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

mother say to her daughter land she was a
very estimabie woman, tool i wish you to
be confirmed at Grace Church, because it is
a more fashionable church than Ascension.
/ should be very much ashamed of you if
you married a poor man. l should be
ashamed of myself and unworthy of your
fathers confidence if | allowed any girl to be
better dressed than you are"
There is living in this county an old lady
who has read through the Bible at least fifty
times. She once read it through i'll fifty
hours, reading two hours each day for twenty
five days. AS an unbelieyer, she began to
read it through curiosity, but had not
finished reading it for the third time before
she became a firm convert to its truths and
doctrines.-Athens GA Banner.
Mr.. Moody thinks that ministers in this
country should exchange pulpits often with
the brethren in England, "say for six months
at a time" at is only a short trip across
the ocean, and it would do much to stir up
the people of both lands" "Why," said
Mr.. Moody OF Sunday, Il could have
preached in Queenstown on Sunday, in the
morning, and il New York on the following
Sunday.'
Professor Robertson Smith, the leader in
higher criticism" is not successful as a
Bible-class teacher in one of the Edinburg
churches. A writer in the Christian World
(London) says: when it was begun, in
November, the number attending it nearly
filled the area of the church. was therefore
surprised on looking into it, on a recentSun
day, to find only about twenty-five persons
assembled"
President Eliot, of Harvard, thinks it would
be a great improvement in the relation be-
tween minister and congregation, IF the
minister were frankly allowed sometimes to
ommen upon a fresh book instead of
preaching a sermon, sometimes to read other
mems sermons instead of his own, and, in
general, to direct his hearers in good read
ing, and bring them to know something OF
the minds and works of the leaders of the
race, living and dead"
In the recently published autobiography of
the late Bishop E.. o. Haven, we find the fol-
lowing: When a few weeks old. the census
man called to take the number of persons in
the household. My mother. after mention
ing my father and herself and the three other
children, and perhaps the nurse, held me up
and said, Here is another, that we haven't
named vet The man looked q few seconds
carelessly, aud exclaimed, All he wont live
a week; / guess we won't count him. and
made no entry in his book. So far as | know,
l am the only person then living in the coun-
try that was refused a place in the census of
1920. Really, all accurate statisticians ought
to notice, in making their calculations, that
the population of the United States for 1920,
instead of being O,63S, 131, as usually stated,
was really 9,63S, 132, or subsequent censuses
should be proportionately diminished"
The Rev. Dr.. Angus, of London, believes
that the Protestant church is able to have the
gospel preached TO every creature within ten
years. He SAYS: "Under the least favorable
conditions We might need $4,000 preachers,
and their support might need from ten to ff-
teen millions a year. 1t seems a great com
pany, $1,000 preachers, and yet it is not more
than l per cent. of our evangelical church
members England sent as many men to the
Crimea to take a single fortress, and to keep
up for a few years a Mohammedan despot-
ism. Ten times the number fell on each
side in the American war to set free three or
four millions of slaves. Cannot 500 re-
deemed men be found to win back the world
for Christi 1t seems q great sum-a hundred
and fifty millions in ten years-yet tits less
than 93 a year from each member OF the
evangelical churches of Europe and America"