The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-10
Religious Notes.

next year a memorable occasion.
1t is a reproach to be in the bonds OF sin;
but to be in the bonds OF prison for Christ's
sake is great glory.-Earl of Arundel, 1887.
DR.. Bernhard Weiss intimates that Chris
tan faith would be just what it is if the
Gospels had persisted or had never been writ
| ten.
| The Boston Congregationaist mentions a
church in Connecticut which, according to
| official reports raised last year the total sum
of 81, 010, 169.11
Though there be much of mystery, it is not
for US TO question the propriety of Gods
ways but rather to say, HE doeth all things
well."-Young.
There has been decline of 1899 in the
mem Dership of the Cumberland Presbyter-
ian Church during the past year, The mem
bers now are 113 $50.
Experience shows that success is due less
to ability than to zeal. The winner is he
who gives himself to his work, body and
soul.-Charles Buxton.
Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, a female
preacher OF South Carolina, has remarkable
eloquence, and fills both the church and the
pulpit wherever she goes.
The present hour is always wealthiest when
it is poorer than the future ones, as that is
the pleasantest site which affords the pleas
ATTEST prospect-Thoreau.
DO great u ndpplH0SS 10 L 0SleGIU IL ~ DS
loved that fancy every blessing. both from
gods and men, ready to descend spontane-
ously upon him who is loved.-Xenophon
Mr.. John Wanamaker has been president
of the Philadelphia Young Mems Christian
Association for thirteen years, and contrib
uted to the funds of the institution about
100000.
Bishop Hellmuth has in the press Bib
lical Thesaurus; or a literal translation
and critical ANALYSIS of word Of no
original languages OF the Old Testament,
with a concordance"
The fourteenth report of the Society for
Disseminating the Holy Scriptures in Russia
covers the year 1882 Its circulation during
that period was 50, $50 copies, making its en-
tire circulation $40, 1852 since 1868.
There is good prospect that the two
| Presbyterian organizations, the Waldensian
Church and the Free Church of Italy, will
unite. Negotiations have been going on for
some time, but until recently little hope
of the union has been expressed on either
side.
The new revision of the Old Testament
will come out next spring. Both the British
and American companies will be through in
January. The American company have
finished their third revision of the minor
prophets, and sent their notes over to Eng
land.
at a recent rivival at Marietta, Ca, so the
! Marietta Journal states, Ex-Governor Col
| quit took an active part in the work. 1t
| say: His theme was Christ IN ALL" In
| the afternoon he addressed the children, win
ming with his earnestness and sympathy the
| ways to their hearts.
| Rev. DIR. Alexander Maclaren, the famous
preacher of Manchester, England, is tall and
thin. His hair is gray, his voice high and
| sharp, but pantive and his manner nerv-
Gus. He wears spectacles, but dresses in
most unecclesiastical garb, disdaining even
to put on a white cravat.
The saddest thing that can befall soul
| Is when 1t loses faith in God and woman.
Lost those gems,
Though the worlds throne stood empty in my
1 would go wandering back into my childhood,
searching for them with tears.
! Alexander Smith.
Pere Hyacinthe's deacons say THANK
you" to those who contribute as they pass
the plate around. "A little Of this French
| politeness in passing the plate" says Bap-
fist paper might be copied by some of our
| American deacons. We have seen deacons
i present the plate as though it was a revolv-
err"
Mr.. Samuel Morley, NJ. P, agrees with
| John Wesley, that an idle church is dis
honorable church, and does not believe "in
resting merely upon the doings of the pull
pit, for the world would thus never be con-
verified. l rather look for a large accession
of the lay element, particularly of woman's
service in its unobtrusive yet powerful
form"
There are now seventy Indian, colonial and
missionary bishops in communion with the
see of Canterbury. The SEVENTEEN is the
Right Rev. A. w. Poole, who has just been
| consecrated as missionary bishop in Japan.
| Among the most interested spectators of the
ceremony at Lambeth were a number OF
| young japanese gentlemen who are studying
| in England.
II thank God that I have lived few
months in the family OF Christian woman.
| learned more about religion from that
! Christian mother as she went about her du-
ties and bore up under the trials of life than
| did from all the preachers | ever heard'
| So said a brother to the preacher of the in
| troductory sermon at the Central Association.
Biblical Recorder.
| A Methodist minister of note says II
! have known hundreds of men and women
| who made no pretensions to holiness, who
| had experienced no second blessing who
| had found no new light who sought no
| new life who, in fact were ust as pure,
| true and holy in life and conversation as the
best so-called holiness people l ever saw,
and not hall SO troublesome in the church."
Mr. Spurgeon the famous London Baptist
preacher, is described a brown-skinned,
| low-browed, big checked, rugged framed
man, stout. of medium height, with iron-gray
hair short, bristling and impaired, beard
and mustache closely trimmed, wearing a
prince Albert" coat and black cravat, with
nothing clerical in his appearance, but look
ing for all the world like village black
smith with his "Sunday-go-to- meeting"
clothes on.
A New Hampshire paper speaks of place
! in which there are three churches but no
preacher, and gives as a reason for such
state of things that a $4,000 minister is
wanted for about 5000 and he must be mar
ried, so as not to firt with the girls, and
must take his pay in beans, potatoes chick
ems, etc. In fact, he must be too spiritual to
eat and live, except on the eloquence
! which he delivers to the multitude, Any
| minister answering this descrintion VIII be