The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

competent and enterprising leader.
A prominent minister of the Baptist Church
in Ohio, said that when he heard Of the death
of Bishop Simpson, he could think of nothing
else but what was said to Daniel Webster, by
one of his friends; The world will be lonesome
without you Soloyed was he by Christians OF
every name
IT might have done better" OF course you
might and you certainly can do better than to
be thinking all the time of the failures of the
past There is time for hearty repentance, but
none for morbid regrets, in this world, so full OF
work to be done Do your best to-day, and stlll
better tomorrow
After an aIl-night session at Normal III, the
committee trying the Rev. J. 81. Shay, Congre-
gational minister for heresy, reported him
guilty on two of the charges that he had denied
the miraculous conception and the deity OF
Christ After heated discussion the retention
of Mr.. Shay in the ministry was voted-l4 to ID
According to the official year book the Church
Of England last year provided school accommo,
dations for 2 1885, 900 children, against 1,3O0,OO0
by the school boards, and s54, 900 by all other
denominations, and the average attendance at
church schools was ], 535 600 out Of gross total
of Just over 3,0O0,O 600 A similar activity has
been displayed in Sunday schools.
The Chicago Advance says: Robert Ingersoll
informs us that he proposes to devote his ener-
gies to the utter destruction of the Christian re-
igion.S There was another Philistine who made
a similar proposition He defed the armies OF
Israel, and had large following Of admlrlng lit
tie Philistines. The Peoria Philistine has I'M
dertaken much larger task, and will meet the
same fate as his prototype
The age Of remarkable texts has not yet
passed. The Rev. Prof. Harris of Andoyer,
preaching at the installation of the Rev. Charles
r. Murcland at the Third congregational Church
at Chicopee, Massachusetts,, took this theme
"The condition in which preachers and churches
find themselves placed to-day and for his text
the following passage: Thy rowing hath
brought thee into great waters.
The Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago
was completed several years since, except the
tower. which was left built up to the roof and
capped over Recently, Mrs Barbara Armour,
widow of the late Geo. Armour, Esq, has I'M
dertaken to complete the tower, which is now
in progress. The top of the spire, which will
rise from the completed tower, will be 200 feet
week placed a memorial bell weighing three
tons, the gift Of Nh. Armour's children.
OF the clerical summer exodus" the Aneri-
can Hebrew says: Hebrew shrines, temples,
or synagogues of low degree or high degree,
have never been closed for VACATION; like the
doors of the great Catholic Church, he who
yearns for the courts Of the living God has
always found them open, never closed by au-
thority. So may it ever be viii us and with
our neighbors, that while q part Of the flock
home may not be outraged in their highest privi
leges Of worship by closing the shrinesn
Already more than S., 000, 900 is reported as
given to foreign missions by the London ami
versaries during the last year, with an expected
additional 81, 600. OF this the Wesleyan
Methodist Society raised $3.50, 600. The noble
bible Society is pre- eminentin its contribution
of $780, O00 The Tract Society follows
closely in its gifts of over 81, 000 00O Upward of
$1,000, 900 in all have been laid on the altar of
the church. There is, however, no occasion for
Boosting when 5000 000 600 have been placed on
fhoi ok nf no q fn f1s0fl
drink.
The Bishop of Liverpool has materially as
sisted the solution of the vexed question How
to reach the masses. He breaches in the open
air, in the great ship building yards at the noon
intermission. and among the IA, 600 carriers, with
their wives, children and babies, and to the men
of the great goods stations oftentimes from
9 900 to 8, 600 in one assembly Approached in
the spirit of Christ there is glad and hearty re-
Spouse and many won for the Master. This ex-
ample followed by bishops and the higher
clergy would make street-preaching honorable,
and result in the salvation of multitudes of per-
ishing souls.
Rev. Mr. Beecher's recent informal address
before tine Storrs Agricultural school at Mans
field, Conn, contains this pleasant reference to
the Storrs family II had learned something
about Mansfield through my friends the Storrses.
Old Dr.. Storrs, of Braintree, was one of my
earliest memories and his genuine eloquence
was the first that really reused and held me.
His sonis my neighbor, DR.. Storrs of Brooklyn.
Charles Storrs is my neighbor, and a great
friend Of mine. And last Augustus Storrs, here,
is the treasurer of my church. All my revenue
is in his hands When he asks me to come to
this place, know too much of human nature to
refuse Our income is from $40 600 to $780, 600
it all passes through his hands -and the stupid
man never stole a cent of it
private dispatch from Hong Kong an
nounces the total loss of the missionary brig
Morning Star, at Kusaie. All on board were
saved, and are en- route to San Francisco by the
steamer Oceanic The Morning Star was q yes
sci of ISL tons, built in East Boston in 1871.
She was the third of her name, the first having
been launched about thirty years ago The last
vessel was owned chiefly by the Sunday school
children Of the Congregational Church The
money to build each of these vessels was raised
by giving neatly printed certificate of owner
ship in her to each child who contributed
twenty-five cents A new vessel designed te
take the place Of the brig just wrecked is al
ready on the stocks at Bath, Me- she is ar
ranged for the use of auxiliary steam power fol
safety in Gains and currents.
Mr. Spurgeon was recently asked Il he thonehi
the world had grown better or verse since ht
came into it. fifty years ago. He replied that ht
thought in some respects it was worse. The
struggle for life he said lis harder now, it ii
more difficult to make living, and the destitu
ZION is more appalling, think, than it has evel
been. On. the other hand there had beer
many improvements, especially in the direction
OF intemperance. class OF men who were
very numerous when he first came to Londor
have now become extfnct-those good and re
spectacle gentlemen who never got drunk, bu
were in the habit of getting tolerably mellow
He thinks there is also an Improvement in the
attitude Of respectable people toward licentiou.
literatnfe Our grandmothers, he said tread
books which our daughters would be ashamed tx
open
We find the following pathetic words from
Rev. ID. "A. Day, in the Gospel in all Lands: III
this country Africa, in this land of oppression
and wrong have spent ten of the best years o.
my life. and hear the sad vail of a benighteG
continent. Only here and there is mission 81
fully manned that its faint light seems to glim
mer titfully in the gloomy darkness that may bt
felt Pray for Africa, that the sun of rigteous
ness, which shall be for the healing of the ma
stream with individual rays over this sin blighted
country, and gild its fertile hills and fruitful
valleys with purple and gold In the name q