The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-08
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religious Notes.

There are 20, 900 members oil the Methodist
Church in South Africa.
An effort is being made to get up an inter-
ecclesiastical church congress.
The Presbyterian Church in the United
States has had an increased membership OF
$1,000 during the past year.
The oldest church now standing in this
country is claimed to be that near Smith
field, Va, which was built in 1882
The attendance of 345 delegates at the last
Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance is one
good sign of the growing interest in mis-
sions.
Parlor Sunday-schools are the latest means
used for reaching those of the upper classes
OF London society who are not regular
church attendants.
In the eleven years since the first church
was organized in Japan, SO have been formed
by the 10 missions at work there, 81 OF which
are self-sustaininS.
The census of missions to be taken next
year will, it is said, show an increase of 200,-
600 native Christians in India, CeYlon and
Burmah for the last ten years, 10000 in all.
Bishop Cranberry, one of the new bishops
of the Church South, lost one eye from a
wound during the civil war, and grave fears
are expressed for the continuance of his
sight.
The new Lord Mayor of London declines
to take out his state carriages and liveries on
Sunday, because it would give work to his
servants, and he wishes them to have a day
OF rest.
A training college to prepare young Span
iards for evangelistic and pastoral work, an
institution much needed for years, has been
opened at Puerto Santa Maria, not far from
Cadiz, Spain.
The International Presbyterian Council
will meet in Belfast, Ireland, next year This
-. n i.
ism, the Belfast Witness says I'VE must
have Presbyterian mayor in the chair"
In 1873 the Reformed Episcopal movement
had but seventeen clerical adhereuts only a
few laymen and not a single congregation.
1t now has 600 communicates. 100 congre-
cations, 81, 600, 600 in church property, and
10000 adherents.
The progress of Christianity since the be-
ginning is given as follows: Day OF Pente-
cost, 5000; end of first century 500 o0 reign
of Constantine, 10000 600; eighth century,
10000 600; reformation, 100,000,000; in 1888,
100000.
In South Carolina the weekly penny con-
tributions in the Methodist churches are
often paid in eggs. In one of the Western
towns the same currency is the means Of
largely increasing the missionary donations
This has been named the Hen Mission.
All that remains of the first settlement of
church where Pocahontas was baptized. The
font used in that service is said to be in the
chaneel of Christ Church. williamsburg,
Va, where she was married, in 1913, to John
Rolf
The following advertisement appears in
Washington newspaper: THE prayers OF
Gods people are most earnestly requested
for the thorough publication of a young
church whose pastor and officers are invet-
tnharnn mnCh
of its members"
Mr. ]. B. Peaslee, superintendent of the
Cincinnati schools, says: Zone of the great
est powers for evil is the low and degrading
writings our boys and girls are reading.
Even educators, fear, are not fully aroused
TO the terrible influence this reading is ex-
erting upon the lives and characters of the
young"
The English Blue Book gives but 14,573
churches to the Established Church, and d.
3i3 places of worship to the Dissenters. The
Church Times disputes the figures, and says
that in the diocese of London the Church
has grand total of6l0, 900 sittings or nearly
double the accommodations provided by
Dissent.
The German missionaries in Ranchi ar
ranged for a grand demonstration in honor
of Luther in which 30 900 native Christians
took part. 1t is a striking comment on the
far-reaching influence of a single life that
the children of the jungle should thus be
found celebrating the birth of one who lived
and died on the other side of the globe four
centuries ago.
Bishop Doane informed a meeting in the
chapel of All Saints Cathedral, Albany, a
few nights ago, that $57, 900 had been sub
scribed for the proposed new cathedral, and
that the Hon. Erastus Corning had, by recent
gifts cleared off all the mortgages on the
land given by him as a site for the edfce,
making the total amount of his personal do
nation about $50 900.
The vast majority of the inhabitants of
Persia are Mohammedans the total number
of dissenters only numbering a. 600. The
latter consist of Armenians, HISTORIANS, Jews,
Koords ana Guebres or Parsees. The No
baInmedan faith is held by the Persian or
dominant race and the Koords. The Jews
and Guebres are few in number and suffer
under great oppression.
series of interesting meetings are being
held in Covington, KY, by eleven of the
held in the First Baptist Church at A. NJ,
and each congregation holds a meeting in
its own church in the evening Committees
OF ladies are canvassng the city. The meet
ings are largely attended, and there have
been conversions and accessons, The inter-
est is on the increase.
The Bishop OF Rochester England, has
taken occasion to commend publicly the
work now being carried on in that country
by Messrs. Moody and Sankey, and has
thereby drawn upon himself the denuncia-
lions of the Rev. J. G. Gill, a clergyman of
that diocese who declares that the tendency
of the evangelists' teachings is to make men
believe that they may safely sin, rather than
that they may be saved from sin.
In accepting the resignation of the Rev.
DR.. William r. Huntington, who succeeds
DR.. Potter, at Grace Church in New York
city, the wardens and the vestry of All
Saints parish, Worcester, Mass, adopted an
address, in which they sincerely congratu-
late the church and parish to which be is
called on the great blessing which they be-
lieve will come to them from the ministra-
ton of so godly and gifted a man; and they
commend him to their loving care"