The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-13

fucius recommended. Those are: HUI
manity, justice, order, prudence and
rectitude.
We have wondered in this country at
the ado in Germany about the proposed
new school laws, and at the angry opposi-
ton which has driven the late Chancel-
lor Caprivi out OF office and forced the
kaiser to withdraw the bill.
Late information explains the hubbub.
Il seems that the school law sought to
transform the public schools into secta-
rian Institutes to compel all teachers to
be educated in sectarhn normal colleges.
and give priests and clergymen the right
of inspecting these colleges. Twas Shew
link added to the chain which bound
church and state together-fourteenth
century legislation attempted in the nine
teenth. Hence the clamor Even in i'm
perial Germany It's felt that pubic edu-
cation should be non-sectarian.
attended funeral in a crowded church
where there was but one really happy
lace, and that was the face OF the dead
sleeping amid white fowers.-T. DeHM
Idlmdge.
Late repentance is seldom true, but true
repentance is never too ate.-Anon.
A sermon signifies thrust; and there
fore In sermonizing it must be our aim to
use the subject in hand with energy and
effect, and the subject must be capable OF
such employment. To choose merely
moral themes will be to use a wooden
dagger; but the great truths of revelation
are as sharp swords.-SpurgeOn
he who knows not how to be silent
knows not how TO speak.-ZOrOdsteT.
Some books are TO be tasted, others to
be swallowed and some few to be chewed
and digested. Reading maketh full man,
conference ready man and writing an ex-
net man. And therefore, if a man write
little, he had need have great memory
ii he confer little, have a present wit, and
If be read little, have much cunning TO
seem to know that he doth not.-Bdcon
Histories make men wise. poets witty,
the mathematics subtle, natural philos-
ophy deep, morals grave, logic and
rhetoric able to contend-Ib.
Never raise your voice when your heart
is dry. Let your heart shout first; let it
begin within.-C Christmas Eyans
When a man acknowledges that he
wiser today than he was yesterday.-Pope
A philosophical contemporary contends
that the true remedy for drunkenness lies
not in the law, but in the gospel. The
drink habit is the product of two sins.
Greed stands on one side of the counter
and appetite on the other. Law attempts
to erect barrier between the two; the
pnanal Mt N fay "a cyra1H NJ # r,v,a
soul and appetite out OF the other. 1t is a
slow process, but a sure one. The longest
way round is the nearest wav home.
There are two ways OF curing sin: one by
restriction from without, the other by
inspiration from within. The one wav
forbids the boy to run IN the streets at
night; the other makes the home so at
tractive to him that he does not wish the
companionship of the street The one
way hedges Sunday round with prohibit
tons; the other makes it the most joyous
day of the week. Law says, thou shalt
not steal: the gospel inspires love for
ones neighbor. The religion of law is a
religion OF restraints and regulations; the
religion OF the gospel is religion Of in
spiration and life. The one is the ten
commandments; the other is the sermon
on the mount.
Sometimes, however, the ten command
ments and the sermon on the mount go
very well together.
Pope Leo, at the age of eighty-two, uses
glasses only when reading. At seventy be
could see better than at twenty, as in his
| Younger days he Was very near.sighted.
| In many ecclesiastical matters nowadays
he is very far-sighted.
A diamond is not is nothing but glori-
fed charcoal-from which wo learn that
the brightest light may come out of tho
| darkest bed.
We are glad to learn that the U. S. gov
eminent has undertaken 10 redress the
wrongs suffered by American mission
aries in Turkey. These unoffending men
were arrested without excuse, their
bibles and other books were coniscated
and their property was spoiled. Had
this been done by mob IL would have
been more excusable. though no less an
infringement of right For n mob has
many heads but no brains. But it was
the arbitrary act OF a Turkish governor
who ought TO be retired to private life
The missionaries are no less entitled to
protection than the traders, 80 long as
they conduct their operations within the
laws, as they should seem TO have done in
this case. Fold around them the stars
and stripes.
Good books are tho true kings of
thought
--doad but &C 'ptrod soverclgus,
Who still rule our spirits from their urnA
Twas the saying OF one OF old that "ho
who will watch for providences shall have
providences 20 watch" aud Haynes
compares them TO the attentions
OF ga noble friendship, which is
never imprudonlly curious and familiar