The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-19
CHURCH NOTES AND NEWS.


There are IS, 900, 900 Catholics in Spain, and
10000 magnificent churches.
Rev. Dr. Arthur Mitchell, of Cleveland,
has been elected president of Union Theolog-
ical Seminary.
Rev. Jacob Erb, ex-bishop of the United
Brethren church, died April %, in Shire
jamestown, Pa.
Mr.. George William Curtis, because of
other engagements has been compelled to de-
cline presiding at the Unitarian festival in
Boston.
A national prophetic and holiness con-
vention is announced to begin, at Lake Wal
den, Concord, Mass June 8, and 70 continue
nine days.
The Rev. Mrs. Stoddard has taken charge
OF the Second Advent Church in Oil City
She is the first woman preacher ever seen in
the oil country.
Bishop Peck is very weak, indeed. 1t
seems as if his public duties are finished He
is in perfect spiritual peace, and he talks of
his coming reward in fullest confidence.
Make rule and pray to God to help you
keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at
| night without being able to say: II have
made one human being little wiser or a
little happier, or little better this day"
D. W. Burton, a reliable clergyman now at
work as missionary in Liberia, writes that
the colored people can do much better in
America than in the young African republic.
Skilled laborers only can find employment
| there.
The Lutheran says: "Keep out the rogues
| and hypocrites from the church" 1t would
strike an average man, looking on from the
| outside that these are the very persons who
should be brought into the church and made
better men.
An anti-opium prayer union has been
| formed in Great Britain, of which the MEM
bers residing in different parts covenant to
| pray at least once week, on Thursdays for
the overthrow OF the appalling and accursed
opium trade in China and elsewhere.
The Presbyterian church has presby terry
| in Utah, with fifteen educated and ordained
ministers of the gospel stationed at different
points, besides one licentiate, and several
| other ministers in the adjoining Territories
These, with their wives and other teachers
are all hard at word.
Rev. Dr. l.. NJ. Vernon, who is in charge of
| our missions in Italy, greatly assisted King
Hunbert in making census of the kingdom
In recognition of this the King has decreed
silver medal to DR.. Vernon, and one each to
Alceste Lama and Rev. Teoplo Gay, OF our
Italian mission conference.
Mr. McGill, .having resigned the chair
OF ecclesiastical, homiletical and pastoral
theology in Princeton Theological Seminary
| has been made professor emeritus, and the
Rev, DR.. William NJ. Paxton, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church in New York City,
has been elected in his stead.
Rev. F. s. Fitch, formerly pastor of the
| Seventh-street Congregational Church, OF
| Cincinnati, has been installed pastor of the
First Congregational Church, of Buffalo, n
| Y The installation occurred last Thursday,
the Ontario council of the Congregational
Church converting for that purpose
| In Monaco, the well-known resort of gam
blers. there has been erected a little English
church, which, according to its chaplain, the
| Rev. William Wight, M. A, is acting as a
check upon those who "wish to be free of all
moral restraints" The Bishop of Gibraltar,
| on the contrary, expresses the fear that by
making Monaco more attractive it will in
crease the prosperity of the gambling bells.
The Examiner says: "The religious inter
| est in Boston and vicinity continues to grow
| in extent and power. 1t is said to be more
| general than at any time since the extraor-
| binary year 1857. when converts were num-
| bered by thousands. There are no evangel-
| lists in the field, nor special agencies at work
| but the churches are relying in the Spirits
power to attend the ordinary means of
| grace"
| Mr.. Spurgeon, speaking the other day at
the Tabernacle, said he once heard of a mon
ument in front of a church on which there
was inscribed the name of a brewer, thus
''So-and-So, Esq, built this church at his
sole expense" Then followed a quototion
scratched out part of the inscription, and
made it read, "So-and-So, Esq, built this
| church at his souls expense He brews XXX"
| Bishop Tanner, of the African Methodists
advises the Irish to learn wisdom from the
negro, who didn't try violence, but patience.
| and has gained everything the Irishman
| wants; showing thereby, he declares, such a
| perception of the foundation principles of
| the government of God as makes the practice
of them by the negro veritable inspiration
| from heaven" Therefore, deduces the negro
| bishop for the Irishman, Join yourself to
| the chariot of the English as the negro has
| joined himself to the chariot of the whites"
A European merchant at Mandalay, India,
| imported a thousand glass images of Guatama
and sold them to the heather. One native
| bought the whole lot and made money by
| peddling thern out. The images had blue
eyes by mistake of the manufacturer This
mistake had to be rectified, which necessitated
few touches of hand painting on each image
| The idolatrous images were made in Birming-
| ham, England, and served the purpose of
Hindoo devotion as well as if made in
| Benares whence they were supposed to have
come.
The Evangelical Alliance of Japan reports
SO organized churches, with a membership
of 1887; pupils at schools, 2,546 theological
students, II, Sunday-schools, 100, with 4, 1871
pupils; ordained preachers, 40; assistant
preachers and catechists, 100; converts bap-
tized during the past year. S95; contributions
OF native Christians, ST., 30. This en-
braces all Protestant churches in Japan for
1882. Since the beginning of the present year
our own mission in Yokohama alone has re-
ceived Al new converts. Professionalism is
making healthy progress in the empire
An amusing story is told about the ordina-
| ton of young English clergyman whose
name is Salter. Nature had gifted him with
hair which was the reddest of the red. Feel
ing that in the solemn ceremonial of his or
dination this red hair might be the cause of
irreyerent mirth, especially as the ritual pre-
scribes that the bishop should touch it, he
determined to dye it black for the occasion,
which he did. The bishop afterward expost-