The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-15
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religions Notes.


things.
An English clergyman, the Rev R. Hodg-
son, believes the pre-Adamic remains 60 be
fossil angels"
project is on foot to build in Omaha in
the spring magnificent building for the
Young Mems Christian Association.
The talk in the prayer meeting should be
supplemented in the life just as truly as
should the deliverances of the pulpit.
-Watchman.
There is an old Gaelic saw which runs
thus If the best mans faults were written
on his forehead it would make him pull his
hat over his eyes"
mans own conscience is his sole tri-
bunal, and he should care no more for that
phantom "opinion" than he should fear
meeting a ghost if he cross the church-yard
at dark.-Lytton.
Life is made up not OF great sacrifices and
duties, but of little things in which smiles
and kindness. and small obligations, given
habitually, are what win and preserve the
heart and secure comfort.-Sir H. Davy.
The Baptist Weekly says that there are
thousands of broad-minded, good and noble
ecclesiashcs in the Roman Catholic fold
whose better judgment disapproves of the
narrow methods resorted to by the church"
The government of India has opened the
Agra medical school to women. small
class is now in attendance. Under certain
conditions private students may have access
to all the lectures and after course of three
years may be graduated.
If you want knowledge, you must toll for
it; if food you must toll for it. and if pleas
ure. you must toll for it. Toll is the law.
Pleasure comes through toll, and not by self
indulgence and Incidence. When one gets
to love work, his life is happy one.-Rus-
kin.
New York paper SAYS: "The Rev. DIR.
Belts, of St. Louis who will be well remem-
bered in connection with the Irish Land
League movement, is mentioned as a proba-
BILE successor to the late Rev. DR.. Ever in the
rectorship of St. Ignatius' Church, New
York"
At Leicester, England, an antiJewish feel
Eng has been shown by the shoemakers, on
the ground that where Jews congregate they
lower the character and price of work. A
strike was ordered in the case of a firm who
refused TIC discharge two Jews. and the Jews
generally had to seek magisterial protection.
The tenth anniversary of the formation of
the Reformed Episcopal Church was cele-
brated in New York on Dec. 8. 1t is claimed
mat the church now has over s. 600 communi-
cants and more than 80 600 adherents and
l25 ministers, 70 church edifices and So con-
creations. The church has more than
s. 600, 600 invested in real estate.
On Jan. national pilgrimage is to be
made to the tomb of Victor Emmanuel in
the Pantheon, the tenth anniversary of his
DEATH to celebrate the first quarter of cen
+pry. OF the unifcation. None have more
reason or disposition to present a respectful
and grateful presence on that occasion than
the Pedestrians of Italy. 1t is believed that
more than 100, 900 people will be in Rome on
that day.
There is said to be, somewhere in the far
II, ,l1.r h,,-i l. RI,
make congregations satisfied with their min
listers. His modus operand is very simple
He occupies pulpit where the people have
come to the conclusion that their pastor has
outiYed his usefulness, and are beginning to
throw out grave hints that a change of
climate is absolutely necessary for him, and
his preaching is so outrageously poor, SO ex-
asperatingly bad, that when the pastor re-
sumes his duties he seems TO be as eloquent
as Bossuet in comparison, and at the next
annual meeting he is unanimoSly engaged
for another year. The experiment has never
been tried in this city because it is novel
idea and we want to see how IL works in the
country first.
The particular Baptist fund" was founded
as far back as HI The trustees and man
ayers held what are called unusual sessions.
During the last session grants of money were
marie to churches and ministers to the amount
of So, 185. Assistance was given to thirty
OF grants OF money, averaging from $25 to
800 each. Numerous parcels of books were
sent to young ministers Two thousand dol
lars were voted for the support and educa-
ton of "godly young men devoted to the
work of the ministry" This last is given
annually to Regents Park College. 1t is by
means such as these that the work is effectu-
ally carried on. and that the gospel is kept
in contact with the poor By such means,
too, the right kind of men are found for
pulpit work.
Mrs Nielsen, of Norway was for twenty
five ars a successful actress. and was con-
verted under the preaching of one of our
ministers in that land. She retired from her
profession and began to read Moodys sermons
in public. Her great elocutionary powers,
vivifed by her sincere convictions on the
subjects presented. soon attracted crowds to
hear her. The Lutheran ministers opened
their churches and chapels for her use. She
began to add few words of her own, which
gradually grew into whole discourses The
Lutheran pastors, finding that she had fully
identified herself with Methodism, at length
excluded her from their churches and she
resorted to public halls and to our over
crowded chapels. She is very modest, in
tensely in earnest, and conducts herself with
such propriety as to gain the universal APP
proval of the preachers of the conference.
Another lady, Mss Nelly Woll who has been
a teacher in a Lutheran college, has turned
her whole attention to the same work.
The historical church doors upon which
Luther nailed his famous ninety-ive theses
at WittenberE in 1917, are now TO be seen at
the chief entrance to the Church of st. Bar
tholomew at Berlin. Wittenberg was bonn
barded during the Seven Years War and, the
church being almost leveled with the
ground, the doors were badly damaged. They
were, however, patched up and restored to
their places when the church was rebuilt,
but as they suffered good deal from the eff
fects of the weather, they we're in time re-
moved for safety to the Berlin Museum
where they remained until King Frederick
William Y presented them to the Church of
St. Bartholomew upon its completion. For
the original doors, which are popularity
known in Germany as the Gates OF the Re-