The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-09
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

placed in the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster
Abbey.
The Shakers of South Union, La. one of the
thirteen Shaker settlements in the United
States, own 20 600 acres in one of the best parts
of Louisiana.
The Presbyterian Church is growing rapidly
in Mexico. It now has 100 congregations several
schools, ten native preachers and four more
ready for ordination.
Mr.. Robertson Smith has Just completed
brief commentary on the book of Genesis. He
intends shortly to publish popular critical re-
view Of the Old Testament
1t is estimated that the present rate of progress
of missions in China the next forty years will re
port 26,000,000 communicates and 100 600, 600
adherents in the Celestial empire.
Ex-President Hayes contributed 81, 800 for the
building of the new Methodist Episcopal Church
Fremont, O., and agrees to pay whatever the
ding costs in excess of $4,000.
'plnalrs Dictionary of Statistics" just
sd, the total number of Roman Catholics
ope is estimated at 147, 430 000 while the
,tants are put down at 1902, 900.
Who feels no ills
IDLY cautious, lest destruction come
seess on him. and he fail unpitied.
ipg-room has been opened at Savannah,
70 converted Hebrews, which is de-
= have Christian influence upon their
IN 1t receives the encouragement of the
RI and pastors of the city
are being perfected in Nashville by the
airy committee of the Methodist Episcopal
South for the raising of monumental
ring the year of 81, 900, 000 to be used in
lonal, missionary, and church-extension
its.
Whenever a man" says the Cumberland
.sbyterian, ''fnds himself in a place where he
got teach what he believes to be important
q let him give up the place and hold on to
ruth Let him lose his honors and save his
hood"
The children of missionaries are often found
voting themselves to the same service. Dr.
hn Scudder, an American minister, went to
liza in 1920 his sons became missionaries in
same field, and now two grandsons and
'pddaughter are preparing to enter upon the
.tl.,nk God for that word whatsoever" If
God had said there mercy for Richard Bax-
ter, / am so vile sinner that l would have
thought He meant some other Richard Baxter;
but, when He says whosoever, | know that in
cludes me, the worst of all Richard Baxters.
Baxter
There is said to be some prospect that the Es-
tabhshed Church in Scotland will at its next gen
eral assembly, decline to appoint delegates to
the Presbyterian Alliance, and so virtually with
draw from that body. 1t is understood that the
men taking this step seek closer alliance with
the Anglican Church
The small city of Astorga. Spain, was, on the
2Sth ult., the scene of a commoton. A party of
students, under the leadership of priests made
attack upon an Englishman and native hawk
ing Bibles. They even threatened to burn the
Spaniard. The victims unavailingly appealed
to the police for protection.
The Presbyterian women stand first among
the denominations of the United States who
during the past year gave 100000 to Christian
ize the heather. their share of this amount being
100000. The Baptists gave $l56OO0 Congre-
gationalists, $l30, 900; Northern Methodists,
SlOs, 900; Southern Methodists, $25, 100.
The King of Sweden has sanctioned the re
vised translation of the New Testament in that
language. 1t will now be used in the churches
and schools throughout the kingdom. In this
direction Sweden has marched quickly
than either Britain America. The version
displaced was one of the best of the Reformation
translatiOns.
An English religious fanatic, named Frederick
Boyce, is collecting $4,000 virgins He says
they are the IA 900 virgins alluded to in Reve-
latiens xiv; that they are Immediately wanted
by the Lord. 1t is said that hundreds have been
Geluded. probably ruined and feeced Their
headquarters is somewhere in Kentish Town,
near London.
A new religious sect in Boston holds that di-
sease is caused by the absence of God from the
body and that it can be cured by the passage of
the divine aff1uence from the well to the sick as
they sit with their spnes in contact 1t is said
to number among its votares people of influence
and prominence and some whose names are as
familiar as household words
A chantbook. used by Padre Junipero Sierra,
. W
exhibition in San Francisco. The padre died
one hundred years ago. and it is not known how
old the book is The volume measures twenty
2 four by twenty-six inches contains seventeen
leaves of coarse parchment and is bound be-
tween two oak boards, covered with hide, to
which little tufts of red hair still adhere.
Prince Galitzan, young Russian nobleman,
converted by Bible given him at the Paris ex-
hibition, proposes to build thirty Bible kiosks,
sand to fit up 'seven" Bible carriages He IN
tends to travel seven months in Russia with Mr.
Ciough, of Paris, whom he has engaged to have
charge of these carriages, saying: Since Christ
laid down his precious life for me, will give my
whole life, and time, and fortune to his service
In Rome there is a military church which has
Sunday school connected with it, the members
of which are soldiers of the army. Every soldier
recits a verse of Scripture he has committed to
memory and reads in turn from his own Bible.
The prayer is made by one of the soldiers every
Sunday. The general Sunday school work in
Italy is attended with difficulty and discourage
ment. many who would otherwise come to the
schools being kept away by persecution.
Boston Congregationalist: Mission ships seem
TO be an important part of evangelistc machin-
= cry nowadays. The London Missionary Society
sends out five large and several smaller vessels,
imong them the steel hfeboat on Lake flanagan
5ika while five other societies at least send out
Ine each. unique fleet this, and doing no in
significant work They are admirably fitted up
With full supply of books, tracts, or hymn books,
Bibles and Testaments in various languages
Some interesting and instructive figures have
just been published regarding the free non
endowed churches in England and Wales 1t
appears from these figures that connected with
these churches there are some 5000 minister's
Ii. 900 places of worship; the average attendance
On public worship, 4, SOC, 900; the income, so far
as can be gathered including the voluntary
churches in Scotland. exceeding 93OO0 OOO or
Sl5000, coo. There can be no two opinions as to
the testimony which is thus borne to the value
Of the voluntary principle.
Haydn always led a very religious life. All his
scores We're inscribed at the commencement with
the words, Sin nomine Domini," or 'Soli Dec
Gloria while at the conclusion of them is writ
ten his Claus Deo;" but Il was" he says
''never so pious as when engaged upon the Gre