The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-06

miles to attend the evening meetings, which
frequently lasted till IL o'clock, returning
home the same night.
According to the statistics of the Presby
terrain Church, the remarkable fact is brought
out that the additions to the churches, on
confession OF faith. during the last year, have
been much larger in proportion among the
heathen than at home. The accessions on
confession, taking the statistics of the previ-
Gus year as the basis, were, in the synod of
China, near % per cent Ia 4-5); in the synod
OF New York, comprising the whole State,
only per cent. There has been an actual
decrease in the number of church members
In the synod of New York, while in the sy
nod OF China there was a net increase Of 231z
per cent.
Independent: I'VE have for some years
refused to regard Dr. Kalloch's Baptist
church in San Francisco as a Christian
church at all. 1t has been a 'sand-lot' church,
a 'hoodlum' church, but not church of
Christ. The Baptists found that ont year
or two ago, and they went out from it, form
ing new association for the very purpose
OF getting rid of it and its pastor. Now we
have the report, which ought not to surprise
u.s. that it was let for the late prize-fight in
that city, and was filed with such crowd of
roughs as no church ever saw before, while
the two combatants spared over the plat
form from which Kalloch has been wont to
curse the pig-tail Chinaman. But the gate
money paid"
There is peculiar attractiveness and i'm
pressiyeness in sermons which in any marked
degree enlarge the range of our thought and
feeling with respect to religion. On the
other hand, there are no sermons more GER
tain to repel in the long run than those
which make us feel that religion is small;
that its range is narrow and confined; that it
touches our life slightly and at a few points,
that 1t appeals to one faculty only of our ma
ture; that it can only be expressed in terms
which jar harshly and strangely on the ear
1t is useless to defend preaching, as preach
ing, when it is emphatically of this latter
kind. People will get tired of it, and it is
simply of no avail to tell them that they
ought to go and hear it. or to lament that
they Disregard it or scof at it.-Christian
World
After a good deal of trouble and delay a
Patriarch has at last been chosen for Jerusa
lem. The late Patriarch Hierotheus was
killed by falling from his horse, and since
then various attempts have been made to
elect a successor. The new Patriarch was Sc
lected by the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepul-
cher, who sent word of their choice by teIe
graph to the Ecumenical Patriarch, and to
the represent tive of the Pc triarchate of Je-
rusalem. Nicodemus, Arch bishop OF Mount
Tabor who has been spending some time in
Moscow, was chosen Patriarch of Holy Sion
by unanimous vote of the eighteen mem
bers of the Electoral Assembly. The Patri-
arch-elect, numbered from his youth among
the clergy attached to the patriarchal throne
OF Jerusalem, was ever devoted to its inter-
ests. He has lately'been Hegumenos of the
monastery of the Holy Sepulcher at Moscow.
In October, 1881, he was elected by the Broth
erhood of the Holy Sepulcher Archbishop of
Mount Tabor, and was consecrated in ac-
cordance with letter of request from the
late Patriarch of Jerusalem, 'Hierotheus, by
Isidore. Metropolitan of st. Petersburg, on
January 3, 1882.
The Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Gar
den City, Long Island, built by the A. T.
Stewart estate, and st. Pauls school are de-
clared completed. The cathedral has been
five years in course of erection, and st.
Pauls school nearly three years. The cost
of the cathedral has been nearly 81 900, 900,
and the cost of the school 100000 The
bishops residence will be completed during
September. The cost of this building will
be $50 600 and the stables already finished,
have cost $40, 900. The interior of the cathe-
dral presents beautiful appearance. The
altar was made in Antwerp, Belgium 1t is
composed of statuary marble, In eight panels.
The statues of Hope and Religion are in posi-
ton, They were made in Florence, Italy.
The windows of stained glass were made in
London. They represent the childhood of
Christ. The glass in the windows of the
mausoleum was also made in London. These
windows represent the passion, death, resur-
days. The deans seat which will be filled
by the Rev. DIR, browne is of carved mahog-
any, and was made in Philadelphia. 1t has
not been placed in its appropriate position
yet. The pulpit and lecturn are of bronze.
They were made in New York, after designs
by Sibyl. The baptismal font is of marble.
The organ cost $780, 1000. 1t is in five parts,
and each part is played from the single key
board by electrical appliances. The chimes
in the tower are also played from the organ
keyboard by electrical attachments. The
organ cases are OF mahogany, carved in har-
mony with the stalls. The cases
and stalls together cost $4,000. The crypt is
of marble. and every country is represented
in its construction. The basement is fitted
with Sunday room and mortuary
chapel. The staircases are all of iron. The
walls and steeple of the cathedral are of Belle
vile New Jersey stone. The interior col
umns are of iron, ornamented with bronze
foliage. The edifce is heated by steam Two
engines in the basement supply power to the