The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
READING FOR THE SABBATH


George Herbert.
Canon Farrar has been promoted from the
canonry to be archdeacon of Westminster.
The highest form of Christian life is self
denial, for the good OF others.-Rev. DR.,
Park
So long as we live in this world we can not
be without trials and tribulations.- Thomas
a Kempis.
A Sabbath days journey is the shortest
distance between any place and a good fish
ing place.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Rev. Charles William Calhoun, NJ. D., one
of the missionaries of the Presby terian
church in Syria, died on Saturday, June 49,
at Schweifat, Mount Lebanon.
The Christian Leader, the organ OF the
Universalist denomination, has been en-
larsed from As TO 56 columns and pa inches
added to the length of the columns,
Out of the warp and wool OF common daily
life can be woven a noble and useful life, as
any life must be which is a psalm of cheerful
labor and obedience, set always to one grand
note.-Miss Muloch.
We once offended brother by changing a
sentence; and yet the only thing we cut out
was the announcement that some old mother
IN Israel had died of cholera infantum.-Ger
man Reformed Messenger.
The convent of Vile Marie, at Moncklands
the interior of which is rapidly approaching
completion, will, it is said, cost about 81, 000,
600, and will be one of the finest buildings OF
the kind on the continent.
writer in the English Noncomformist
says that of the total of 5000 students at
Cambridge there are 300 Noncomformsts,
and of the ., 400 at Oxford there are 100, or 10
and per cent. respectively.
The Chautauqua School of Theology already
numbers 200 students, and its prospects are
so bright for the future that the Rev. Mr..
Wright, its efficient secretary, has resigned
his passionate and is going to take up his
quarters in Boston.
Europe has now population of 3l5 929, 900
inhabitants; Asia, 1874, 707, 900; Africa, POS
$4,000; America, 95, 405, 600; Australia and
Polynesia. 431, 900, and the Polar regions,
$1,000; giving total of l, 455 92S, 000 being
an increase of 1677S,0 600, according to the
latest known cenSuSes.
l do wish that all tired people did but know
the infinite rest there is in fencing off the six
days from the seventh-in anchoring the
business ships of our daily life as the Satur-
day draws to its close. leaving them to ride
peacefully upon the flow or the ebb until
Monday morning comes again.-Anna War
ner.
An English Wesleyan paper says: 1.-THE
holiday season approaches. Every man re-
quires rest and change. l am glad to find
that what is called the preachers fortnight
is recognized as Methodist institution.
Those churches which insist on their pastors
having a month or six weeks for holiday
act wisely"
The New York Observer says all the action
taken by the Presbyterian churches in Scot
land, England, Ireland and America, this
year, has been in the line of allowing the in
dividual churches to do as they please in the
matter of instrumental music; and, with
rare exceptions, the minority manifests dis
position to accept the situation without fur
Their opposition.
The conference of japanese Christians held
May S-12 in Toxic was very remarkable &C.
casion. The presence and power of the Holy
Ghost witnessed there has produced pro-
found impression throughout Japan. DR..
Maclay says the present outpouring of the
Holy Spirit in Japan reminds one of similar
occasions in the colonial and early history of
the United States.
The 400th anniversary of Luthers birth is
to be made an occasion of national observ-
ance in Germany. A royal decree has been
issued regulating the method of the celebra-
ton by the schools and churches Nov. Oil,
and especially urging that the prayers from
the pulpits be made less an. expression of
praise for the man than of "thanks to the
Lord of Lords for His divine mercy vouch-
safed to the German nation through the
reformation"
81 think the millennium must be ap-
preaching" remarked a Harlem man to a
deacon. "What makes you think so?" asked
the good old man. Because when the con-
triDution box reached your pew yesterday
you dropped in So gold piece instead of
your usual donation of nickel" Great
Scottl' exclaimed the deacon, turning pale,
why, l thought put in only new two
cent piece that found on the street the
Nkl, Il Il l..
pious old fraud heaped upon his own head
would have made hardened sinner shudder.
In behalf of the Salvation Army the
Christian at Work says: at ought not to be
forgotten that the army is composed of a
very peculiar class, drawn from the lowest
strata of society, and that it is on this same
class they are striving to operate The meth
DDS they use and the language they employ
may not commend themselves to more re-
fined and intellectual Christian minds, but
they are just such seem to be appreciated,
and the result has been an important and
unique work done by the army in the name
of the Lord. That the blessing of the Master
has been with them is, we think, indisputa-
BILE; and where He blesses, we may well
pause before We anathematlze."
give under my own handwriting a testi-
monial of Christ and His cross, that they are
a sweet couple, and that Christ hath never
yet been set in His due chair of honor among
us all. o, know not where to set Himl o
for high seat to that royal, princely onel
o that my poor soul had once a running
over flood of that love, to put sap into my
dry root, and that that flood would spring
out to the tongue and the PEN to utter great
things to the high and due commentator of
such fair one! holy, holy, holy onel
Alas there are too many dumb tongues in
the world, and dry hearts, seeing there is
employment in Christ for them all, and ten
thousand worlds of angels and men more to
set on high and exalt the greatest Prince of
the kings of the earth.-S Rutherford.
The New Version.
Dr. Philip Schaff in an article in the New
York Independent, sees promises that the
Canterbury version of the New Testament
will be generally received as the accepted
version within short time' Much depends