The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28
Religions Notes.

Mr.. William L. Scott has presented a Cath
ollc church in Erie, Pa, with a chime of
bells costing $4,000.
Ex-Mayor Isaac s. Kalloch resigned as
pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church in
San Francisco, CAL, last week, and sailed for
Washington Territory on the following day
Rev. William Cuthbertson. of London,
England, has accepted the call of the Lea
vitt-street Congregational Church, Chicago,
and will begin his pastorate Sept. l OH a
$1,000 salary.
The Communication fund" of the Irish
Presbyterian Church now amounts to $780,
600, the interest of which is used for the sup
port of ministers. The sustentation fund
adds to this, amounting this year to 922, Cos.
The Rev. George Muller, of the Bristol
Orphanage, has lately returned to England
from a preaching tour in Russia. Although
now seventy-eight years of age, he proposes
to proceed to India on an evangelistic tour.
Every church that upholds moderate
drinking upholds making drunkards and
sending souls to hell" For the time has
come that judgment must begin at the house
of God"-1 Peter, iy, 17.-Horace Waters In
Church Union.
TIL. love of Christ is like the blue sky into
which you may see clearly, but the real vast
ness of which o cannot measure. 1t is
like the sea into whose bosom you can look
a littly way, but its depths are unfathoma-
ble.-M'Cheyne.
A mahogany desk, which was owned by
the Rev. Francis Maknire, who organized
the first presbytery in this country, on the
the eastern shore of Maryland, in 1886, has
come into possession of the Rev. l.. P.
Bowen, of Marshall, Mo.
In Germany, where there is no restriction
of the sale of liquor on Sunday, statistics
show that 80 per cent. of the murders and
crimes are committed on Sunday, and SO
per cent. between Saturday and Monday
morning. Yet many are clamoring for the
German Sunday to be introduced here.
Father Basco. the famous Italian mission
airy, is now in Paris. He has erected semina-
ries which contain SO, 1000 poor boys. He fur
nlshes 600 priests every year to the church.
Over 20, 600 priests educated by him are now
preaching in various parts of the world. He
is almost blind and very feeble, In manne
be is childlike, simple and gentle.
1t is understood that Bishop Potter will do
nothing in the case of the Rev. r. Heber
Newton, against whom charges of heresy
have been preferred. 1t is said, however,
that those b preferred the charges secured
the approval of Bishop Williams, of Con-
necticut, and also that they have the sympa-
thy OF Bishops Coke and Huntington.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad never runs
excursion trains on Sunday. All way trains,
freight and passenger, are taken off on that
0oJ anu bAC lnlOuSh LIdlIS arc IcuuCcu DIS
much as the officers think possible. The
company affords its employees ali possible
means for social and religious culture, and
encourages e~vangelistic labors along its en-
tire line.
Rev. DR.. Suavetung was speaking of the
plaques of Egypt. THE children of Israel, -
he said, were repeatedly IN the point of
manumission, but at the very last moment
the Lord afflicted Pharaoh with auricular
ossi6cation." 1t is the unanimous opinion
among the ladies of his hock that Mr.. Suave-
tung is a splendid preacher. He uses such
beautiful language you know. Boston
Transcript.
1t appears from a recently-published vol
ume that there are in Great Britain from six
to eight thousand families of gipsies or other
nomads, most of whom are as heathenish as
the peoples to whom churches send mission
aries. Mr.. George Smith, a well-known Eng
fish philanthropist, has for many years de-
voted a portion of his labors to these
wretched and ignorant people.
The celebration of Luther's birthday, to
which the Emperor William recently called
attention by proclamation, is to be on a
great and imposing scale throughout the
Protestant parts of Germany. In Hamburg,
for instance, q committee consisting of prom
inent churchmen and laymen has been
formed, and has resolved to erect a church
in honor OF the great reformer, to be called
Iue Lubuer SuurCu. Inc amount required
for this purpose will be about 1925, 600.
Berlin. Halle, and Leipzig have also re-
solved to erect Luther memorial churches.
There were more than $1,000 baptisms in
connection with the Baptist foreign mission
work during the last missionary year. OF
these 1870 were in Sweden, and 2,074 in the
Telugu mission. The largest net increase was
in Japan. 80 per cent, followed by Sweden
with 10 per cent. The Telugu mission fol-
lows with 10 per cent, Germany and the
Chinese missions with 7 per cent, Assam
with 5, and France and Burmah with 3 per
cent. There are in Burmah 80 missionaries,
ass native helpers, All churches, and "a, 093
members. In the Telugu mission there are
81 missionaries, 95 native preachers, SO
churches, and 22,277 members Six new
stations have been occupied recently.
An irreverent observer of the English
bishops describes them, as they appeared re-
Gently in the House of Lords: There sat
some seventeen elderly persons in episcopal
robes, their pulled lawn sleeves suggesting
in a rather curious way that a feminine ele-
ment, not youthful either, had somehow
found its way into the house. Look at their
faces. The stamp of their profession is on
them. Nobody would say that these are men
of the world, or men of business, or men of
affairs. The pinched lips, the eyes mostly
too near together, the skin drawn firmly ever
cheek and chin, the sloping corners of bitter
mouths, Tue alr d sanctImoHy. Oh always
posing before the orld-all this and much
more the most casual observer may see as
he chances at this phalanx of spiritual lesis-
~lators."
The New York Observer says: Eighty
years ago there were only seven Protestant
missionary societies; now there are seventy
hailing from Europe and America. Eighty
years ago there were about 40 mission
aries, and o there are about $500
missionaries from Europe and Amer
lea in heather lands. Eighty years
ago there were about $4,000 converts
from heathenism; now there are about
i,o2U, 0oO-3t0, 600 in the West Indies, $50, 900
in Africa, 100000 in the East Indies, 10000
in China and Japan, 81 1000 in the Indian