The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religious Notes.

Fletcher: The only way Of conQuerlng sin Is
to fail wounded and helpless at the Redeemer's
feet.
The Baptist Church alone has Ill missiona
ries. SOP native helpers. 46S churches, and D. 94
church members in Buruah.
William Taylor, the evangelist, is elected to
represent Tie South India Methodist lay-electoral
conference in the general conference, Philadel-
phia, in May.
The Oldest Congregational pastor west of Chi
cage is Rev. DIR. Allen B. Robbins, of Muscatine,
Ia, who has Just completed forty years service
with one church.
Canon Farrar: Intoxicating drink in England
costs annually more than ESQ, 600. GOO, and the
results of drunkenness El00, coo, 000-a total OF
no less than f2j0, coo. 900.
Governor Robinson. of Massachusetts, is the
superintendent Of the Unitarian Sunday-school
IN Chicopee, and last Sunday was found in his
accustomed place in the school.
Philadelphia has a Sunday Breakfast Associa-
ton, which gathers in the outcasts every Sunday
morning, warns them up with a hearty break
fast, and then talks the gospel to them.
Lord Ripon, viceroy of India, who is a Roman
Catholic, is reported to be in favor of abolishing
the law by which 200 Anglican c%lergymen in that
territory are paid out OF the Indian treasury.
In Melbourne a Presbyterian minister has been
permitted to preach in an Anglican church. The
event has called out much criticism in England.
The person in authority who allowed it is re-
ported to have committed an act of apostacy.
DR.. Vincent advises that parental authority be
used in the matter of studying Sunday school
lessons at home, as is done to compel attention
to arithmetic and grammar. AT any rate, the
lesson should be studied and then committed to
memory.
At Tie monthly meeting of the Salt Lake Nor
mon priesthood. held Jan. ), Bishop John Sharp
said tilat while in Washington recently he had
seen enough to convince him that no power but
the Almighty could save the Mormon people. II
God didn't pilot, the ship would go down.
Says the Episcopal Recorder: There is a
wonderful power in figures after all. And when
we are told that the liquor traffic in this
country receives 1888, 900, 600, more than all the
laborers in the country earn, all the poetry is
taken out of our talk about hard times"
The laying of the foundation of a new Metho-
dist church in Christians, Norway. after being
talked about for thirty years, came off recently
with a grandeur commensurate with the long de
lay. The British ambassador, the Norwegian
Premier, and other high officials and noted per
sonages, were present.
DIR. Stoecker; the great German court chap
lain, is not noted for his courtiy manner or good
taste. His attack on the memory of Herr Las
q ker, on account of the latters religion, is in
keeping with his insanely intolerant course for a
number of years. Such a clergyman does more
to damage religion than Bob Ingersolrs lectures.
The annual meetings of the French Protestant
Historical Society have just been held at Mines,
and have been characterized by great desire to
do justice to French Huguenot history, which,
while it has been hitherto suppressed by the OPP
pressions of the government. is now being gath
cred and tabulated with astonishing fullness of
detail.
There is a cathedral in Paso del Norte. Mexico,
which is over 300 years old, and has had no re
pairs for at least POO years. 1t has no pews.
There is only a piece of carpet spread in front of
the altar, and on this the worshipers kneel one
at a time. Generations have come and gone.
and nothing has been done to improve their mode
of worship.
A strong intellectual movement is reported as
taking place in Iceland, which is being felt
throughout its entire length and breadth. At
the head of the enterprise is a teacher by the
name of Thorvald Thoroddson, of Mordruvellir
He has a colleague who travels over the island.
delivering lectures on religion. piety. general
culture. etc, and is establishing schools for
adults in many places.
DR.. H. A. Rowland: It is very often said that
aman has a right to his own opinion. This
might be true for a man on a desert island. whose
error would only influence himself. But when
he opens his lips to instruct others, or even when
he signifies his opinions by his daily life, then he
is directly responsible for all his errors of iudg-
ment or fact. He has no right to think a mole
hill as big as a mountain, nor to teach it, any
more than he has to think the world fiat, and
teach that it is so.
The movement in Germany for the better OBJ
seryance of Sunday isassuming considerable pro
portions. Since the beginning of 1888 nearly 200
tenters of population have declared in favor of
the closing of shops and the cessation of all work
ON Sunday. In Berlin u. 600 tPadeSmen have
p%etitioned the government for the abolition of
work ON Sunday. The movement has been
chiefly directed by a number of Catholic priests.
The empress OF Germany has contributed 10,
600 francs to the support of the movement.
DR.. Daniel Schenkel, the head of the radical
wing of the German rotestantenverein has re
signed his prOfessorship in the University Of
Heidelberg, and retires into private life. He
was a prominent man twenty years ago. but is
noun 1Rsangt fgnnAA4a. IL. Ill r. ~
tic favor with the great majority of the churches,
and Of the students, too. The theological facul-
ty at Heidelberg has eight professors. who
lecture to ffty-four students only, while 638
students read theology with fifteen professors at
Leipzig.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks says: "Some of you
are saying in your hearts, There are heather
enough at home. Let us convert them before
we go to China That plea we all know, and I
think it sounds more cheap and more shameful
every year. What can be more shameful than
10 make the imperfectiOn of our Christianity at
nome an excuse fornot doing our work abroad? 1t
IS asshameless as it isshameful. 1t pleads for ex-
emption and indulgence on the ground of its own
neglect and sin. 1t is like the murderer of his
father asking the judge to have pity on his or
phanhood. Even those who make such a plea
feel, l think, how unheroic it is"
A movement has been inaugurated for greatly
increasing the number of Wesleyan chapels in
the British metropolis. The object. as stated is
to provide additional chapels and mission-rooms
in the neglected districts of the great city. Sir
William Macarthur mas given $50, 600 for the pur-
pose. His brother, Mr.. A. Macarthur, has given
SO, 900. Promises have been literally made by
Others, and it is expected that the whole sum re
quired $780, 00) will be secured in a few days.
''The bitter cutlery of outcast London, " to which
reference has already more than once been made
In these columns. has aroused all the churches
and the well-to-do classes, and this Wesleyan
metropolitan chapelbuilding fund is one of the
results.
Christian Intelligencer: Mr.. Spurgeon. be-
fore leaving for Mentone, attended. as he always
does when well enough, the annual meeting of
the Pastors College, which he founded, and
which is mainly dependent on the gifts Of his
church. He said in his address that they had
now 100 students, had educated from the begin
ming 6G7, Of whom 527 remained as earnest