The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-04
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religinus Notes.

render are the marble steps that lead to the
spiritual temple,-Bradford.
-Four things come not back-the spoken
word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neg
leeted opportnnity.-H
The Baptists are about to invest from
$40, 600 to $I0o, 600 in the erection of a denom-
national college in north Dakota.
Were the sun of prosperity always to shine
upon us, we would soon forget our Fathers
house, our heritage above.-Rutherford.
The brother of Robert J. Burdette, of the
Burlington Hawkeye, is to enter the Baptist
ministry, having graduated from Newton.
Bishops Simpson and Wiley are at Dem
yer, Col, Bishop Warren has gone TO the Pa
cihc coast, and Bishop Merrill is en- route for
China and Japan.
The tenth anniversary OF the organization
OF the Reformed Episcopal Church will be
celebrated Dec. 10 by special services in the
various churches of the denomination
throughout the country.
The Palestine exploration fund is report
ed to have recovered from a Bedoun tribe
east OF the Jordan pieces of skin containing
portions OF Deuteronomy and the command
ments, made agout 800 years before Christ
The Rev. W. w. McLane, D. D., lately sus-
pended by the Presbytery of Steubenville,
because OF the teachings of his book, entitled
The Cross in the Light of To-day" has been
received into the Congregational Church in
Steubenville, o.
Recent statistics show that there are in
China Al Catholic bishops, ga European and
452 native priests, "a colleges "a converts,
and Catholic population OF 1902, S1S. The
total number of Protestants is about 100000,
chiefly Europeans.
Whatever our social or business relations
may be, we have other and higher interests.
We he OaininC the whole world n all
that may be desirable in the world, but if we
are neglecting our souls, what shall it profit
us?-Bishop Huntington.
Professor Fishers able paper on the Chris
tan religion, which appeared in the North
American Review, has been translated into
japanese. 1t is we'll adapted to meet press
ing want in Japan, where the opponents of
Christianity are sharply contrasting the
ground with its advocates.
To attempt to serve God without love is
like rowing against the tide. But love oils
the wheels and makes duty sweet. The an
gels are swift-winged in Gods service, be-
cause they love him. Jacob thought seven
years but little for the love he had for Rachel.
Love is never weary.-Watson.
This years missionary contributions in the
Protestant Episcopal Church show a falling
off IS compared with those OF last year. For
domestic missions $40 900 will be needed dur
ing the summer months, and for foreign
missions So, 000. Urgent appeal is made by
the missionary committees for these
amounts.
The Cathedral of Berne is said to be richer
i'll archaeological treasures than any Protest
ant church in Christendom, not excepting
Canterbury Cathedral. Their money value
would not be less than $500 900. They have
undergone recent examination, and cases
have been found which had not been opened
since the Reformation.
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults
and imperfecuons of Others for thou hast
many faults and imperfections of thy own
that require a reciprocation of forbearance.
II thou art not able to make myself that
which thou wisheSt to be, how canst thou ex-
pect to mold another in conformity to thy
will2-Thomas Attempts.
Prayer with and for others must grow out
of our own private prayers. In the closet
with the door shut, we learn how to speak to
our Father. He prays best in public who
prays best alone. A congregation, however
large, is gathering of individual souls. Gas
in water, face answereth to face, so the heart
of man to manipulating.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist
Church in London, of which the Rev. Charles
H. Spurgeon is the pastor, has 5,621 MEM
bers. There are nine mission stations and
twenty-three Sunday-schoels connected with
the church. There are in all SIS Sunday
school teachers and 654s Sunday-school
scholars. The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon became
the pastor in 1854.
New York Advertiser: Rash words and
acts may harm the Christian beyond repair.
What springs from impulse may be set
down to want OF principle. The tear of
penitence may be secret; the act of wrong
doing may be public. Wicked men wish to
believe Christians like unto themselves
Those not positively wicked, but weak, often
wish to find others as weak as themselves,
and are often willing to find them wicked.
"How careful, then, ought TO live,
With what religious feari"
is not morbid conscientiousness, but religious
common sense.
Statistics of the religion o. British India,
based upon the census of 1882, which reck-
oned the entire population at 254 800, sic,
make the following enumeration: Various
sects and castles of Hindoos, 1877, 937, 450; Ma
hometans, so, 121 ,5S5; nature worshipers g.
426,5l1; Buddhists, 3,41S, 834; native Chris
tians, l, 862, 634 Jains a sect whose worship
is mingled Buddhism and Hindooism 1221-
1896; Sikhs, who are simple THESIS, 1853, 426;
miscellaneous and unspecified, 3,057, 130.
The native Protestant Christians number
only about SOC, 900, but this is an increase of
sc per cent. within ten years.
Rev. DR.. Putnam. an able and thoughtful
Unitarian, expressed himself recently thus:
"Unitarianism has degenerated into a medley
of doubts and depials petty criticisms and
secular teachings. and is therefore powerless
to effect any moral or spiritual good. We
have been travelling in a wrong direction, so
far as we have been wandering from Christ.
Without Him our faith in God languishes,
our morality loses its bracing power, our i'm
mortality is no longer a glad assurance but
at best only dim and uncertain hope. and
our Unitarianism is a waning, dying cause"
new organization has been formed in
England, under the auspices of tine Bishop of
Durham to promote social purity. Each
member on joining makes the following en-
gagements: Il promise, with Gods help.
deavor to protect them from wrong and
DEGRADATION, 2. To endeayor to put down all