The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-27
Religious Notes.

Religious Notes
Turkish: All that thou givest thou wilt carry
with thee.
Geerge Mcdonald: IAnd the doing of the will
Of God leaves Inc no time for disputing about
His plans.
+. W. Faber Faith is letting down our nets
unto the untransparent deeps net knowing what
we shall take.
John Mason: The casting down of our spirits
IN true humility is but like throwing ball to
The ground, which makes it rebound the higher
toward heaven.
The Baptist preachers ard deacons in England
have been invited by the Total Abstinence Aseo-
ciation to preach Temperance sermon on the
last Sunday evening of January next
One permanent memorial of Moody and Sank
ey's recent work in London is new mission
hall erected at Wordsworth on the site of the
iron tabernacle in which they held their meet
$ngs.
The last Sunday of the year will be widely
d1nproved by pastors throughout Christendom in
eommemoration of John Wycliffe, the early
English refoimer, who died Just 500 years ago,
1n the last Sunday of 1894.
The beautiful memorial church erected in Ber
1n after the Emperor Williams two escapes
from assassination has passed into the control Of
board of trustees who are liberals, and OPP
posed to all the distinctive evangelical doctrines
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, will
preach twice next spring before the University
Of Cambridge, England All England will con
slider this high compliment to Mr.. Brooks, while
Boston will look upon it as an honor to the uni
yersity.
Mr.. Artheneton, of Leeds, England, has given
SIS 600 to the En- glsh Baptist Missionary Society
for the support of the new mission steamer,
Peace, which is to be devoted to mission work on
the Congo river. He has also given $40 900 to be
used for mission work in the region beyond Stan
ley Pool.
Christianity means to the merchant that he
ha - afh no
Should be just; to the servant that he should be
faithful; to the school boy that he should be dill
gent; to the street sweeper that he should sweep
clean to every worker that his work shall be
well done.
Rev. Phillips Brooks in temperance address
made lately M Boston, said: Never shall nay
band and voice be lifted againstse called temper
Ance fanatics. If ever a cause justified fanati-
eism the temperance cause does. To me there
IS nothing more disgusting or more dishearten-
kag to the cause of humanity than the selfish
ease-lOving, luxurious man indulging in dissipa
zion, and denouncing the temperance fanati
cism"
The Bishop of Melbourne. Australia. enter
1ains practical ideas about prayer A
number of people in his diocese recently asked
him to incorporate in the church service a petit
tion that rabbits should be smitten with sterility
10 which he replied that such petition would
be an insult to God And he added that if the
rabbits have become a pest it is because the
people have been too lazy to exterminate them,
End ire therefore advises his petitioners to go to
work on the rabbits themselves Some good
ehurchmen fear the Bishop is not sound in the
faith.
Mr. Joseph Cook addressed the Congregational
Club of San Francisco the other day. urging its
members, according to the report, to stand up
for orthodoxy so straight as to lean backward
denouncing the new movement in theology IN
sparingy, and declaring that the editors of the
three most prominent Congregational journals at
fhe East were so bigoted in their adherence to
the new movement that they would not allow
criticism of it to enter their columns Afterhe
stoRaed talking, the report continues, the club
pretty unanimously and emphatically expressed
fhe belief that his statements were not correct,
and one brother said they were ridiculous and
absurd in the extreme
The Rev Robert Clark in an able article in
Che Church Missionary Intelhgercer, on the Pun
fab mission of the Church Missionary Society,
says I'VE do not wish the Christians of the
Punjab to be merely number of isolated units,
bur strong compact church, Of which every
member should know his Office, and perform it,
with regard to the welfare of the whole body "
Our own missions 10 India and China will far
nish him good example of the compactness he
desires, and in China, at least some of the mis-
sionaries Of the Church of England have not
been slow to adopt Methodist arrangements that
are found hesptul in this direction. Phey have
shown wisdom in their action, and have reaped
great benefits from it.
Stockport one of the oldest and most inter
estng towns of Cheshire, England, among its
other attractions boasts of the largest and, it is
believed, the oldest Sunday -school in the world
Generations of Stockport people have come and
gone since this Sunday school became the famous
institution of the place and the envyof neighbor-
ing towns Wherever business or fate may carry
them they never forgot the Aersey, and the
twenty six arches. but they remember above all
things the Sunday-sehool. 1t is one of the few
institutions of the kind which is absolutely non
sectarian. 1t is sustained by all the churches
Connected with the institution are week day
classes with staff of competent teachers. From
the very commencement OF its existence it has
been boon to the place. Stockport has Just
completed the celebration of the centennial of
The foundation of the school amid much rejoicing
and festvity.