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

the ST. Louis Christian Advocate,
1t is proposed to found lectureship on
scientific theology by the Baptists, in the
city Of New York-something like the lee
lures of Joseph Cook, in Boston.
Rev. Dwight Spencer has obtained $4,000
for the erection of Baptist house of worship
at Salt Lake City. and he will at once return
to Utah to superintend the erection of the
building,
The Sunday-school Times sayssteps are be-
ing taken to found new Sunday-school as
sembly for the East after the model of Chau-
tauqua. The site most mentioned is Key
East N. ].
Judge Mcconnell. of tennessee saws there
is not one placSS IN .he Fifth judicial district
"i--e intoxicating liquors are retailed, and
"the schools have risen and the whisky-dens
have fallen"
The Rev. Charles Taylor, D. D., OF the Ken
lucky Conference, says the Episcopal Meth
odist is in New York, visiting his father,
who if he lives until September, will reach
his Tooth birthday.
The Northwestern Presbyterian Church. of
Philadelphia, has retired from the Presoyte-
rian denomination, because the Presbytery
disapproved of its employing as its pastor
Greek, Waldo Messaros.
At a recent meeting of the Army OF Saliva
ton in Exeter Hail. London. England, Gen.
Booth stated that the association numbers 49l
corps, 10000 officers and soldiers The re-
ceipts for the year had been about $750000
The ST. Louis Christian Advocate Church
South is offered for sale by Logan D. Dam
eron, Esq. because his business and private
interests call him to other cares and labors.
He offers the church the first choice as pur-
chaser, but if the church does not take it he
will sell to private parties.
Chunder Mozoomdar one of the greatest
preachers of the Brahmo Somaj Church of
God) in India recently addressed an import
ant meeting in London, and, says the Echo,
mo foreigner ever before, with the exception
of Kossuth, so revealed and used the rich re-
sources of the English language"
The Rev. G. W. Woodall gives an encour-
aging account of the prospects in Chinkiang,
where he is stationed. He is making progress
with the language. He finds that the general
feeling toward missionaries is growing more
and more favorable. They are regarded less
as foreign devils" and more as messengers
of peace who bring Fu-Yin, or THE Happy
Sound.' Thus they designate the gospel
"Ther0 is one topic" says Ralph Waldo
Emerson, "peremptorily forbidden to all
well-bred, rational mortals, namely, their
distempers. If you have not slept, or ii you
have slept, or if you have headache or scat
lea, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, 1 beseech
you to hold your peace, and not pollute the
morning, to which all the house-mates bring
serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption
and groans"
The earliest Greek manuscript of the New
Testament goes nearly back to Iranmus, who
succeeded Polycarp, the pupil of st. John,
while no manuscript of Homer is older than
the twelfth century Hebrew manuscripts
relate back SO far that the long lives of
Adam, Methuselah, Seth and Noah enabled
the sons of Noah to have intercourse with
Abraham; so that near as we are by gen
erations to the Pilgrim Fathers SO near to
the beginning of the epoch A. D. is the cues
toned record of the New Testament, and
equally near to the early history of the
epoch B. q. is the accredited Old Testament
record.
Mr. Oliver Johnson, whom no one will ac-
cuse of oyerfaith in evangelical Christianity,
expresses the opinion in the July Atlantic
that the time has come when the representa-
tive religious men of the time, Roman and
Protestant, Orthodox and Liberal, Jew and
Agnostic should set aside matter of less i'm
portance and take up the subject of teaching
morality in the public schools. And he be-
lieves that they would not find it difficult to
agree when they cast aside abstract questions,
and considered morality itself-they would
soon arrive sat one and the same place"
That place he also clearly indicates as FOL
lows "And the morality which they would
all commend as essential to the purity of So
ciety and the safety of the republic and
therefore indispensable to good citizenship,
would be, in substance, that the New Testa-
ment, which has its grandest illustration in
the teaching and example of Jesus-His ex-
ample In death as we'll as in life" That we
are the eve OF such a movement no one
can doubt. We have given up religious wor-
ship and the teaching of religion in the
schools, and the need OF teaching definite
system of morals is therefore imperative"
Although the gospel has been we'll received
~, Id tl,n - al
there is one subject on which they must not
open their mouths That subject is slavery,
and the rule is Just as il used to be in our
Southern States during the domination of
the slave power, when a minister denouncing
slavery as sin or praying for its abolition
was considered an heretical disturber of the
peace, and was hidden to go away. Formerly
Madagascar was the chief market for slaves
on the east coast of Africa. The traffic was
several years ago prohI bited by law but the
law is constantly evaded The well-to-do
people in Madagascar all keep slaves, MANY
of whom are church members as well as their
masters. Wealth is. to great extent repre-
sented by the number OF slaves a man owns,
or claims to own, much as 1t used to be in
our slave States There are frequent auction
sales of slaves, in which families are separated
as in the old way. The slaves are not, as a
general thing, badly treated or made to work
very hard. Their slavery is as light as
slavery can be. Still, it is slavery, and as
such, is great hinderance to the progress OF
the gospel and of the highest civilization.
An atheistical writer in the Revue des
DeuS Mondes recently argues in favor OF
government protection for Christian missions
in the national possessions in heather coun-
tries saying in reference TO England, as an
illustration: I'm consequence Of the spirit
of association that reigns in England their
missions have organizations of the strongest
character, and have no want of resources
The State protects, sustains and encourages
them. No one would think of proposing to
England to abandon the Protestant protect
crate it exercises in fact, if not in law. 1t
does not forget that the Protestant Bibles
carry its language everywhere, and that
missionaries are the best agents OF civiliza-