The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-04
RELIGIOUS Notes.

Some people are always finding fault with ma
ture for putting thorns on roses. l always
thank her for having put roses on thorns.-Al-
phonse Kari.
fraternity OF man, says the Independent to the
workngrnen who on Sunday gather and pro
claim their unbelief in Christianity.
A church advertises in a San Francisco paper
for "a minister of the gospel who preach
two strictly original sermons every Sabbath
one in the morning, for saints, and one in the
evening, for sinners.
Mrs Herrick wife of the rector of t he Episeo-
copal church at Fortress Monroe, has dressed
three thousand dolls within the last two years,
which she has sold at 81 each for various ecclesi-
astcal and charitable purposes.
AT a recent service at Mount Desert the ED
ers prayer realized at least the distracting ele-
ment of fashionable season. He prayed: 'Oh,
Lord, now that our summer visitors have de-
parted, wilt thou take their place in our hearts
measured and unlimited,
With noiseless slide of stone to stone
The mystic Church of God has grown,
Invisible and silent stands
The temple never made with hands.
j. G. Whittier
In a cemetery a little white stone marked the
grave of dear little girl, and on the stone were
chiseed these words. "a child of whom her
playmates said, 1t was easier to be good when
she was with u.s." / used to think, and l do
now, that it was one of the most beautiful cpl
taphs | ever heard.
Professor Andre, of the Alpine choir in Lon
don, recently offered a guinea each to ten desti-
tute families, who were, and always had been,
total abstainers from Intoxicating liquor. Only
nineteen applications were received from all
England. After careful investigation, but six of
them were found to conform to the condition of
the offer.
We have several brilliant preachers in our
city represented in the persons of the Rev.
Phillips Brooks, the Rev. James Freeman
Clarke and others; but Boston theology as a
rule, is fiat, dull, stale and improbable. Dry,
sapless formula are more abundant than vital
lied ideas, and an advanced civilization is still
fed on the worthless chaff of medievalism.
ton Saturday Evening Gazette
When we find in our experience that prayer
really does open the gates through which we are
admitted to the secret chambers of the Ruler of
this universe, the marvel is that we often forget
our privilege. "Knock, and it shall be opened
unto you" is true If not then every other
word to be unreliable henceforth, on just prin-
ciples, nothing promised in the Bible may be
trusted.
Archdeacon Lghtfoot prohibited an organist
from playing in an English parish church the
other day, because he had played the organ at a
Congregational church few evenings before.
He told the organists that by such schismatic
act he had cut himself off from the body of
Christ and from eternal salvation. The Arch
deacon is quite orthodox, which in the estima-
blon OF some people Is mucn DeVIer Ihan 10 De
charitable.
The late Jerry McAuley was undoubtedly an
example of the wonderful power of grace to
transform hardened criminal into devout and
earnest Christian. He did not glory in detailing
his life of crime, as is too often the case with
reformed men, but set himself to work in a
quiet and yet very earnest, way to recover the
lowest sinners of both sexes from their vices and
lead them to Christ In this humble and diff
cult work he was blessed with great success.
The Roman propaganda has an immense force
of missionaries in the field 1t has under its
control it is said, no less than 200 missionaries,
of whom 1000 are Capuchins, laboring in India
and the islands of the Indian ocean; 900 Fran
ciscans in Morocco and various parts of America;
800 Oblates in Jaffa, Natal and Ceylon; 700
priests of tho foreign mission in Malosia, Corea
and Tonquin; 1000 Jesuits In British Guiana,
Armenia and Madagascar 200 priests OF the
congregation of the mission, Familiarity called
Lazarists, in Persia, Abyssinia and Kiang Su;
800 Dominicans in the Philippine islands, Cen
trail Tonquin and elsewhere 1t is claimed that
in 1883, as the result of the labors of 700 of
these missionaries, 10000 children of Christian
and &c. 900 of heather parentage were baptized.
Four new stations of the McAll mission, in
France have recently been opened making
ninety-four stations in all.