The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

Rev. Thomas 7. Tasker, ST, has been elected
president of the Board of Church Extension, in
place of Bishop Simpson, deceased.
Bishop CRANBERRY, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has accepted an invitation, it is
said from the Methodists of st. Louis to make
that city his home.
Sankey recently said that the choirs of churches
should be composed of Christians. He did not
think that God would bless a song of praise
from unconverted lips"
Rev. DIR. Jessep, of the American Board of Mis-
sions at Beirut, Syria, has, with his family,
sailed again for his long-tried field of labor in
good health and full of faith.
The most sublime announcement ever made to
man is that Jesus Christ came into the world to
save sinners; and yet we are so familiar with it
that we regard it as a commonplace.
An earnest Christian is always peculiar and
half incomprehensible to the world. He has
something which they have not, and which they
do not know how to reckon In their calculations.
There is a three fold submission to God-frst,
of our carnal hearts to his holiness; secondly, of
our proud hearts to his mercy; thirdly. of our re-
voting hearts to his sovereignty.-Dr. Manton.
Zone of the surest proofs of a genuine Chris
tan church" says the Richmond Advocate, lis
devotion to its minister; and if he be worthy of
love and sympathy, it is scarcely possible for
this devotion to be excessive either in view of the
preacher himself or of his people"
Says this Indian Witness: George H. Stuart.
of Philadelphia, has undertaken to raise
10, DOORS. toward the erection of a new Methodist
church at Mussoorie. As Mr.. Stuart is a Presby.
terrain layman, his action in this matter does
great credit to his Christian liberality."
Rev. John Talbot, a superannuatcd member
of the Indiana Conference, and living at Or
leans, Ind, has become totally blind. For sev-
eral months his eyesignt has been failing, and u
few days ago the light faded away, and he was
left in darkness. Notwithstanding this severe
affection. he is as cheerful as it is possible for
him to be. l%aborilg, as he is, under other bodily
infirmities. II am trying, said he, addressing
his pastor, every day to make the best of my
condition, and, while my eyes are blinded, the
true light shines into MY soul." Brother Talbot
was admitted into the Indiana Conference in
1888. The widow of tho late Rev. DR., ii. S.
Talbot, and mother of Rev. II. J. Talbot, pre-
siding elder of the Rockport district, is also
living at Orleans, and is also blind and in feeble
health.
Many high tributes are paid to Lord Ripon,
the retiring Viceroy, by the press of India. Said
the Indian Spectator recently: India has to
part with her popular Viceroy. the ruler who,
more than almost all his predecessors, comes
nearest TO our ideal Of what the representative
of her imperial Majesty ought to be. If right.
eousness has any value for the practical politi-
clan Mr.. Dadabhai NaorojTS description Of the
outgoing Viceroy--the'savior of the people'-will
hold good forever. Here we are eminde Of
Lord Ripon's first speech in India i'll course of
which he said to the citizens of Bombay: Gen
tlemen, judge me by my acts There has
scarcely been time enough to form a Judgment
and the unexpected has often upset our calcula-
tions during The past two years. But still the