The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-14
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religious Notes.

iOOh LOT his text one plSdSetll me we'll
1t seems to me that death is just as good
thing as life, and that both are the gifts OF a
divine love.-James Freeman Clarke.
The church erected in Edinburgh as a
memorial of Rev. DR.. Guthrie. has just been
completed and opened for public worship.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are expected to
return to America this month, and commence
evangelistIc work again in London, England,
in September.
The Grocers' Company, London, uses be-
fore its feasts this prayer. God preserve
the church, the Queen and the Worshipful
Company of Grocers."
Riots occurred lately between Buddhists
and Romanists in Colombo, the capital of
Ceylon, on account of insults offered by the
Buddhists to the Catholic crucifx.
The census of missions to be taken next
year will, ii is estimated, show an increase OF
100000 native Christians in India Ceylon
and Burmah for the last ten years-500 900
in all.
We are insulting the Lord when we hire
men and women to sing his praises who take
his name in vain and scott at him as soon as
they are safely out Of the church limits
Watchman.
Brooklynite who has for years suffered
from i'll health until his frame has become
wasted and his temper querulous, peevishly
says; 81 m afraid there is no God in my con-
stitution.'
In the Episcopal Church at Dent, York
shire, two long shelves are filled every Sun
day with loaves for the poor, which they
carry away with them after the service. This
is solid religion.
One of the best definitions of faith was
given by bright Sunday-school boy to his
teacher: las near as l can make it out, it is
feeling perfectly sure of a thing when you
have nothing to back it up"
The Rev. Frederick Upham, one of the
best-known Methodist preachers in New En-
gland has just asked TO be put upon the re-
tired list. He has been engaged in active
ministerial work for sixty-two years.
Here is thing wherein 1 would willingly
have you agree; that is to dispute, and not
to QUARREL for friends dispute between them
selves for their better instruction, and enc
mics quarrel to destroy one another.-Plato.
DIR. Aaron Wood, now filling TOWNSVILLE
circuit Northwest Indiana Conference in the
sixty first year OF his itinerant ministry has
purchased home IN that village of Dan
Younts, in which to superannuate when nee
essary.
''The life OF Christianity" said Luther,
Consists of progressive pronouns" 1t is
one thing to say Christ is a SAVIOR" it is
quite another thing to saw 'He is my Savior
and my Lord" The devil can say the first,
the true Christian alone can say the second.
j. c. Ryle.
The voting on the basis by the quarterly
meetings of the Methodist church of Canada,
Is now almost completed, and the following
is the latest report of the results: Sixteen
boards have adopted the basis of union and
eighty-one boards have declared against it.
while ten of the boards are evenly divided.
The bane of our life is discomfort We say
we will work So long and then we will enjoy
ourselves But we find it Just as Thackeray
has expressed it: when | was a boy" he
said, 81 wanted some tatfy. 1t was shilling;
] hadn't one. When | was a man had
shilling, but 1 didn't want any taffy."-
Robert Collyer.
The Richmond Religious Herald seems in
clined to take step forward. 1t says: MAY
it not be pertinent to inquire whether there
are not discoveries in Bible truth to be made?
The atonement has other ends than saving
men hereafter. The Scriptures may have
been designed to make wise unto all saliva
ton, personal, social, political"
Bishop Riley, Episcopal bishop of Mexico,
has never received any salary, and has given
about $l5o000 during the past ten years to
the Christian work under his care These
facts are now made known by the report of
special committee representing the COM
mittee on foreign missions of the Episcopal
church and the house OF bishops.
1t has been decided to postpone the general
conference of the Evangelical Alliance ap-
will be held in September 1884. The post
ponement was at the request of Bishop
Beckman, who thought that the holding of
the state church diet in the same month
would interfere with the conference.
The Tablet, of London, publishes an arti-
Gle showing the growth of Catholicism among
h-speakingsnations In Great Britain,
since 1910, the churches have increased from
522 to l, 461 the laity, from 539, 500 to 1884,
In he tot in tba
period, the churches have advanced from 324
to 5000; the laity, from 666, $50 to G, 143, 000
According to the Baptist Yearbook for
1888, the number of baptisms last year was
Oh, $50, gain of 13, ITO upon 1881 The mem
bership was increased over all losses by
So, 100, and carried up to 2,3947 42. The con-
tributions for congregational and benevolent
purposes amounted in 1882 to So, 219, 39607,
an increase of $61S, 4S5.20 over the previous
year.
The Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky pro-
poses to raise $4,000 by next October to
erect dormitory aud boarding-hall as an
addition to the buildings of the Central Uni
versity, to be called the Centennial Memoir
rial Hall, and to commemorate the Tooth
anniversary of the establishment of Presby-
terianism in the State, which will occur in
October next
In Miles City. NJ. T., the Methodists be-
lleve in receiving contributions from any
body, whether good or bad, who is disposed
to give. They place contribution boxes in
the Neutrality-suspicious. and some of the pa
irons of those establishments drop coin or
two in whenever they take a drink. The
boxes become as full of money as the Gus
toners do of drink.
A short time since, says the Somerville
Tenn Falcon, one of the daughters of the
dusky race made her first visit TO the Epis-
copal Church in this place. She did not go
TO attend divine service, but her divine mis-
tress. On reaching home she said: Look
acre, missus, never seed such doin's as that
at church aforel The people they be's prayin
and prayin', and the preacher he holler at
UNI to get up! and den he gets mad and turns
his back on 'em, and don't have muffin to do