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

bishop for Japan.
Rev. Dr. Granville Moody is preparing his
autobiography. 1t will be published by
Messrs. Walden & Stowe
There is in man higher than love of hap
piness. He can do without happiness and
instead thereof find lessedness.-Thomas
Carlyle.
Mr.. Gladstone contributes to the Nine
teenth Century translation into Italian of
Cowper's well-known hymn, "Hark, my
soul, it is the Lord"
The American Presbyterian missionaries,
who returned to their posts in Egypt after
the war. are laboring as diligently as ever,
but with more manifest tokens of success.
The Methodist, of London, says a Church
OF England Bishop said to a Wesleyan MIN
lister, You are better endowed than we are. "
1t Is stated that there are in the established
church 1000 ministers unemployed.
The average length of missionary service
in Japan has thus far been no more than
seven aud one-third years for men and four
and two-thirds for women. The average for
men in India is nearly eighteen years.
Mgr. Capel defines charity as including
all that is meant by philanthropy, and,
added to it, the love of man, because he
is a creature of God, friend OF God and
because God has imposed it upon us as a
duty.
Dartmouth College is to receive $40 o0O
from the estate of the late Judge Jason
Downer, of Milwaukee, Wis. under the pro-
visions of his will. Judge Downer was grad
uated from that institution in the class
of 49,
In her last moments an old .. P. Presby-
terrain sister is reported to have summoned
all her strength to gasp this ante-mortem
protest against the organ: when l am gone,
! don't want no patent thing a-squeakin'
over me-"
There lisa religious movement afoot among
the London police. Meetings and Bible
classes are being organized, and Christian
Policemen's Association has been organized,
with the cordial sanction of Sir Edmund
Henderson.
Mr.. Spurgeon says: 1.-THE reasons which a
good woman presented for objeeting to a
preacher were striking ones She said in the
first place he read his sermon; in the second,
he did not read it WE'LL and in the third
place it was not worth reading.
What is there so beautiful as lovely old
age2 What does it matter if the hair is white
and the cheek has lost its glow, if the eyes
shine with a triumphnt light, and one can
fairly feel that faith that lends sweetness
to the glance, a cadence to the voice?
1t is stated in the Philadelphia Presbyte-
rian that ''the fifteen Presbyterian churches
about $50 public-school teachers, or nearly
ehe-third of the entire corps of teachers en-
gagged in the st. Louis public schools"
Sankey would have none but Christian
choirs in church. He says that when he and
Moody went to England they sent word to
places where they were to hold meetings that
they wanted pious singers only. So far as
they departed from that rule they did not
produce good results.
After pause of six years, Dean Howson
has decided to proceed with the restoration
of Chester Cathedral, and has made an ap-
peal for 915,000 for the execution of the
work. A subscription of $4,000 has been re-
ceived for the erection of certain handsome
mosaics in the editice.
If any man among you seem to be religious
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
own heart, this mans religion is vain. Pure
religion, and undefled before God and the
Father, is this--to visit the fatherless and
widows in their afflietion, and to keep him
self unSpotted from the worId.-St James.
Myatt Kya, handsome young Burmese,
has spent thirteen years in Michigan, fitting
himself to teach the gospel to his country
men, has studied medicine in the mean
while, and also the use of the plow He
expects to astonish the people at home
with steel pillow he is to take back with
him.
A Presbyterian clergyman, when visiting
an unfinished ritualistic church in this city,
wrote with the carpenters chalk upon the
wall: II publish the banns of matrimony
between this Church and the Church OF
Rome" A wag seeing the notice chalked
under it: II forbid the banns, the parties
being too near of kin"
A Presbyterian church was organized re-
Gently in Monterey, Cal, in the room in
| which the California Legislature sat in 1S49
and in which the first constitution of Cali
! fornia was adopted. the old town has
| taken a fresh start and has grown RAPIDLY
| the past two years. There are now l, goo in
habitants, half of them Protestants.
According to the Catholic Directory, u
the number of Catholics in the United States
was 100 900 in 1874, and 0s480, 600 in 1882
| This is equivalent to an increase OF about q
| per cent. in ten years. But the census O
| 1880 shows that the total population of tht
| United States increased 80 per cent in ter
| years--half as fast again as the Catholics.
! The Basic Missionary Society, which has al
ready contributed so many trained mission
aries for service in heather lands, continues
in full activity. In July it sent out nin'
newly-ordained men to divide their services
| between three great countries, Africa, Indl
and China. There remain no fewer thar
seventy young men under its training in it
/ college.
| Goethe said: "Do not wait for extraordi
nary opportunities for good actions. bu
make use of common situations" That il
| good advice, Johann Wolfgang. Not lon,
since man was polite to an old lady in th'
cars, and she left him huge fortune 1t i
safe to be polite all the time, even to th'
aged and ugly, and then the unexpected ma.
happen.
Rev. Dr. L. M. Vernon writes to the mis-
sion rooms of the death, on Sept. 3D. of hi
little daughter, Margherita. but eighteer
months old. She is laid beside her littl
brother at the Oetian Gate, by the walls o
the Eternal City, among the stranger dus
| from every nation and tongue. On one sid
sleeps DR.. Maclay's grandchild, from Japan
on the other, the little son of a Russian lady
The following are the Presbyterian
| Churches in the United States with owe
1000 members: The Tabernacle, Brooklyn
1856; Third, Chicago, 2,085; Lafayett Avenue