
valued aboYe all.-&. Augustine.
Here is boys essay on total abstinence.
IT'S a whole temperance volume in a
nutshell: 81 abstain from alcoholic
drinks because il | would excel as
cricketer, Grace says abstain ; as a walk
er, Weston says abstain as an oarsman,
Hanlan says abstain as a swimmer,
Webb says abstain as a doctor, Clark
says abstain; Us preacher, Farrar says
abstain Asylums, prisons and aims
houses repeat the cry, 'abstain!"
AS this is the woman's age, and as il is
often objected TO any enlargement of her
sphere that she would be driven to neglect
her household duties, we call attention to
two or three noted cases of remarkable
women who shone at once as scientists
and as housekeepers. Laura Bassi occu-
pied the chair of physics in the University
OF Bologna; Italy, for thirty years. She
became a professor at twenty-one; she
married. she had twelve children. Never
theless she did not permit maternity to
interrupt her university routine. Her
home, where she carried on many scien-
titic experiments, was proverbially orderly
and was Mecca of the mind
Mrs. Somerville, too, was the mother of
five children by her two marriages, yet
she continued to study and to write on
astronomy. Harriet Martineau sketched
her home. at was delightful to see her,
always womanly. always we'll dressed, no
appearance of self-consciousness, no OBJ
trusion of any popularity. A tea at her
house was a rare treat-beauty and order
on every side; the walls hung with fine
drawings, her music in the corner, and
her tea-table spread with good things"
A woman under any and all circum-
stances can be trusted to remain-a
woman.
The strongest part of the dam should be
that against which the current sets.
People talk about religion as being a
restraint, remarked a popular pastor,
gossiping in a circle of intimates; and it is
so in one sense-but it is very small
sense. There are in man certain destruct-
i've neutrality-suspicious. which make him
their sport, appetites which coerce his
better judgement, and religion puts
curb upon these and reins
them in. But it has larger aud better
uses than this. Fetters and gags do not
represent it. 1t directs more than it dams
| up; it terminates more than it stamps
out. God purities the soul much as we
| air our rooms. We do not keep the doors
and windows shut and throw in chemicals,
trusting that they will master and renew
the vitiated element; we open all the doors
and windows and ventilators and let God s
| pure air flow in from without, and thus
| purify the chambers. So it is with
religion. 1t throws open the win
dows Of the soul-the windows
| OF feeling, OF impulse, of imagination, of
| purpose-and sends q strong current of
vitalized grace sweeping through them,
until every apartment of our nature is
reoxygenized and made healthy and
| bracing. Negatives do not express re-
| hglous duty. The shall nots are less
frequent than the 'shalls." Religious life
is the slow growth of all the faculties,
and not the slow strangulation of
them. Religion no more cramps a man
than fins do fish or wings do a bird. 1t
supplies him with propelling power. A
Christian man should be an active man,
every fibre vibrating with energy. The
| gospel is a gospel OF liberty, not of slav-
cry. The more il works out its legitimate
effects in man, the more is he emancipated.
| The direct promise is: "The truth
shall make you free"
Some people are like snails; they carry
their church home around with them on
their back. They are never seen twice in
the same church. Religious vagabonds
are they, forever on the move, and with
out fixed abode. Nothing short of death
in their family gives them pastoral con-
nection. IT'S astonishing how many NOR
ibund parishioners the pastor of city
| church has.
Snow Two Miles Deep.
lChicago Tribune
| eyes, have been in country where
the snow is two miles Deep" said N. b.
Lazard, mining expert from Tombstone,
Ariz., at the Palmer house yesterday. Mr..