The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-29

Religious Notes.

? DR. Waehington Gladden's church, at Column
bus, O., has 800 members.
There are now 264 evangelical congregations
In Mexico, with 60 600 permanent adherents.
David Livingston said; Il am a missionary,
heart and soul God had only one Son, and He
was missionary"
The headquarters and official organ of the
Salvation Army in America will be removed
from Brooklyn to Cleveland o.
A new cursive manuscript of the four gospels
has recently been discovered by Professor Long,
Of Robert College, Constantinople.
Methodist; No one will be appointed at pres
ent to take the place formerly held by DR.. Nc
Cabe in the church extension work.
By the first census of Japanese Christians
made by the government, they are numbered at
10000, including Roman Catholics and Greek
converts.
A grand cathedral has been built in Moscow
to commemorate the retreat of Napoleon from
Russia The edifce will accommodate 10, 900
worshipers, and has cost over 81. 000 000
Rev Joseph Harrington of Greensburg, Ind,
mas been appointed by Cranston d Stowe an
agent to sell Bibles and other subscription
books. He is one of the oldest and most favor
ably known ministers in Indiana
Mrs. Balfour; The best thing to give to your
enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance;
10 friend, your heart to your child good ex-
ample; to a father, Difference; to your mother,
conduct that will make her proud of you; to
yourself, respect; to all men, charity
May F. Mexican: There are many ways in
which it would be well for US all to carry our
childhood with u.s. even on into old age if it
were possible, in its trustfulness and open
heartedness and willingness, not only to love,
but to show that we love, as we'll Why, that
last alone would cure many heart-ache of to-
day.
Elder Swan, the last of the evangelists of
the old Calvinistic school. died last week. He
was man of great intellectual force and moral
power The writer once talked with him half an
hour without knowing who he was, and was so
powerfully impressed with his personality that
he went to the hotel register TO ascertain his
name.
Rev. II. LOOMS says that the priests of the
Hongaugi Temple, in Kioto Japan, have become
very much alarmed by the spread of the Chris
tan religion, and recently sent a delegation of
twenty eight of their number to Toxic to petit
ton the government to suppress the hated doc
trine They have tried abuse and argument
and now, as a last resort, they wish to have it
e suppressed by law. This action affords a con
trast to the recent bold .utterances upon Chris
tianity of Mr. Fukuzana, which have been widely
noticed in this country.
The Syrian orphan house, at Jerusalem, about
two miles to the northwest of the city, and man
aged by j. L. Schneider, German Protestant,
was founded IN 1860. European Christians have
established two other charitable institutions the
Talitha Cumi, an orphanage for girls, and the
Lepers Home; but, in respect of numbers, this
is the largest. Its inmates are the orphaned
children of both Christian and Mohammedan
parents, between six and twelve years of age,
and they are trained in the common branches of
education and to labor w tn their hands at some
useful trade. Religious instruction is also i'm
parted. In connection with the asylum is an up
per school seminary for schoolmasters and
eyangelists and a school for the blind. There
about 140 pupils and the expenses are paid
by voluntary contributions of friends of Jerusa-
lem, who desire to bring about again the preach
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proclaimed AS means toward the collection
of funds, pressed flowers are sold for the benefit
of the orphans They are gathered in the Holy
Land, and make handsome Christmas cards
Used postage stamps are also received, and sold
to amateur collectors. From this source alone
Hermann Loewenthal, of Cassel Germany has
been enabled TO send nearly $500 to the orphan
age. For dower-cards or information concern
ing the enterprise communications may be ad-
dressed to Mrs. Susan d. Smedes, So John
etreet Baltimore