The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

french. william Eltcry OnamlnR. Odrul-
nal Newman, Spurgeon, Dean Stanley,
f. b. Meyer, Macdonald. Theodore s.
Cuyler, Miss Haragal. Frances Power
Cobbe and Phillips Brooks
From the writings of these men and
women, as the Christian az Work reminds
us. are culed by far the greater part of
the choice sayings which make up the
day-by-day books, the treasured volumes
to which We love to turn in quiet, medi-
tative hours, and from which we derive
SO much comfort, strength and inspiration.
The weekly above referred TO thinks
that there is something about true deyo-
tional writing which deties analysis. Its
power comes not through any special
grace of literary expression, nor through
any special requirements OF literary art,
but chiefly through the grace of the spirit.
The first requisite here is heart all agow
with love to God and man. When this Is
wanting no amount of literary genius or
culture or effort can produce true devo-
tional literature.
But though thus difficult, and because
thus difficult, tits the most remunerative
form of literary production. The religious
papers will always accept and pay liber-
ally for anything and everything of this
kind Reader. stir up the gift that is in
this above all. warm thy heart at the
altar of the spirit, and then dip thy pen
and write
IT'S said that Westminster abbey is now
sdays constantly thronged by the admir-
ers of the lamented laureate, each eager
to lay flower on his tomb, or to touch it
with volume of his poems. All classes
are represented in this new pilgrimage,
and the unusual degree of homage paid
to the memory of fennyson is a matter of
universal comment in London.
The familiar saving about "robbinR
Peter to pay Paul" was first used when
Westminster abbey was called ST. Peters
cathedral, and when money was needed to
settle accounts in the neighboring cathe-
dral of st. Paul, in London city. The
authorities made the transfer and the ad.
herents of the mulcted church called it
''robbing Peter 10 pay Paul"
IT'S fine saying of I. G. Holland that
labor, calling profession, scholarship and
artificial and arbitrary distinctions of all
sorts are incidents and accidents of life.
which pass away. 1t is only manhood that
remains, and it is only by manhood that
man Is to be measured.
At this time of the year when the cities
of Europe and America are invaded by
fierce frosts tbs pitifuI to learn that the
number of the unemployed in London is
greater than il has been for decade. Coal,
food, clothing, shelter-the very neces-
saries OF life-to buy, and no money be-
cause no work God pity the needy and
may the well-to-do hasten 10 the relief of
4l,.av Al, IL
and willing to work are in danger of starv-
alton, there must be something the mas-
ter with the social order-something we
can't push upon providence, but which
We should remedy.
We have no belief in the doctrines of
materslism. Genius is not a peculiar
arran eement OF the nervous system. Logic
and eloquence are not so much roast beef
in active exercise
Yet there is nevertheless a vital con-
nection between the stomach and the
brain-and yes. and the nerves and
muscles. An outraged stomach takes its
revenge by poisoning the blood and de-
bilitatIng the whole frame. On the other
nand good, nOurisbing food, properly
cooked and eaten seasonably keeps the
digestion in order and so feeds the brain
and preserves the nervous and muscu ar
health.
Health is duty; It's more, il is an in
dispenssble condition of right living. As
the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
so any sin against the body is an act of
sacrilege. The pulpit, the press, the
school should elike preach up health aud
preach down dyspepsia and nervous pros
haK-e ar
ercise, better food, better digestion. Then
we shall live longer, be happier ant do
better work.
Bishop Walker Of North Dakota has con-
structed and is soon to launch at Bis
marck a gospel barge, which is to be de-
voted TO missionary work in towns and
camps along the Missouri river. The boat
is nineiy-three feet long and twenty
feet wide. Ii will command 500 miles OF
territory. The good bishop has named it
the Missouri Missioner.
In that able and vigorous catholic paper,
the N0C World published in Chicago,
there is a notable article entitled "A
Wasted Chagora," in which the writer
refers to the waste of power on the part
of Christian laymen. This power Is wasted
by neglect. by misadjustment, and by
misapprehension. lis not the business
of the clergy alone TO eyangelize the world
They are TO inspire and direct, but the
actual work must be done by the laity
Let the ''chagora waste" be stopped Gear
this enormous power to serviceable uses.
In his inaugural lecture at Oxford, as
regius professor of modern history, Mr..
Froude uttered many trenchsnt sentences
among the rest this concerning the
treatment OF history as a science. "In
science, properly so-called, the individual
is nothing, the species is everything. The
individual is an accidental phenomenon,
existing for few a days or years in space
and time, and then swept away to make
room for others of a similar kind But
with man, so far as he is an object of in
terest, it is the type which is nothing and
the individual which is everything Take
away from Ulysses or Hamlet their indi-
vidual personality and leave only what
belongs to the race, would you say that
! YOU had preserved the immortal part and
thrown away the unimportant? The i'm
mortal part of a man is not that which be
| shares with the rest of his race. but that
which he possesses Of his own"
The Boys brigade in the united king
dom numbers 1000 officers and 1000
boys, making 1t the largest organization
of boys in the world. 1t has had a won
derful career in Great Britain and will