The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24


There is an essential difference.
Be careful that your prayers are for what
you need rather than what you want.
There are 900 900 Protestants in France
and the number is increasing through the
efforts of the evangelists.
A college for the training of young Span
iards as evangelists and for other branches
of gospel work, has been opened near Cadiz.
'There is no country in the world where 1
am so much Pope as in the United States"
is the assertion made by the Pope to Bishop
Keene of Virginia
Pere Hyacinthe says he has been accused
ofhaving seven religions. He processes to be
a Catholic, with certain reservations. He
doesn't believe in Popery.
There are men whose presence infuses
trust and reverence there are Others to
whom we have need to carry our trust and
reverence ready -made.-George Eliot.
The sum of $3.50 225 has been subscribed by
wealthy Bostonians as permanent fund for
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology,
to be called the William Barton Rogers
Fund"
A convention of the United Presbyterians
of New York and vicinity, opposed TO the
introduction of instrumental music into the
worship of God, will be held in New York
city, Dec 6.
Rev. Thomas Craven, of India, is to be
practically encouraged in his efforts to aid
the publication interests in Lucknow. He
has recently received a gift of s., 600 steam
printing press.
1t is for little souls, that truckle under the
weight of affairs, not to know how clearly
to disengage themselves, and not to know
how to lay them aside and take them up
again.-Montaigne.
The Women's Baptist Home Mission So
ciety Of Boston, has opened girls school in
Salt Lake City, and one-half of the forty
pupils are daughters of Mormons, one being
granddaughter OF Brigham Young.
"The doctrine of salvation by faith" says
the Herald and Presbyter, lis the article of
Professionalism. 1t is bond which unites
nunr7 9aliaol Christie MS. uh tha-Ls.s5?v \"
A bitter word may make wound that will
never heal. A kind word may win friend that
will never turn. caution may save soul;
and yet silence is something more singing
and at other times more soothing, than any
word.
Mrs. Anna Stafford, widow of former
cashier of the City National Bank, of Cairo
ILL.,, is to erect and endow a public library
building in that city as a memorial of her
husband. The building is to cost about
SIS, 600.
Calvary Baptist Church, New York, has
800 members, who payA their pastor Sc, 000
and raise $10e 600 year for benevolent and
new church on Fifty-seventh street, which is
to cost 100000.
Julia e. Spar, M. D., has written her
father, at Muhcie, Ind, of her return voyage
from China. We give short ex tract from
the letter just received: We expect to leave
about the middle of Novemb er-after con-
ference Our trip is not fully planned vet
but We expect to visit India, Egypt Pales-
tine, Italy, France and England will not ar
rive in the United States before March
1884"
General interest attaches to the memorial
in process of erection to William Tyndale
on the Thames embankment in London. 1t
is fitting acknowledgements of the debt of
gratitude English-speaking people owe to the
translator of the New Testament and the
Pentateuch in their own language. The world
IS awakening to its true benefaet0rs, and the
result can be but gain to evangelical Chris
tianity
A bell, weighing $50 pounds. has been
shipped to India bearing this inscriptions
Presented to the Native Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Cawnpore, India, by Caroline
Sanford Reid, A. D. 1S83-Come unto me all
we that labor and are heavy laden and | will
give you rest" This bell is quite large and
is beautiful both in appearance and tone
The church to which it is generously donated
is the largest native church in our mission.
Here is a thought worth consideration.
dency from Christ's time to the present has
been to construct inhexible law out OF
Christ's free gospel. The spirit of the gospel
cries, Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made you free;' but the spirit of
the church has too often been, Submit gra-
ciously to the bondage wherewith the Gus
toms, usages and traditions of the church
have bound you "
Not long ago after the usual outdoor
preaching III Wellington Square, Calcutta
the crowd was invited TO church near by,
to be present at the baptism of a Moham-
medan, twenty-six years of age. Not a
shadow of displeaSure was manifested and
after the baptism five or six young Moham-
medan lads asked for an interview with the
convert, and talked in the kindest manner
to him. One of them said, with evident feel
ing, May God bless your'
The General Conference of the Evangelical
Association reelected for the ensuing quad
rennium Bishops J. j. Esher, Rudolph Dubs
and Thomas Bowman, and the following
General Conference officers for four years:
Senior book agent NJ. Lauer; junior book
agent, w. Yost editor of the Christliche
Botschafter, w. Horne; editor of the Evan
gelical Messenger, H. B. Hartzler; editor of
the German Sunday-school literature, p w.
Raidabaugb; corresponding secretary of the
missionary society, S. Heninger; treasurer
OF the missionary society, S. L. Weist book
agent Of the publishing house in Germany;
editor of the Evangelische Botschafter in
Germany G. Fuessle; superintendent of the
orphans house f. Kohr.
Perhaps no church works so vigorously in
connection with the national sentiment as
that of Russia. 1t isa branch of the Greek
Church. but it is bound hand and foot to the
slate. The Russian Church is doing more,
erhaps, for the Panslavic sentiment than all
ether causes now at work. In the Danuban
ind Balkan regions it has always been the
willing nersisient and eEfecti We allv of the