The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07

yard.
Say nothing of yourself either good, bad,
or Indifferent; nothing good, for that is van
ity; nothing bad. for that is affectation; moth
ing indifferent, for that Is silly.
Happy the heart to whom God has given
enough strength and courage to suffer pa
| tienty and find ones own happiness III
the happiness OF others.-Colton.
The Presbyterans began missionary worl,
| in Brazil in 1862, and now have thirty-two
churches in the Empire with 1729 mem bers
most of them converts from Romanism.
President Chaplin, of Beloit College, and
| Professor Mead, now in Germany, have been
| appointed to make the tour of the Western
\ Turkey missions by the American board.
| Assurances have been given to the Ameri-
can missionaries by the King of Japan that
| he will protect them in their missionary la
bors and will tolerate the Christian religion.
The Rev. Thomas K Beecher, brother of
the Brooklyn celebrity, is preaching in the
open air in California and as the season is
! delightful he gains flesh as well as souls by
his open-air exercise.
| The Boston Post very unreservedly ex-
presses its opinion upon Sunday railroad
trains by saying: Sunday trains are a ne
cessity. They are all evidence of Christian
civilization. Not to run them is wrong"
There are in China between 800 and 400
Christian schools, containing over 6,000 pu-
| pills; 600 Protestant mission stations, more
than 800 organized churches, some of them
self-supporting, and about 10000 commune
cants.
The following excellent compendium of
what house of worship should be is from
an English paper Free from all draughts
free from all delusions, free from all false
doctrine. free to all men and free from all
debt"
The venerable senior and presiding Bishop
lAf E,~;.. H.
Smith, may be said to have been a citizen
under every President of the United States
He was five years old when General Washing
ton died
Rev. William Skoogland has commenced
his labors ms Sunday school missionary OF
the Baptist Publication Society, among his
Swedish countrymen. OF whom there is it is
said, in the States of Illinois, Iowa. Nebraska
and Kansas, about 10000.
The ancient church of Birdhrook, Eng
| land, contains a monumental slab bearing
the extraordinary record: Martha Blewitt
| of Swan Inn. at Baythorne End, in this par
ish, buried May 7, 1861. She was the wife of
nine husbands consecutiYely, but the ninth
outlived her."
zion's Herald offers the following advice
| which We hope does not need wide appica-
| ton. but is very good advice when it is
needed at all: "Dont permit your pastor to
be one of the largest contributors to his own
salary. What he chooses to give toward the
charities of the church is all right, but let
him not humiliate himself by helping to pay
his own salary"
What is promised to the righteous"
asked a mild and amiable Sunday-school
teacher of a small child at the far end of her
| class. Eternal bliss" quickly responded
the child. Quite right, my dear child
said the mild and amiable "And now tell
me what is promised to the wici,ed?n "Eter-,
nal blister. NAM" was the prompt reply.
| The teacher pronounced it theologically cor
rect but peculiarly expressed.
What beautiful thing is the unquestion-
ing faith of childhood A Western minister
tells story of child who asked her teacher:
| Miss Mary, the Bible says he thst believeth
hath everlasting life, doesn't it?' YES"
You believe, don't your" yes" "Then
you will have everlasting lifeT' II hope So"
"Oh, thought it was SIRE enough thing"
The teacher, it is said went home that day
with something to think about
The Turkish authorities still refuse to per-
nit the evangelical church at Vlauga (Con
stantinople) to erect place of worship.
This church has had in hand during four
| years funds gwen by the board for the con-
struction OF Westinghouse. But jealousy
on the part of the Moslem fanatics has so far
prevented their carving out their plans.
Meanwhile the old chapel, where they have
worshipped these thirty years. threatens to
| fall upon the heads of the Congregations that
| tnrong it,
| If you stand quarter of mile off from
| your father, you will be sore puzzled 10 know
what he saws. or what he means: but if you
go within five feet of him, everything will be
| plain. 3d. my Christian brother, il YOU
stano off and away from God, your heavenly
Father, in the midst of earthly absorptions
you will undoubtedly be much ct a loss to
know that is his will; but if You live near to
him, walking with God Gas the scripture ex-
preston so significantly gives it, you will
have no difficulty OF this sort.-Howard
Crosby.
Canon Wilberforce has been passionatelv
defending himself at Plymouth against the
two clergymen who presumed to call him
| heretical for SAYING that anything created by
God was a curse. Give him, he exclaimed.
one drop of fermented wine made by God
and he would drink it on the spot The
canon's eloquence has caused 5000 persons
TO join the blue-ribbon ranks within a week.
The Baptists contemplate at the next Nav
meetings to bring in a motion calling on all
members who hold excise license TO throw
them up and abandon the liquor traffic with
out delay.
According to the Rev. R. H. Hadden, of
Bishopsgate, there are sixty-one parish
churches in the city of London, whose rec
tors receive nearly $500, 900 per year. while
the worshipers at the services after deduct
ing the officials and those who only go for
what they can get, number but 1856. and
ont of that number there are 706 choristers,
all OF whom are paid. Many of the rectories
attached to tine churches are rented for COM
mercial purposes by the clergymen, who live
| at their ease in rural districts while their
parishes are allowed to take care of them
selves except for two or three hours on Sun
day.
To most waiting is harder than working.
Patience is difficult virtue, and i'll this
busy, over-strained age it is becoming some
what scarce. Outlines it is the best service
that can be rendered. For they also serve
who only stand and wait" Away from the
glare of the world in the privacy of home,
waiting, not in idleness nor in disappointed
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