The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-21
READING FOR THE SABBATH

been printed in twenty languages.
The habit of righteousness results from
uniformity and continuity IN the use ofsthe
means of grace.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, but
we can yield to them in such way as to be
greater than if we could.-Hannah More.
Last year there were ordained in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church 100 ministers; died,
So, retired, 10; deposed, 10; leaving net in
Perease of %.
For each one of the $4,000 churches in
America there are four grogshops, and for
each one OF the 10000 ministers there are six
bar-tenders.
Mr.. w. J. Onaham. of Chicago, has
prayer book, compiled by the late Bishop
McMullen, which contains the Lords prayer
in 135 languages.
1t is choice saying OF Spurgeon's that
1.-THE serene, silent beauty of holy life is
the most powerful influence in the world,
next to the might of the Spirit of God"
During the hot term The celebrated line of
the poem on the death of Sir John Moore
will become the motto of most clergymen;
Few and short were the prayers we said"
A successor has at last been found to DR..
Bellows. The Rev. Theodore G.. Williams is
the man. He has been settled near Boston,
is young man of thirty, and graduate of
Harvard.
John Bright's speech at the Metropolitan
Tabernacle has been translated into Spanish
with the view, tits said of aiding the move
ment toward the separation of church and
state in Spain.
December 10 of this year the Reformed
Episcopal CHURCH will celebrate the tenth
anniversary of it's existence. 1t is not rapid
ly growing, but Its churches are active and
vigorous, what there are of them.
German Bible, printed at Ingalstadt,
Bavaria, in 1902 illustrated with 100 wood
engravings. and In good state of preserva-
ton to-day, is on exhibition at the county
treasurer's Office at Nevada City, Cal.
There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in
the South Sea 1slSNds, who is said to be
whole Bible society in himself, expanding
$40 month out OF salary of 1926 for Bibles
to distribute among his countrymen here.
Babu P G. Mogeomdar, the foremost
preacher and writer of the Brahne Somaj, of
India, is now lectQring in England to i'm
mense audiences. He will spend the coming
months of September and October in this
country, leoturing and preaching.
Rev. e. c. Gavitt, of the Michigan Method
list church, Is the only survivor of five timer
ant preachers who began work in the Terri
tory hfty-hve years ago. He began studying
for the ministry when only eleven years old.
and preached his first sermon early in his
teens.
Miss Jennie Smith, formerly of Dayton,
o. is devoting her entire time to evaHgelistic
labors for the benefit of the em ployes of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The officers of
the company afford her every facility and
scores of the men have professed conversion.
She makes her headquarters at Mountain
Lake Park.
The necessary funds for the buildings of
the Amanzimtate Seminary in South Africa
have been secured. Sir H. E. Bulwer, in be-
holf nc he Euolieb Furnished
one-half the amount, and other foreign resi-
dents in Natal responded generously to the
call for aid. The missionaries are greatly
cheered by the present hopeful outlook in
the Zulu mission.
good story is told of the late Rev. DR..
Muhlenberg. 1t seems to have been rule
of St. Luke's Hospital that no religious serv-
ices not Episcopalian should be conducted
there. A terrified nurse once ran to the
doctor saying; Doctor, doctor, Methodist
preacher is praying with one of the pa
tents" stop him." said he, before his
prayer reaches heaven"
New York Herald The crowds which
are drawn to the [Sunday] excursions are as
a rule, largely composed of the lowest ele-
ments of our city population, of those who
have little respect for the law, and who are,
on such occasions. ripe for mischief 1t is
not surprising that people should object to
the landing of such disorderly mobs near
their homes, as these gatherings are SO apt to
end in brawls and disturbance Liquor is at
the bottom of most of these outbreaks.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Philadelphia has for long time been labor
ing under crushing $500, 900 debt arising
from the new and fine building on Chestnut
street. Many times it was feared that the
building must be sacrificed; but through the
efforts of Mr.. Walamaker and a few other
men, assisted by Mr.. Moody, arrangements
bay beo1 nd for fha fnDnino IF G000
at a very low rate of interest, while the other
$500, 600 has been raised by subscription.
Two well-qualified men are to be sent from
london on visit of inquiry to Egypt to
study and report the present stage of the ma
tive Christian churches, ana to see if the
Church of England can do anything to assist
the Coptc church. The Association for the
Furtherance of Christianity in Egypt has
the matter in hand, and has appropriated
81 500 for expenses. The appointment of the
awo men who are to make the inspection is
to be approved by the Arch bishop of Canter-
bury, who is president of the association.
The Preshyterans have opened new mis-
sion, not without opposition, In the large
commercial city of Wei Hen, China, about
200 miles from Chefoo One OF their tempo.
rary structures was fired. and posters were
scattered throughout the city, naming date
when their houses would be burned and
their families killed. Though confident that
the people would not dare to attempt vlo-
lence one of the missionaries remarks, ut
is not at all pleasant to have the day set for
your massacre, even if you feel morally Ger
tain it will not take place"
Scripture quotations from memory are not
only not always accurate, but are sometimes
painfully inaccurate. In speaking rapidly
one may be excused, but what shall be said
of writer who has leisure to turn to the
word itself? How often we hear and see the
at,,atlais aN tbnc cita1. EtDiiinanf in,
business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord
and yet the first phrase is not found in
this verse, but is transplanted to it from the
Proverbs, with the omission OF one word,
"his" The revised version improves the
translation, thus I'm diligence, not sloth-
full"
New York Advertiser: General Grant, as