The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-08
o1SUNDAY THOUGHTSDo
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MORRLSE MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.

should keep a sharp eve upon the choir.
| Not in the sense of suspicion nor as the
police watch bunco steerers, but in the
interest of unity and decorum.
Too often the two ends of the church
are independent OF each other. The min
lister runs" the pulpit and the singers
run" the music. There is no common
understanding and no community of feel
ing and expression. Not long ago at
| funeral where the mourners were many
and the tears were plentiful, the oficiat-
ing clergyman, having finished his re-
marks, took up the hymn-book, looked at
slip of paper containing the musical
selections made by the choir-master with
out consultation, and scandalized the as
semby by announcing that the service
would close with the familiar hymn.
"Rallilujah! tits DONE"
On another occasion pastor had an
nouuced a sermon on Christian work. and
the choir prefaced it by singing Consider
the lilies, how they grow, they toll not,
they toll not" etc., musical exhortation
to idleness. Such mal-apropos incidents
must be expected when the minister
and the choir act without concert.
If the pastor is not a musician, let him
summon to his aid a music committee
from the congregation. Then let the
music to be rendered be passed upon an d
edited into consistency with the idea of
worship and harmony with the central
thought of the sermon. The result of
this would illustrate the difference be-
tween order and chaos.
There is a great deal of foolish talk now
adays about liberty in theology. men
must be left free to reach and express their
mature conclusions" we are told. "Schol-
arship must be unfettered sis the frenzied
shrek. Well, who denies this? Nobody
proposes to limit investigation. There is
no American iuquisition. Discussion is
free-who would paddock the lips of
speech?
But while this is true, it is also true that
it is intolerable and outrageous for think
ers who have outgrown their former con-
victions and passed over into an oppo-
sition camp to insist upon remaining in
their old positions and using that
platform for the teaching of their
new views. Let the new lights go
where thev belong and they will
find none to modest them or make
them afraid. It's only because they in
sist on remaining where they no longer
belong, and upon representing those
whom they misrepresent, that they are
"persecuted The heretlcs OF orthodoxy
would be orthodox if they would go over
openly to heresy. This is a distinction.
plain, undeniable. Let the wrong men go
to the right place.
An aristocracy is the best form of gov
eminent in the world-for the aristocrats.
At the general conference of the meth
odist protestant church the other day the
words pledging a wife to obey her hus-
band we're stricken out of the marriage
formula. The wives of the country struck
1t out long ago.
Ventilate the churches. The breath of
the best of men women, too is not worth
using twice.
A congregation of the Greek church has
Just been organized in Chicago by ortho-
dox Russian residents.
A number of stone idols supposed to be
600 years old and of new type have just
been unearthed among Aztec ruins in
New Mexico.
In the Golden Rule we find a clever
article on yong men as compared with
old men in history. The author shows
that in every department of religion and
philosophy, art and science, young men
have always been foremost actors. Goethe
published the SORROWS of "Werther" at
the age of twenty-five. Sheridan wrote
the two most famous of his comedies at q
verv early age "Our souls" says Mon
tagne, ARE adult at twenty" The fire
and dash, the enthusiasm and fresh ex-
perience of youth make this the period OF
adventure and endeavor.
On the other hand. what johnson said
OF Goldsmith. might be said of many an
other: There was nothing remarkable
about him when he was young. He was
q plant that lowered late in life" Steph-
enson did not learn to read until he
was past twenty-one. De Foe pub
lished Robinson Crusoe" when fifty
eight. DR.. Johnson wrote the
Life of the Poets" when he was
seventy. Milton composed Paradise
Lost" when old and blind. Dryden COM
menced the translation of the Kneid at
sixtv-three. Noah Webster studied seven
teen languages after he was fifty. In
craftsmanship look at Bismarck and Glad
stone.
Voltaire's famous motto, that ideas are
like bears-"Men never have any until
they grow up and women never have any
at alP'-is brilliant nonsense, like most
that he said and wrote.
The general assembly OF the presbyterian
church south, comprising the synods o.
the southern states. convened at Ho
Springs, Ark, last month and reported
, progress. The Rev. DR.. S. A. King o.
r Waco was elected moderator. During the
year the treasury receipts from all sources
were Sl30 1862. an excess over last yea
| of ST., 324.S3. This is a good sign. The
church which doesn't increase in its none
tary as in it's membership tables, is dealt
; struck.
/ The growth of full members in The
methodist episcopal church in 1891 wa
1865, and OF practitioners 25,92S.
The jubilee OF the Scottish free church
! is to be celebrated next year, and fall
, upon the same day OF the week aud OF tn,
. month on which the disruption occurred
viz: May Is. OF the 474 ministers VIII,