The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-29

many more to comfort. Chopin.
No great characters are formed in this world
without suffering and selfdenial.-
Henry.
On sun-dial which stands upon the pier at
Brighton is inscribed this most hopeful line:
''Tis always morning somewhere in the world
when in society never talk of yourself is
the injunction of an authority on etiquette.
People in society never do-they run down other
people.
The Examiner says: Few intelligent per-
sons will claim that lenten observances can
plead any scriptural sanction in the way of pre-
cept or example"
Reflection is an angel who every day bears re
ports to heaven Of our doings here, and when
the books are opened we must answer for the
records kept-Hazlitt.
A nephew of the King of Corea, son of its
prime minister, and the son of military man
DARN have entered the Southern Methodist Col
lege at Shanghai, China.
Rev. W. S. Hamlin, formerly a member of the
Southeast Indiana Conference, has entered the
practice of the law, and was admitted to the bar
last week as an attorney.
A church in Connecticut by resolution, for
bids its members to drink Intoxicating liquors.
explicitly excepting hard cider" That IS their
particular kind of vanity
General Clinton B. Fisk, speaking of the dedi-
cation of the Park avenue Church i'll New York
on Sunday evening, said that the Methodists
have q, 600 churches, and are building 1000 a
year right along.
When go out of doors in the summer night,
and see how high the stars are, i am persuaded
that there is time enough here or somewhere for
all that | must do; and the good world manifests
very little Impotence. Emerson
The new Baptist Church in Salt Lake City has
been completed, and Baptist gentleman has be-
come responsible for the support of Rev. H. G.
Dewitt d. D., the well-known evangelist, to la
Dor there for an indefinite period,
Mrs. Fenno Tudor of Boston, member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, has bequeathed
to Boston university Sc, 900, onesixth of which
is to assist needy young women to pursue study
in the university school of medicine.
The Supreme Lodge of the Hebrew Order of
the Kosher Shell Barrel, has endowed the Home
for Aged and Inirm Israelites, located at Gin
cinnati, with $75, 600, in honor of Sir Moses
Mentefore, the great Jewish phlanthropist.
DIR. Birch, of the British Museum, has re-
Gently deciphered an Egyptian hypocephalus,
which, it is said, expresses in clear terms the
Egyptian idea of fhe immortality of the soul. A
hypocephalus is a disk placed under the heads of
mummies.
The Presbyterian Journal thinks wehave heard
long enough about ministers who will draw that
it is time something was said about churches
that draw. There is magnetism in a united,
holy, Jealous church that will attract in spite of
adull pulpit.
Religious liberty is far from being an accom-
Plished fact in England. For instance, there
are to-day in one district in Suffolk thirteen CON
tiguous parishes in which non-conformists are
not allowed to have room in which to conduct
religious meetings.
There is no private life which has not been de-
termined by wider public life, from the time
when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with
the wanderings Of her elan, because the COW she
MIXED was of herd which had made the
pastures bare-George Eliot.
A poor child, straying into a Sunday school,
asked: is this the way to heaven~ Surely, it
ought to be that all Sunday schools and
churches are but station houses on the road to
heaven, through which the narrow way" passes
and from which it receives its reinforcements of
travellers.
A theatrical performance for the benefit of the
children of INDECENT clergymen would be a singu-
lar occurrence in this country. But at the
Drury Lane, in London, recently a pant0mime
was performed at which the smaller clergy and
poorly paid curates and their children were the
invited spectators
To forgive our enemies, yet hope that God will
punish them, is not to forgive enough. To for
give them ourselves and not to pray to God to
forgive them is partial piece of charity. For
give thine enemies totally and without any re
serve that, however, God will revenge thee
Sir Thomas Browne
Pope Leo XIII, according to the Churchman
is preparing the way for the election of "a liberal
Pope as his successor. Should the present lib
eral attitude of the Pope it says, toward mod
ern life and thought continue for generation, it
is difficult to say what changes may not take
place in the spirit and working policy of the Ro-
man Church"
A Clinton, Mass, clergyman announced that
he would preach last Sunday from the longest
verse in the bible and would not announce his
text but would give silver dollar to every
member of the Sunday school who would find
thirty eight correct answers, and distributed
tkrty- eight silver dollars to the fortunate chill
dren.
Speaking of the want of interest in religion
among the masses the Christian lntelligencer
says, in regard to evangehstic meetings:
'Where hundreds come thousands stay away
thousands who live on from day to day without
God and without hope, who care nothing for tine
Bible, who never bend the knee in prayer, who
are hurrying on, except they repent, to a woful
eternity"
"A man of faith" says the Indian Witness, re-
ferring to the world renowned George Muller,
now visiting India, lis man of Goa, a man
who has bid farewell to the feverish ambition of
the world, who has learned TO desire God him
self more than all earthly good, and who would
be perfectly willing to accept an existence in
which there should be nothing left to him ex-
cept God
For some time past it has been in contempla-
ton to adopt some more effective means for the
Contamination OF the Arabs in the desert
They have been approached successfully IN the
towns, but not much impression has yet been
made upon those who dwell in tents A bazaar
has just been held in Edinburgh in aid of mis-
sion to the Bedouin Arab tribes in the region
about Damascus.
The Baptist Weekly thinks women capable
of taking part in the business meetings of the
churches, and says: 1.-The signal ability and
success with which they conduct their home
and foreign missionary societies has opened
mulhtudes of eyes as to what they capable
of doing. The Christian women of to-day
are not the sort of women that SO great man
as Paul would have kept silent in the churches.
New York Advocates Infdels are talking in
despairing way. One has said: After all we
have done for the past thirty years, people flock
TO hear these ministers and fill up their mourn
ers benches and anxious seats, and give their
money, and we can't get any money for any
thing Yes, friend. it was always so. Run over
the history Of infidelity, and You win see your