The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-10

the episcopal church does not arise from
the determination of these gentlemen
to think for themselves. Nobody
| nowadays is afraid of free
| thought. And burning heretics
at the stake is an Anticipated pastime-as
out of date az feasting upon jerked mis-
sionary in the Sandwich islands. What
is objected to is the insistence of the free
thinkers upon remaining where they no
longer belong; their refusal to follow their
free thought out of the fold; their au-
dacious attempt to propagate their cruel
ties under the sanction and in the name
OF 1.-THE faith once delivered to the saints"
Let DIR. Heber Newton go over to
the unitarians, and let DR.. Briggs con-
meet himself with the congregationalists
and no one would protest. In those rela-
tons their heresy would become ortho-
doxy They would be ain good and
regular standing" once more. As 1t is,
they are the wrong persons in the right
place IT'S case of misft. In politics,
when a man ceases TO be a democrat he
leaves the democratic party. Why should
not a theologian be as honest as poll
tician?
The great see the world at one emf by
flattery, the little at the other end by
cover is the same; but how different are
the mediums through which it is seen =
| GreriIe.
Women govern us. Let us render them
perfect. The more they are enlightened
so much the more shall we men be. On
the cultivation Of the mind of women de-
! ponds the wisdom of men. It is by women
that nature writes on the hearts of men,
| Sheridan.
Wisdom prepares for the worst; but
| folly leaves the worst for the day when il
comes.-CscR.
The virtues are lost in self-interest, as
rivers are lost in the sea.-RoclJ ducduld.
Vice has more martyrs than virtue and
it often happens that men suffer more to
be lost than to be sayed.-Ch Chariot Martyr.
Truth is not a salad that it must be
served in vine0ar-AnOn.
Slanderers are like flies that leap over
all mans good parts to light only on his
sores.-Ht and Wisdom.
Nip sin in the bud. It's easier blow
ing out a candle than house on fire.-Ib.
Supposing men to live forever in this
world, / can't reflect how it would be
possible for them to do more toward
their establishment here than they do
now.-Ld Bruyere.
Wealth is not his who gets it, but his
who enjoys it.-An0n.
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.-SoIo-
mon.
He that in youth thinks it too early to
be good will in old age find it too Late
MontGigne.
"Who am II" said Luther, when he
witnessed the patience of a great sufferer.
"Who am 1? worldly preacher in COM
parison with this great doer"-J. X. Duf.
Prayer can obtain everything; can put
holy restraint upon God, and detain an
angel until he leaves blessing; can arrest
the sun in his course, and send the winds
upon errands.-Jeremy Taylor.
1t is natural for man, when he looks at
the matter as q dispassionate specta-
tor, to appreciate what he esteems
to be right and to diapprobate what he
regards as wrong. His ideas of what is
right and what is wrong may be mistaken.
But present to him that which his age and
land consider right in one hand and
wrong on the other, and he will instantly
approve this and disapprove that. 1t is
only where self-interest comes in to dis
turb the moral sense and perplex the con-
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bad.
An illustration of this, both instruct
i've and amusing, may be found in any
low grade theater. Yonder in the gallery
are blacklegs and rowdies galore. Out on
the sidewalk they lie, steal and fight with
out conjunction. Self-interest moves
them. But now as they sit and watch the
play observe how they invariably SYM
pathize with the ill-used hero or
heroine. and against the heavy villain.
Mark how they hiss on the stage the very
acts they do in the street. And when the
curtain falls to slow music with vice
punished and virtue triumphant, thun-
der of applause sweeps through the house.
What is the explanation? Why. in the
theater these thugs and yahoos sit as
judges, cool, dispassionate, unconfused by
selfish connections with vice, while out of
doors they think with their passions and
reason with their appetites, so that con-
science is overborne and gagged.
Disraeli, in his Vivian Grey" makes
one of his characters say: "The people
are not often wrong" They may be and
frequently are in error in regard to the
facts; but they generally praise and blame
according to the principles OF sound moral
ity.
But where we are ourselves concerned,
the judgment is apt to be erring. We
need to correct it constantly by self
knowledge and religion.
On the banks of the Thames in the city
of London stands the statue of Robert
Raikes, the founder of Sunday schools.
He opened the first one ever gathered in
the old town of Gloucester. in England, in
1880. Raikes was a newspaper man-as
one might almost have guessed from his
enterpri sing spirit. He gave an account
of his school in his paper. The idea
caught like wild fire and kindled from
town TO town until all England was aflame.
When he died. in 1911, the Sunday school
system was firmly established throughout
Great Britain. Today 1t is q cosmopolitan
institution-among the most beneficent
earth knows, and OF all the philanthropists
Ia noble company crowned with beati-
tudes and scattering blessings among men)
no name or fame is more enviable than the
name and fame OF the founder OF Sunday
schools. We of today cannot win Raikes'
unique epitaph. But we can attain rep
utation almost as desirable. We can make
ourselves known and felt as the promoters,
extenders and inprovers Of Sunday
schools.
La MARITIME said. "Let me write the