The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-26
CHURCH NOTES AND NEWS.


religious services of any kind.
Disraeli when tainted as to his being a
Jew, replied: "One-haf OF the world wor-
ships Jewess, the other half worships her
SON..
God compels us to learn many bitter les
sons, that by knowing and suffering, we may
also know the eternal consolations-Bur-
leigh.
1t is not bad beginning for the new Arch
bishop of Canterbury that mis- first public APP
pearance was as president of the Church OF
England Temperance society
Lord Salisbury, who is eighty-two years
ofage, says the improvement in the religious
condition of the English working classes
during his memory is wonderful
The missionaries in the Sandwich Islands,
having christianized nearly all the old inhab-
ltants, are now turning their attention to
the Chinese, who have settled there in large
numbers.
Twelve silver NAPLES were planted at Ocean
Grove in honor of twelve Methodist bishops
on the recent ree-piantng day. A tin tag
attached to each indicates the bishop to whom
it is dedicated
widely-known d. D., complaining of his
want OF verbal memory, said that there was
only one hymn that he always felt sure that
he could quote correctly. That was, Il have
a charge to keep"
The woman's missionary societies now in
successful operation number forty-eight; of
these thirty-seven arein the United States,
four IN Canada, four in England, two in Ger
many and one in Sweden.
An imposing, spacious and costly struc-
ture has been commenced in Pittsburg for
the use of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation which, it is estimated, will cost $780,
OOO, all OF which we believe has been pro-
Vided for by generous friends.
An important evangelistic movement is
making rapid progress in the southern prov
lnces OF Russia, and even in st. Petersburg it's
influence is felt 1t has for it's foundation
the simple preaching of the Gospel directly
to the people by the evangelists.
The Christian Union answers conundrum
as follows: IA Boston minister is reported
to be searching for some one to tell him in
ten words what is the new movement in
theology. That is very easily done. Where
That is just ten words''
The latest statistics of the Methodist Epis-
oOpal Church show 18, 152 churches-ar in
crease of 256 over last year, 1,74s, 021 mem
1uembers-an increase of 1897. OF preach
ers there are II, 976 local and IL, ops travelling
ministers-an increase of 295 of the former
and decrease of 1874 of the latter.
wonderful revival has come to the Adana
station of the Central Turkey mission of the
full experience read like the records of Apos-
tolic times Congregations of from eight
hundred to twelve hundred people come to
hear the word of God preached, and CONVEX
sions are continually occurring.
The Baltimore Methodist, in a sarcastic
editorial on the circus which recently ex-
hibited in that city, says: "Of course no
Methodists were there. No Methodist preacher
peeped in with one eye and around with the
other to see if any body knew him! No Metho-
DIST carried his children at l o'clock to see
the animals and stayed till to see the per-
formances of the ring! Oh, mol All, of
course, saved their money to make liberal
contributions to the missionary cause and to
build new churches
Instead of dying out" says the Central
Presbyterian, 1.-The Jewish body shows in
creasing vitality. They cannot be stamped
out nor swallowed up. They pass from coun-
Try to country to become practically masters
wherever they go. They get the land in Ger
many and Hungary and grow rich in Russia;
they are the great bankers in London and
Paris and the centers of European COM
merce. In ten (recent) years the Roth
childs furnished $500, 900 600 in loans to
England, Austria, Prussia, France, Russia
and Brazil. They increase faster than Chris
tians, and of every 10O,O 900 persons only 80
Jews die to 143 Christians"
Austria has not been looked upon as a
very promising field for Protestant missions:
but the Rev. DR.. Pomeroy writes from Prague
very encouraging account of the church
there, which has had additions of new mem
bers at every communion season since its
organization. The converts evince great
fondness for Bible study, speak with readi-
ness and huency at the social meetings
make their religion the most important
part and the joyous part of their daily lives,'
take good care of the sick, and last wear gave
over 500 forms for Africa and Chinal Taking
into account the poverty of the people and
the difference in wages, this is estimated to
equal contribution of from $12 to $15 per
member from one of our home churches. So
good report from Austria encourages the
hope that Evangelical Professionalism may
spread rapidly through the empire
o the joy OF the resurrection All our sor-
row is about the body We commit it to the
cold and silent tomb, but we know the body
shall rise again. The doctrine of the resur-
rection OF the dead is peculiar to Christian
ity. Philosophy had never spied it out, and
never would nave invented it. 1t is thing
strange and romantic. The Immortality of
the soul is apparent to every one VINO chooses
to think, but the resurrection of the body is
a matter altogether of revelation. We know
to what the body comes, to what base uses it
doth come at last but it shall rise again. 1t
does not matter where it goes now The
sooner it melts altogether into mother earth
the better. Let 1t die away. But there is a
germ within, and a watcher over the dead
which guarantees the resurrection OF that
body with as much certainty as the resurrec-
ton of Christ himself 'Thy brother shall
rise again." said Christ. Thy wife shall
rise again brother Thy sister shall
rise again. my friend. We shall
meet again-all who are in Christ-meet
never to part again. Let us begin to love
each other better; to care less for the world;
to be travelling onward. Let us hear the
voice saying: BOOT and saddle; this is no
resting-place for the army of the Lord"
Onward and upward. Henceforth be this
our motto; and SO let us go hence with this
blessing. May the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ who wept and the love of God the
Father, who saw his Son die; and the COM
munion of the Holy Spirit, who is the Com