The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27


of duty and conscience to attend the
regular service for the next twelve months
the sum total of the efficiency of the
churches would be more than doubled.
Among the things that would be in
creased are the courage OF the congrega-
ton, the interest and enjoyment of all at
each service, the force and freshness OF
the preaching (for there is no inspiration
in empty pews), an enlarged desire to
send the gospel to every creature, a readi-
ness to bear a part in the burdens of the
church, and a multiplied law of the cause.
Why might not our churches, by personal
solicitation and mutual covenanting try
this for spring campaign?
The good is the worst enemy OF the
French Saying.
The best apologize for Christianity is
Christisn.-Prot. DrtmmOnd.
There are certain knotty and Grabbed
Christians whose integrity everybody re-
spects, but whose character nobody loves.
Christians have no right to TO make their
religion offensive when they might make
1t attractive.-T. L. Cuyler.
To do or not TO do, to have
Or not 10 have, leave 20 thee;
To be or not 10 be, l leave;
They only will be done in me;
All my requests are lost in
Father, Thy only will be done.
ICHARLEs WESLEY.
It is the duty of every man to add some
thing to the sum of happiness IN the
world-not only to aim 20 do, but to actu-
ally do so.-CdrlOs Martyr.
This little hand can hide the sum-
Whuefeld.
We talk much of moneys worth, vet
perhaps may one day be surprised to find
that what the wise and charitable public
give to one hours pleasant warbling Of
Lucia would fill an Alpine valley with
happiness and pour the waves of harvest
over the famine of many Lammermoor
-Ruskin.
The devil loves TO sit down and look at
people who worry.-AnOn.
The greatest battlefelds in the world
are in the hearts of man. The great strug-
giles are within.-N. ". Thomas.
OF all diabolical drinks. says druggist,
gin is the most diabolical. The common
gin is made from the refuse Of English and
Scotch whisky stills, favored with turpen-
tine, juniper, coriander seeds, cardamons,
capsicum, or almost anything else that
happens to be handy. Gin is more adul-
terated than any other liquor. and every
manufacturer has his own method of max
ing il sharp and bitter. It's not so much
affected in this country, but it is the COM
mon drink of the poorest of the English
people, and it's prominent effect is the
gin liver" which Is SO frequently the
cause of death among lOw-caste British
drunkards.
The door Of heaven is opened on earth,
4 - l.. l. L = l.
to use or not as he chooses. The elect are
whosoyer will, and the nOn-elect are who
soever won't. The choice is with us.
The pious Philip Nezi was once visited
by young lady who accused herself of a
propensity to gossip He had her 90 to
market, buy chicken just killed and still
covered with feathers, and walk a certain
distance, plucking the bird as she went.
The woman did as directed, and returned
TO ask the meaning of the injunction.
"Retrace your steps," said Philip, "and
gather up, one by one, all the feathers
you have scattered" possiblew quoth
away, and the wind has carried them in
all directions"
well, my child" said the saint, so is
it with your ISLANDERS. Like the feathers
which the wind hath scattered, so have
they been waited every whittier. Call
them back now ii you can"
Apropos of legends, we recall another
of st. Cuthbert, which teaches another
lesson. One night he saw an angel weep
ing. "Why weepest thou" asked he
NAY, Cuthbert," replied the angel, Il
weep for thee. Thou lowest wassail and
wantonness, and art blind TO ali sweet
visions of truth and heaven" The youth
thereafter devoted himself to better
things. His face, whenever seen through
the windows of Milrose, had the bright
ness of the sun.
A contemporary contends with some
show of reason, that commonplace men
make the best husbands. Your genius
thinks too much of himself to think much
of anybody else. Just as your beauty is
invariably vain and conceited, and solic-
itous of undue attention, so your Solo
mons are too self-centered to be COM
Portable mates. Mr.. Profunditv is seldom
willing to take a woman as she is, and find
in her that mixture of sense and nom
sense, good and bad, vanity and selisacri-
fee which are her usual ingredients But
your Dldfn uODOuN. VINO uOebu pretend
TO talent, accepts his wife as heaven has
made her-consults her, defers to her,
gives her her own way and is happy. Be-
tween Lander Moonshine who has writ
ten tragedy in five acts, and Tom Smith,
who is in business, Miss Levelhead had
best accept the latter.
Macaulay, the famous essayist of the
Edinburg ReUielc, was an infant prodigy
A servant spilled some hot coffee on his
lap, and when the hostess asked him how
he felt the four-year- Older answered
Thank you. Madam, the agony has
abated." He had plot of ground
marked out with shells, and these the
maid servant threw away as rubbish.
Cursed be Sally" said the angry infant
'for it is written cursed is he that rem ov-
eth his neighbours landmark"
The boy Macaulay was a fitting father
to the man Macaulay, OF whom Lord
Palmerston once said II wish / was as
sure OF anything as Tom Macaulay is oil
everything"
Suicide is the course of sneaks, for as
saith George Sewell, when all the
Establishments of life are gone the cowa I'd
sneaks to death. the brave live on. We
have no right to seek death. It's fol
death TO seek us.