The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-20
Religious Notes.

Those who live in the Lord never see each
other for the last time.-German Motto.
He who prays much in secret will usually
pray well in public. -Religious Telescope.
A noble and attractive everyday bearing
comes of goodness, of sincerity, of refinement;
and these are bred in years, not IN moments. II.
D. Huntington.
to run Sunday trains. The Glasgow Herald re-
marks that, now they are established, much Of
the unreasonable prejudice originally existing
has died out, and a great public necessity has
been secured.
The Bible Society has determined to stop
putting Bibles in railroad cars. One of its
officers said: 'Of a thousand distributed, we
believe that ten were read, while three hundred
were so m~utilated as to be worthless, and four
hundred stolen"
Human love, when deep and true, is never
ashamed of the lowliness of its object. A truly
noble nature recognizes a friend the more he
needs help. Though we are mean, and low, and
despised, yet Christ is not ashamed of us, be
cause he loves us.-Rev Newman Hail.
: The Guardian, which is the most influential
and widely-read religious paper in England, no
ticing that the cattle disease is now prevalent in
the Territory Of Wyoming, states with oracular
gravity that this is the region referred to by
Campbell in his poem, Gertrude, of Wyoming"
Bishop Merrill, when a boy, used to make
boots and shoes, in Hillsboro, Ohio, where he
recently presided over the Cincinnati Confer
ence, and the man is still living who remembers
the chastisement which befel the embryo bishop
on a certain occasion when he played truant In
stead of sticking to the last"
The Rev. DR.. Gordon, of st. Andrews Church,
Glasgow, burns incense in his church, and APP
peals to devout ladies to send him money to buy
it. He also asks them to get him a chime of five
bells. 1.-THE first five wise virgins" he says,
whose hearts shall be opened to give a bell each,
or q cnheorinti0n Inward the halfrV shall he
rung into the kingdom of Heaven by the suf-
frage of J. G. +. Gordon, D.. d.
When a church member, who has not been
seen at the prayer-meeting for a year, comes in,
the week after conference, and exhorts his breth-
rem to stand by the minister, it is apt to strike
the regular wheel-horses as slightly inconsistent
They can hardly be condemned for a quiet smile
behind their hymnals, but it should be speedily
followed by a sincere prayer that the new re-
cruits will hold out" They may. the church
needs them, and they need the church.
The Chicago Interior is very much outspoken
against what is known as the faith cure. It says:
THE faith cure is just now attracting large
numbers who are either naturally feeble in
mind or are on the border of insanity. In one
of their circles in a Chicago suburban church, a
sister related her experience, as having prayed
for the cure of a sick cat, and announced that
the Lord had answered her prayer. This comes
very near insanity, if it be not idiocy. No one
can be responsible for the vagaries of half de-
mented people, but 1t reflects dlShonor and dis
respect upon the church where such religious
follies are eneourgeds
Quite a stir has been made recently in Cal
cutta by the M-ohammedans p~arading several So
called European converts to the faith of Islam.
The triumph was short-lived. We learn that
nearly all the converts have disappeared, and
the moulvi, who was the chief recruiter, now
speaks against Mohammedanism, and has made
q formal avowal Of his faith in Christianity. An
other moulvi has been baptized. The Indian
Witness comments: ''The attempt to make
capital out of worthless loafers deserved the dis
comfture which has overtaken it, and we now
the temptation to win a cheap triumph by be-
ing in too great haste to receive spurious Mo-
hammadans