The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-15
Religious Notes.

MISS margaret HOW'LL, QauSnUe OF VIII
liam Hewitt, has joined the Roman Catholic
Church.
The impaired health of the Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon prevents him from being vigorous in
his delivery.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its
early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom
is heaven.-Hervey.
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not
long, and if the gate be straight it opens into
endless life.-Bishop Beverage.
There are ministers who will never be able
to hold a large congregation until they be-
come chaplains to the p~enitentiary.
There is an old Hebrew proverb which runs:
Make haste when you are purchasing a field,
but when you are to marry a wife, be slow.
Christian Intelligencer: The immigration
which is bringing thousands to our shores is
of God. No such mighty movement occurs
bat the hand of God is in it.
The late Dean Boyd, of Exeter Cathedral,
left a personal estate of nearly 800, 900, and
bequeathed more than $3.50, 900 to religious,
educational and charitable institutions.
Bishop McTyeire once said to a brother
who wept over the terrible state of things in
his charge: what we need, brother, is not
weeping Jeremiahs, but building Nehe-
miahs."
A great many Christians are like the col
ored gentleman who said that he had been
walking "in the broad and narrer path for
twenty years and never Gun ita hard road
to travel.
Mr.. Joseph Cook was offered $500 by Red
paths Lyceum Bureau to speak a single Sab
bath at Highland lake, and refused it on the
ground thatit would lead to and be counte-
nancing Sabbath dissertation.
How beautiful is that simple prayer
which it is said the Breton sailors are wont
to utter when launching out upon the heav-
ing ocean; Keep me-, my God; my boat is so
small, and thy ocean is so wideg'
The Rev. DR.. G. N. Weber, of the First
Presbyterian Church, Troy, goes next week
to enter upon the duties of the professorship
in Smith College, Northampton, Mass, made
vacant by the death of Professor Stuart
Phelps.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the London preacher, being
asked whether a man could be a Christian
and belong to a brass band. replied, Yes, 1
think he might; but it would be a very diff
cult matter for his next-door neighbor to be
a Christian"
Christian faith is a grand cathedral with
divinely pictured windows. Standing with
out, you see no glory, nor can possibly mag
inc any; standing within, every ray of light
reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendor.
Bishop Porteus.
Rev. E. 7. Curnick will succeed DR.. G. D.
Watson at Grace Church, Newport, KY. DIR.
Watson will devote himself to evangelistic
labors. He will spend most of the next six
months in the South. His postoffice address.
after Oct. 1, will be Jacksonville, Fla.
The conservation sermon of the new Bishop
of Argyll and the Isles was preached by
Canon Mccall in ~Gaelic-probably the first
time a sermon has been delivered in that
tongue on such an occasion since the discs
tablishment of the Episcopal Church in Scot
and.
New Zealand Wesleyan: 1--WE thank thee,
o Lord, that we have a love for @sthetics!'
Thus did a good minister %inaugurate the
public devotions of his people. Many of
them we're factory operatives, and perhaps
thought that aesthetics were a new kind of
vegetable.
Ex-Presldent Farrar, who was detained
from the recent English Wesleyan conference
by age and feebleness, stated in his letter to
that body that sixty years had elapsed since
he had preached his trial sermon. and that
he had known every president OF the confer
ence since 1918.
Vespasian, the Roman Emperor, through
out his life, used to call himself to account
every night for his actions of the past day,
and as often as he found he had passed any
one day without doing some good he entered
in his diary this memorandum; Diem
p~erdidi' II have lost a day."
While the Rev. Phillips Brooks was in
Geneva, Switzerland, the congregation of the
English and American Episcopal churches
were anxious to have him preach to them,
and he was quite willing so to do, but could
not, because there wasn't a surplice or gown
in the city large enough to tit him.
The late DR.. Moffat, the venerable mission
ary, became so accustomed to ~''roughing it,
in Africa that when he returned to England
he could not sleep comfortably on a soft pill
low. So for his use at home he had one made
IF Wnn1 anA Uhap he was visiting fri0n6chn
asked them to put a block of wood or a
wooden f~ootstool at the head OF his bed.
Rev. DIR. John L. Smith, of the Northwest
Indiana Conference, has published in pamph-
let form "a plea in behalf of WORKOUT
preachers. widows and orphans, with a
prayer to the general conference of 1884"
it contains also the papers of Rev. c. A.
Brooke, d. D., and other articles, all bearing
on the same subject. The discussion and ex-
hortation of these papers is vigorous and ur-
gent.
A Southern correspondent writes to the
New York Observer: "Presbyterianism is re-
latively stronger in South Carolina than in
any State of the Union south of Pennsylva-
mia. And yet there are only 12,500 MEM
hers to a population of nearly 400, 600 whites;
4,500 members toa population of 900, 900 col
ored, All kinds and colors of Presbyterians
in this State number only 10000, or one fiji
tieth of the population"
Saws Bishop Ireland, of The Roman Catho-
lie diocese of Minnesota: 1.-The need of the
hour is a grand tidal wave OF total absti-
nance sweeping over the land. The strong
est protest possible must be made against in
tenn perance Total abstinence is the pro-
test. Will it be made with sufficient force
to save the people? This is the vital ques-
ton for the future of America, and, 1 must
add, for the future of religion"
The suspicion freely expressed at the time
of his appointment that the new Archbishop
of Canterbury was at heart in sympathy
with the ritualistic party appears to have
been well founded The Christian World
comes out nlainlY and saws: ..Dr. Benson