The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13

the alert during the entire SERVICE" Accord
ingly, the Doctor went frankly to his old
| friend and questioned him as to the why and
wherefore of this double dealing, so to speak.
We'll, Doctor, you see, when you are
preaching l know every thing you say is all
| right, but as to these other men, l have to
keep my eye on them"
There are some great troubles that only
time can heal and perhaps some that can
never be healed at all; but all can be helped
| by the great panacea-work. When grief
sits down, folds its hands and mournfully
feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim
shadows that little exertion might sweep
away into funeral pail, the strong spirit is
| shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our
master.
Nearly all the important journals OF Vienna
report the transition of great numbers to
Old Catholicism. In Isargau the movement
is now gaining large increase; at Tawnwald
and In Hotiitz very many persons have an
nounced their secession from the Roman
church and their adherence to the Old
Catholic church, and new congregations are
forming. Also in Vienna over one hundred
members have very lately declared their
accession to the Old Catholic congregation
there.
At one of the colored churches in Char
lotte, N. c., on a recent Sunday evening, a
woman shouted so energetically that she dis
open to its fullest capacity. She left the
church and went through the streets with
her mouth standing wide open, followed by
the greater part of the congregation, in search
of doctor, and one being found, the I'M
hinged member was forced back into its place
She was judiciously advised to keep her
mouth shut hereafter.
A friend of the Church of England writes
to the London Times in favor of disestah-
lishment, claiming that it would be gain
to large number OF the clergy. There is
he says, among the clergy of the Church of
England an amount of personal poverty
simply appalling. Among this class there
are many wa, are hard-working efficient
scholarly and intellectual. To such, he
thinks, disestabllslament would be a bless
ing, for purchase would cease and the peo-
pie would have a voice in the election of
their own pastor
According to correspondent of the Inde-
pendent: ''Of nearly 5000 ministers who
hold a pastoral relation TO Congregational
churches, only eight were indicted into the
Office which they still hold previous to the
year 1S40 Between 1910 and 1850 were set
tied in pastorates which are still retained
only seventeen ministers; between 1850 and
1860, only forty-one between 1860 and 1870
the number increased to one hundred and
fifty fve between 1870 and 1880 it comes to
amount to ten hundred and thirty-six, and
from 1880 to the time of compiling the sta
tistics, period not exceeding three years it
aggregated 1,723.
OF late years, and particularly since Rome
became the capital of the Italian kingdom
and came under the control of the secular
law, all kinds of churches have sprung up in
the Holy City. Episcopalians, Presbyteri-
ans, Baptists, and, quite recently, Unitarians
have hired or built places of worship, and
the cry is, Still they come" The latest
ecclesiastical invasion OF Rome is by the Sal
walton Army. The skeptical and Catholic
journals of the city have begun to find ma
terial for sarcasm in these repeated invasions
and in the changing aspect of things. They
say that soon the Eternal City will become a
Yeritable Tower of Babel of religious par
ties
A London pastor has been writing some
what sharply in the Christian World on
what he calls religious eccentricities"
and giving some hard knocks to ex-prize
fighters and others who hastily, and without
any real fitness for the work, assume the role
oil preacher. An angry Salvationist writes
in reply, promising him Hell in this world
and hell and damnation in the next, if he
ever again abuses Christ's army with tongue,
pen or paper" Correspondence has since
been lively on the subject, and while much
sympathy has been expressed for the editor,
and also for the London pastor, the writer of
the article, it is generally admitted that
there are such things as religious eccen-
tncities."