The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-04

1t is matter Of common knowledge that
hospitality is one OF the best agencies for
reaching men. The cordial greeting which
says welcome; which opens, not the chill,
spare room with its damp sheets, but
ones own cosy chamber; which bids a
guest not only take but partake; which
remembers and acts upon the words of
Jesus, Il was stranger and We took me
in"-such habit will win and save.
Besides the Imperial university at
Pekin, OF which DIR. W. A. p Martin is
president, there are no less than seven
colleges IL China, viz, st. Iolius Episco-
pal at Shanghai, Southern Methodist at
Shanghai, Methodist church north at
Nankin, Methodist church north at
Pekin, Methodist church north ut Fuh-
chan, Presbyterian church at Shantung
and also at Canton. The prospect of
raising up a native Christian ministry in
that vast empire is encouraging.
Apropos, competent authority asserts
that eyangiiization in China is carried on
by the distribution of bibles and tracts,
by schools, by itinersncis, by medical
ministrations and by work among the
women. And yet all that is done in these
ways is but a fraction OF the whole.
What then is the chief factor in the I'm
usual success OF the Christian prop
agandism in the celestial empire2
1t is private social intercourse
hand to hand contact. One of the Oldest
laborers in southern China says that
| seven-eighths of the members have been
brought in as the result OF private Chris
tians telling their neighbOrs and friends
about Jesus Christ.
= ~ ko,
ton. Why should not every believer be
an evangelist in Indianapolis as in Shang
hal or Canton?
The truth is, that if the world is ever
to be converted it must be by lay effort.
There are not ministers enough even to
superintend the job. The men to disciple
the masons are the masons. The men to
merchants. The women must evangelize
the women. Let each class christianize
itself from within. And the great work
must begin with one. Let each mend
one, saith the p-overb and the world is
mended. Human nature should be re-
constructed as Jerusalem was, by every
man building over against his own house.
Much is said about superfiuous women.
There are such. They live for self.
Human dolls are they; good for nothing
but to show off the skill of the dressmaker
or to admire The latest Glove OF bonnet"
They might step out of life entirely and
| nobody would miss them, unless il were
the ones who paid their bills, and nobody
would mourn for them, unless it were the
| shopkeepers to whom the bills were paid.
Hattie +. Bel.
One thing and only one in this world
has eternity stamped on it. Feelings pass,
| thoughts pass, opinions change. What
YOU have done lasts-lasts in yOu.-F. ".
| Robertson.
have never heard anything about the
resolutions OF theapostes, but a great deal
about the acts OF the apostles. Horace
Mann.
Strike from mankind the principle of
faith and men would have no more history
than flock OF sheep.-BuilCer Lytton.
Every man feels, instinctively, that all
the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action
James Russell Lowe.
! Use your bible Don't let it lie on tho
| comfortable IS a charm-like the horse
| shoe you nail over the door. The bible
| that is to Law hold of you is bible that
you lay hold upon.-LymanAJboH.
That man Is wisest among us, and has
understanding OF things divine. who has
nobly agreed with necessity. Epictet,iS.
| The equality OF men can only be ac-
complished by the sovereignty of God
| Lord BsGc0psfeld.
Every man in a Christian church ought
| TO feel that he is free to use the power OF
| the whole, yet not so as to take away his
! sense of individual responsibility. III we
have experience this inexperienced one
| has a right to say:"Put your experience
az bridge over this stream that / may
| cross on il. III " Beecher.
Let Us proportion our aims to our abili-
| tv, lest we provoke God to proportion his
! blessings TO our alms.-BishOp BeCeridge.
True love fears no winter No, no. Its
spring is and ever remains.--LUdtrig Tieck.
Painted fire needs no fuel; dead and
formal profession is easily kept up.-T.
| U0BtOn.
Unite yourself in the closest fellowship
with Christ so that YOU may present Christ
In your conduct.--Neysr.
To ind noble human soul is gain; tbs
nobler to keep it, and the pobIest and
most difficult is 10 save that which is al
ready lost.-HsrGer
A clergyman in England, remarks the
! Golden Rule, has expressed a doubt as to
whether any one could imagine Jesus
Christ as an officer in the Salvation Army.
| the Christian World of London replies by
saying that there are those who could Just
as soon imagine Jesus Christ as a Saliva
ton Army officer toiling among the poor
as they could imagine him bishop or
archbishop, with his 10000 or Gl5,000 a
| year and a seat in the house OF the lords
| These comparisons may SAVIOR OF irrever.
| ence but there is deep and valuable
suggestiveness about them, which may
well be pondered.
The Yale divinity school numbers III
students this year-more than ever be-
fore. The students come from sixty differ
ent colleges, and represent twelve denom-
| nations.
At the great convention OF women in
Washington last week, the ladies pledged
themselves to organize and agitate until
"the War Dragon should be slain. and
the Poverty Viper exterminated, and the
Gold Bug transfxed with Silver Pin"
This mapped out an extensive campaign.
But when a woman will she WILL depend
on 't'-ask any man who has a wife or
daughter
Mia Frances Upper OF Grand Rapids,