The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
Religious Notes.

Bishop Walden is arranging to move to Chat-
tanooga within q month"; and enter vigorously
upon his work.
The Young Mems Christian Association OF
Boston has a building which cost $500, 00O; a
membership of ,3lO active MEMBERS anu I,oA1
associate members.
The bishops address to the United Brethren
Church shows that only about one-hah OF the
missionary debt, assumed by the several con
ferences, has been paid.
The Rev. Dr. Rankin, of Washington, ID. Y,
having accented the call Of Orange Valley IN.
J.) Congregational Church, will enter upon ms
new duties in September.
Bishop Ninde will visit Topeka next month,
and intends to remove his family there some
time in August. A proposition has been made
to provide suitable episcopal residence
Mr.. Moody on going back to England after an
of twenty backsliders from the ranks OF his
former converts had been drawn away by the
public houses.
Miss Fielde, the missionary to Swallow, China,
has written book, and Joseph Cook has written
the introduction. 1t will appear in september,
under the title, ''Pagoda Shadows; or Studies
from Life in China"
The first Protestant missionaries to enter
Corea are Rev. John Ross, ID, and United
Presbyterian brother from China. Dr. Ross has
mastered the COrean language, and made q
translation into it of the New Testament.
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established at Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee: 1t
will be under the supervision and conducted at
the expense of the Free Church of Scotland;
Missions in the Holy Land have not hitherto had
great success.
DIR. Law who was for eight years medical
missionary on Lake Nyassa. central Africa. has
completed the first draft of the translation of
the New Testament into the Chinanga and Chi
tougo dialects. The Gospel of St. Marx has
been printed and that of ST. John is passing
oh he I.aW
Siding at Edinburg.
All the church giving of the time illustrates the
power of the voluntary principle. The American
General Assembly raised during the year for
foreign missions the sum OF $TOO, QUO. In forty
years the Free Church of Scotland has raised
$751; 600 During the same period the United
Presbyterian Church of Scotland has raised $50
0000 00 1t is good record for Presbyterianism
The Observatory Romano publishes an official
report of the progress made in the work of the
sacred congregation in America since 1879 The
report shows that since the foundation of the see
of Baltimore twelve ecclesiastical provinces
have been erected in America, with twelve
metropolitan sees, ffty-four episcopal sees,
eight vicariates apostolic and one prefecture
apostolic.
Nowhere in Europe" says the Christian I'm
ion, lis the battle between liberalism and the
Roman Catholic Church being fought with more
intensity than in Belgium. Clerical influence
has left no stone unturned to Withstand the
rising tide of liberal opinion in a country which,
until recently, has been wholly under the do
mnion of the Church The burning question
of the day in Belgium is the seeularization of ed
ucation. The primary schools have continued I'M
der the influence of the Roman Catholic clergy.
The intermediate schools were thirty years ago
organized on purely secular basis. The text
books and direction Of the course of instruction
in the primary schools have recently been taken
entirely out of their hands, thus bringing the
primary into line with the intermediate schools. !"
1t was mentioned some weeks ago in these
columns that a wealthy gentleman of Glasgow,
impressed with a sense of the value of scientific
knowledge to the professional Christian teacher
had offered to give $50, 900 for the endowment
of chair of natural science in the Free Church
College of that city. 1t was further mentioned
that in the event of the chair being established
it would be offered to Prof Henry Drummond
the author of that most successful of recent
books, Natural Law in the Spiritual World. "
1t was feared that the General Assembly of
the church would offer some opposition to the
apparent innovation. 1t has since appeared that
the vote of the presbyteries was hfty-six in
favor of and fourteen against the proposed new
chair. The offer has been accepted, and the
science chair has been appointed, with Mr.
Drummond as professor
New York Advocate: Three hundred and fifty
Cinnamon were seated in the body of the Four
teenth street Presbyterian Church, not many
nights ago, and listened to a sermon in their own
dialect by the Rev Frederick Masters, a Wes-
leyan missionary from Canton. The Chinese con-
sul-genersl was present and addressed his
countrymen, euloeizing the Sunday schools and
urging his auditors to diligence and virtue and
to abstain from opium smoking and from drink
ing intoxicating liquors he expressed his joy
that SO many benevolent persons were engaged
in teaching his countrymen, and showed his ap-
probation of their work by subscribing $40 to the
Chinese Sunday school Union. No one who
looked upon that body of reverent, intelligent
Cinnamon, in their neat attire, would say these
are men that we must keep out of country
by a special law of exclusion
Land of freedom as it is and has long been,
Switzerland cannot be congratulated on the sat
isfactory condition of her laws relative to re
ligious liberty. The persecution of the Saliva
tionists is matter of recent history 1t now ap-
pears that, not contented with driving the Saliva
tionists out of the country, the authorities are
making themselves obnoxious by attacking all
who are suspected of having any sympathy with
them, and by interfering with prayer meetings,
temperance meetings, and all such. The peo-
pie in consequence, have been thoroughly
aroused, and League of Common Right has
been formed at Lausanne for the purpose of re-
moving all restrictions to the free exercise of
religion and securing to all citizens the free ex
ercise of their religion. The authorities have
already been approached on the subject and it
is believed that such changes will be made in the
laws that persecution for religions sake will be
impossible on Swiss territory.
The latest biographer of St Paul writes pic
turesquey In all history, he says there is not
a more startling illustration of the irony of hu-
man life than the scene of Paul at the bar of
Nero. On the judgmentseat clad in the impe-
rial purple, sat man who in bad world had
attained the eminence of being the very worst
and meanest being in it, stained with
every crime, the murderer of his own mother of
his wives, and of his best benefaetors man
whose whole being so stepped in every nam
able and unnamable vice that body and soul of
him were nothing but a compound of mud and
blood; and in the prisoners dock stood the best
man the world possessed his hair whitened with
labors for the good of men and the glory of God
The Trial ended; Paul was condemned, and de-
ivered over to the exeeutioner. He was led out