The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-12
Religions Notes.

Grace Episcopal Church, New York, is to
have a $50, 600 spire.
The proper motives to religion are the
proper proofs of it-Bishop Butler.
Voltaire's old mansion is now used by the
Geneva Bible Society as a repository.
The truer we become, the more unerringly
we know the ring of truth.-F. w. Robert
son.
Govern your thoughts when alone and
your tongue when in company.-Thomas
attempts.
What is sadder in our reflection, and yet
what more frequent than our unconscious
farewellsi-George Eliot.
TIL expenses of the election and institu-
ton of Bishop Benson to the primacy of Eng
land amounted to $150,000.
-J~G~-Aan in 1875 there were but
~estants, while the Catholics are reduced to
1853.
He that seeketh forgetfulness of God in
this life will reap the reward of being forgot
ten by him in tine world to come.-Bishop
Seymour.
Let us not despair of saving men addicted
to strong drink. Drink is strong. but the
Son of God is stronger than strong drink.
Moody.
The Non-conformists of Wales have
erected 5000 places of worship, and annually
raised toward all objects the large sum of
52z,UuU, UuU.
The Australian Baptists support a mis-
sion in Mymensing, northeast of Bengal,
India. Nine Garos were baptised in the mis-
sion last year.
The Baptist Missionary Union is compelled
to close its fiscal year with a shortage of $780,
300. The Home Missionary Society is short
about $40, 900.
Rev. James Smith, of the Baptist mission.
at Delhi, India, is on the eve of returning to
England after nearly forty years missionary
work in that country.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks writes from the
Himalayas that he has not seen anything so
high as those mountains since he last visited
a certain ultra-ritualistic church in Boston.
Sunday is very largely a working dav, like
the rest of the week, in Bohemia; but an
earnest movement to make the first day of
the week a day of rest has been started there,
Rev. George Williamson Smith, D. D., rec
tor of the Protestant Episcopal Church Of the
3edeemer, Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, has
been elected president of Trinity College.
Connecticut.
The Presbyterian missionaries in Alaska
have extended their fields of labor, and have
been the means also Of increasing the mail
facilities among the Hydah, Hoonyah and
Chilcot tribes of Indians.
All common things. each days events,
Tint with the hour begin and end,
Our pleasures aud our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
-Longfellow.
A little boy in South Carolina, who is
greatly interested in foreign missions, raises
canary birds and sends the proceeds of their
sale to the Southern PRESBYTERIAN Board. In
this way he has given nearly 500 in the last
three years.
The love of Christ is like the blue sky into
which you may see clearly, but the real vast
ness of which yon cannot measure. 1t is like
the sea, into whose bosom you can look n lit
tleA way, but its depths are unfathomable.
--M'Cheyne.
The Presbyterian says that the demand for
the Shorter Catechism is steadily increasing,
and at the same time that the demand for the
Child's Catechism. for very young children,
has so advanced that the yearly sales now
reach 20, 900 or $4,000.
The memorial statue to William Tyndale,
the translator of the New Testament and
martyr to the truth, representing him in his
DOCTORS robes and holding an open New Tes-
lament in his right hand, will soon be placed
Oh the Thames embankment, London.
Thirty-six thousand ministers furnish spir-
itual instruction and consolation for the peo-
Dle of England and Wales. About $4,000 of
'hese ministers belong to the Church of
England. For every 500 of the population
here is a place OF worship Of some kind or
other.
We need to change onr standards. Men
must be bonored in proportion to their vir-
utes, and considered rich by the measure of
their integrity. Life is so much wasted that
q loses the divine idea. which is, not the
number OF a mans days, but the character of
ais life.
The remarkable revival which commenced
last October nt Basic, and spread to surround
ing districts, is more than maintained; it in
ereases in intensity us the numbers increase.
Every thing is quiet aud orderly about it;
the balls are crowded, and an earnest spirit
Df prayer and implicit trust prevails every
ehere among the attendants,
On New York" writes n ~well-known cor
respondent, al was once shocked to hear a