The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
Religious Notes.

We ask advice, but We mean appreciation.
Cotton.
The incarnation teaches man the greatness of
bis misery by showing how great a remedy was
needful.-Pascal
Rev. E. I. D. Pepper succeeds the late Rev.
John S Inskip as editor of the Christian Stand
ard and Home journal,
Over fifty churches are standing in Nebraska
and Dakota as monumen to Bishop ClalRsons
worth and especial labors in securing their cree
ton.
Professor Swing: Man is exhausted by a few
hours of delay, nature can wait, if need be, a
million years. God is eternal and can wait for
man.
The new Baptist Church at Salt Lake City,
Utah, has been completed, with a twe-story
school-house adjoining, the expense being about
So, 900.
The Rev. w. W. Evarts has resigned the pas
torale of Madison avenue Baptist Church, Jersey
City, in order to devote his time exclusively to
literary work.
There are forty Chinamen among the Episco-
pal Sunday-schools of Philadelphia who contrib
ute toward the support of a free hospital bed in
Wuchang, China.
Take short views of earth-heaven always be-
ing the beyond on which the eye loves to linger
as on the glowing tints of the horizon in the twi-
light of a summer evening.
Aeat is made by Rev. J. @. Foster, secretary
of the reunion committed of the United States
Christian Commission, for a reunion of delegates
and chaplains at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chi
cago, at noon on April 4.
Zion's Herald: We must be willing to carry
the cause of the poor upon our hearts and
make it a part of our hfe-work, never for
getting to regard Gods poor as our brothers and
sisters-our own Fathers children.
When a mans finger is not like those of other
people, he knows to feel dissatisfied; but, if LIS
mind is not like that of other people, he does
not know to feel dissatisfied. This is called ig-
norance of the relative Importance of things.
Hindu.
Henry Ward Beecher: If the foot has the
govt the hand knows it. The ear cannot ridi-
cule the eye nor the eye the car. We are coupled
together in body; so we are in human society,
He WHO violates the laws of morality Injuries all
those around about him.
The Rev. David Winters, of Dayton, O., on
Thursday astmarriedhi MS 4. 9SOth couple, and after
the ceremony wished the bride as much happi-
ness as had been the lot of her good father and
not less estimable grandfather, at whose wed
dings he had had the pleasure of officiating.
If souls be made of earthly mould,
Let them love gold;
If born on high,
Let them unto their kindred fly;
For they viii never be at rest
Till they regain their ancient nest.
George Herbert.
Evidence is now being plentifully furnished
that the Palestine Exploration Fund has really
done good work. Out of the go places in Pales-
tine, west of the Jordan, mentioned in the Bible,
430 have been identified. OF these identiica-
tons 1872 were made by the Palestine EXplora-
ton Fund.
American Hebrew. Jews do possess q mission.
As priests of the Lord, they must always appear
spotlessly white. To be a holy nation means to
gloFify the God of Israel in ones conduct, so that
mankind may manifest1y discover the indwell-
ing spirit of truth, and be drawn to monotheism
and to a soulelevating and purifying faith.
The Methodist Church South has completed ar
engagements for establishing an American college
at Shanghai, China, and their missionary, the
Rev. Young ]. Allen, will soon sail for that des-
tination with a corps of fourteen teachers,
among whom is a sister of the Rev. G. Atticus
Haygood, who is principal of the Atlanta (Ga.
High-sehool.
WHY is it. asks a religious exchange, that
so many professedly religious newspapers have
so much to say about infidels and freethinkers,
keeping their readers posted as to the scurrilous
sayings of satanic symposiuIns and leaving I'M
said so many holy, blessed things that the
church is starving to heart" Because, dear
brother, satanic symposiums pay better than
blessed things in these degenerate, worldly
days.
The Hartford Conn Times tells the story of
a theological student, soon to be graduated. who
has a Bible class in one of the churches of that
city. The subject of Sundays lesson was the
Second Coming of Christ" Several of the
good people expressed their views quite freely,
after which it occurred to some that it would be
Z W ANFA AtA WV ~ ANHt4CN
six years ago l could have told you all about it,
but to-day l can't tell you anything.
No one needs distilled spirits except in sickness.
Nobody in health drinks it with his meals as a
cheering OF digestive beverage. 1t is probably
never taken by a healthy man without more or
less physical or moral damage. In other words.
it is a huge national curse. The number of peo-
pie who begin to see this is increasing, and they
are likely every year to become a greater ana
greater proportion of the American people.
Lawrence Trumbull, in Baltimore Sun.
Men of science tell US on every side that sci
ence teaches them nothing of God. That is the
very thing we are told in the words Of the Scrip
ture: ''fhou canst not by searching find out
God" Mysteries are brought before US which
no effort ON our part enables us to solve. So far
from inducing doubt, they should encourage
our faith. As we are in the presence of infinite
space and infinite time, so also are we in the
presence of infinite wisdom and power.-Rich-
ard A. Proctor.
The United Presbyterian Church Of Scotland
has always been noted for the interest it has
taken in foreign missions. 1t has just held its
annual missionary meeting. The secretary's re
port shows that during the year the church has
contributed f36, 600 pounds and over, about
$lS1, $50. Eight Of the young men who are com
pleting their studies at the Theological Hall. in
Edinburgh, have offered themselves for foreign
mission work. A special mission fund, called
the Zenana Fund, was honored during the year
to the extent Of about 500, 900.
A calm, self possessed captain of a vessel was
asked: Captain, l suppose you know where
every rock and shoal is along this whole coast,
do you not?7 Il know where they are not, 3" was
his reply, which is a more important thing. " Ad-
mirable answer. If your faith is fixed on God,
and your heart is welded TO his service, you will
know where the dangers, and difficulties, and
mysteries, and contradictions are not Riding
peacefully upon the great deeps of His love,
your greatest joy will be that you no longer
live by doubts, but by afirmations.-Dr A. J.
Gordon.
The old and wellknown Scottish Presbyterian
Church, so long presided over by the late DR..
John Cumming, famous for his unfulflled pre-
dictions and his threatened Great Tribulation,
is at last about to be abandoned by the old his
toric congregation. The site is sought for bust
ness purposes, and the old landmark, familiar to
many generations as Grown Court, Covent