The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-14
Religious Notes.


Trouble is the engine in Gods hands to lift us
up to heaven.
"a man that is young in years may be old in
hours, if he has lost no time"
Everybody sees the cloud on the horizon, but
who thinks Of the clear sky above it,
Dost thou love life9 Then do not squander
time, for that is the stuff life is made Of.
The white members of the Southern Method
list Church were doubled in fifteen years, 1866 to
1881.
Since the war the colored Baptists have grown
from nothing to over six hundred churches In
Texas alone
The Presbyterian Church raised for missions,
home and foreign, during the past year, the sum
of 81, 3l3, 55l 80
Bishop McNeirney has prohibited the sale of
liquor, including lager beer, aud the opening of
bars at picnics in the Roman Catholic diocese OF
Albany.
THE same silly reasoning says DR.. E A.
Kittredge. which would do away with the creed
of the church would do away with the constitu-
ton of the state"
General Logan Mrs. Logan, and two of their
children are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. and Mrs Logan is earnestly interested
in the cause of temperance.
The Moravans are reported to give one in
ifty-eght of their numbers to the missionary
work, and their converts number four times as
many as their own brotherhood.
The plenary council to be held IN Baltimore,
IL November will consider among other subjects,
the best methods of gathering the colored people
of this country into the Roman Catholic Church.
Do you think of one falsity as harmless, and
another slight, and another as unattended!
Cast them all aside; they may be slight and &C
cidental but they are ugly SCOT from the smoke
of the pit for all that-John Ruskin.
Members of the United Presbyterian Church
opposed to the use of musical instruments at
service will hold a convention at Xenia, Ohio,
next fall, and consider the question of seeding
from the present church organization on account
Of tie use of organs in the churches
Rev Dr. S. NJ Vernon will deliver the annual
sermon, also the alumnal address at the APP
preaching commencement of the Simpson Cen
tenary College. Dr. Vernon had the honor to
be the first president of this growing institution
and he is promised royal welcome by hosts of
friends who remember his energetic and success
full administration.
There has just been published in England q
quaint old poem on the Lords Prayer. 1t has
been beautifully printed in colors. OF the same
poem there two MS. copies, enc said to be in the
handwriting of King James /. the Scottish Solo.
mon, and the other in the handwriting of the IA
nous Bishop Andrews, of Winchester, in the
reign of the first Stuart
The following Roman Catholic institutions in
Palestine are under the direction of the Commits
sa1iat of the Holy Land whose headquarters are
in New York city. Churches attended by the
fathers, Sc; converts and hospices for the pill
grims, 46; sanctuaries A. orphan asylums, 3;
parishes, 80; seminaries for novlces S. elemen-
tary schools for boys, 81; elementary schools for
girls, IL
According to the New York Tribune the mort
gage on the Madison avenue Congregational
Church. where Rev. DIR. John p. Newman
breaches is in fair way to be paid Not by a
general subscription from the enrolled bands of
Ranneylres and Newmanites. butby some friends
OF the acting pastor, who think that they can af-
ford to take mortgage of $50 900 on property
venience or danger of loss.
Many man put in seed who never saw the
harvest, just as many another brought home ripe
sheaves on which he bestowed no labor save that
of the sickle The worker for Christ. therefore,
is to work in faith, expecting the divine hand to
secure the result He has abundant reason to
believe that good is done of which he has no
knowledge and will have none until the great
day. 1t may be necessary for his own spiritual
welfare that he should be kept in this ignorance.
And certainly he renders small honor to the
Master when he perseveres in the face of all dis
eouragement.-J. W. Chambers