The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-11

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True love is not veneered wood or
grained timber, but solid oak clear
through, and is not afraid of the auGer or
buzz saw.
The American tract society has just had
its sixty-seventh anniversary. During
the past year it employed l67 colporters,
who visited IL, 703 families and circulated
81, 1876 volumes. The society also granted
in cash and publications $4,000. The Ie-
ceipts for the year amounted to S3l6000
The American tract society has done
and is doing a noble work. Ii it would
initiate the example of the London
religious tract society and place its publ
cations in all bookstores, giving the dealer
a reasonable profit, it would exert a wider
influence than it does by its present sys-
tenn of repositories. The general public,
as things are. knows nothing of its books,
and no one visits the repositories save
those already acquainted and sympathetic
with the society's work.
We referred last Sunday to the bat as a
type of certain Christians The chameleon
is another type. This little reptile is re-
markable for the changeableness of its
color. Yesterday it was grey, today it is
brown, tomorrow it will be red. 1t color
depends upon the object next to it.
IT'S Just so with some Christians. They
take their color instead of giving il. In
China they hurrah for Confucius. In
India they are Brahmans. In Turkey
they swear by instead of at the Koran.
In Boston they are unitarians. In Prince
ton they are slant believers in the divinity
OF Christ. With Prof. Briggs they shout
for higher criticism. With Prof. Green
thew defend the bible and understand it
literally.
Christians of the chameleon type are a
curious set, They remind one of Drvden's
Characterization of the volatile duke of
buckingham in his "Absalom and Achi-
tophel.
Everything by starts and nothing
long"
Heaven will will have some glorious sur
prises for thousands of Woodworking, i'll
paid Christians who never made any
prominent figure in the world. Some of
them may set up alongside of the Mar
tyns and the Moodys-T. l.. Ctuler.
Though the trifler does not chronicle
his own wasted hours and vain words, they
chronicle themselves C. Hamilton.
Hard may be duty hard. but 10, it leads
Out into perfect joy. where pain shall oessei
God Sees thy striving and thy patience heeds,
And thou shalt find His peace.
When church is faithless to its duties
the real church is outside its walls in the
community.-H. ". Beecher.
Pride requires very costly food-its pos
SCISSORS happiness.-CdlOa.
When a man lives with God his life
shall be as sweet as the murmur of
the brook and the rustic OF the corn
Emerson.
From a common custom of swearing,
men easily slide into perjurY.-HierocLes.
When / pray l speak to God, but when |
read the bible God speaks to me- Moody.
He who has no inclination to learn more
will be very apt TO think that he knows
enough.-PolCeH.
We are firm believers in the maxim
that for all right judgment of man or
thing 1t is useful, nay, essential, to see
the good qualities before pronouncing on
the bad.-Cdrlgle.
The desire of power in excess caused
the angels to fall the desire of knowledge
in excess caused man to fall.-Bacon.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier
hand than kings and parliaments.-
Franklin.
The true, strong and sound mind is the
mind that can embrace equally great
things and small.-Dr. Johnson.
The writer's against religion, whilst they
oppose every system, are usually and
wisely careful never 10 set up any of their
own.-Edmund Burke.
If men wish to be held in esteem they
must associate with those who are esti-
mable.-LG BrUyere
Because right is right, to follow right
were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.
-1ennySOn.
The episcopal church in various lands
shows rapid growth. Its greatest strength
lies in England, where it has 81 bishops
and 24,090 clergymen. The United States
comes next, with 81 bishops and $500
clergymen. In Ireland and Canada its
ministry differs little numerically, having
in the former 10 bishops and SOY clergy
men, and in the latter 20 bishops and 300
clergymen. 1t is represented in Asia by
Is bishops and us clergymen in Africa,
by Is bishops and $50 clereymen in Aus
tralis, by 2l bishops and 269 clergymen.
and in Scotland by II bishops and $50
clergymen. There are also scattered do
ceses with 9 bishops and 100 ciergvmen.
The total register aggregates $50 bishops
and 81, I29 clergymen. Ills a strong work
ing force. The influence for good ought
to be and is tremendous.
We have had occasion to refer in these
columns more than once TO the anti
lottery crusade in Louisiana. The whole
country is to be congratulated upon the
election of Governor Foster, the anti
lottery candidate, and of a majority in the
legislature in sympathy with him. IL
disposes finally and satisfactorily of this
disturbing question, Tor it is now certain
that on the expiration of the present char
ter in 1894 the lottery incubus will be re-
moved from that state and from the ma
ton.
The press, almost equally with the pull
pit OF the land, lie entitled to the credit.
1t was a desperate struggle-not so much
a state as a national issue. Had not the
press and the pulpit of the union COM
bined to expose and condemn the evil, it
is more than doubtful whether the lottery
would not now borrow the famous utter
ance OF Daniel Webster and exclaim: II
still liyel"
Nature makes no mistakes in her book
keeping. She notes down in her journal
every sin OF omission or commission. And
by and by the dav of reckoning comes and
payment is exacted to the last cent. The