The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-05
RELIGIOUS Notes.

Browning.
If you would not fall into sin, do not sit by
the door of mptation.-EXchange
During the past five years $50 Lutheran
churches have been built in the United States
EsIt is said that there are Buddhists enough in
Paris to demand a temple, and that temple will
be built for them.
The thing which must be must be for the best;
God helps to do duty and not shrink,
'''0 Owen Meredith
The Life of Bishop Kavanaugh, by his own
request, is in the course of preparation by DIR.
A. H Bedford, and will soon be ready for the
printers.
The German law requires that Sunday schools
must be called ''divine services for children"
This could hardly be applied to some schools In
this country.
Drs. Morley Punshon and Gervase Smith, both
expresidents of the Wesleyan conference have
been honored with memorial busts in City Road
Chapel London.
A prayer from the ancient fathers: Lord,
pardon what have been, sanctlfy what am,
and order what 1 shall be, that thine may be the
glory, and mine the eternal salvation"
The Baptist church at Salt Lake City, for
which the Rev. Dwight Spencer raised contrl-
buttons during his stay in the East about year
ago, has been built paid for and dedicated.
The site of Tothir Field prison has been
handed over to Cardinal Manning and steps are
being taken for the immediate erection thereon
Some of the ladies of the Protestant Episcopal
Church have established in South Baltimore
nursery or ''creche," for the children of colored
women who are absent from their homes daily
at work.
Father Boniface pastor of the italian church
in Boston has received as gift front Pope Leo
a fine cameo portrait Of his Holiness, and will
place it on exhibition at fair to be held for the
benefit of the church
The Congregational ministers of Chicago have
formally resolved at their regular meeting that
in no case will they marry divorced person, I'M
less the divorce has been procured for the cause
sanctioned by Scripture.
According to latest news from Persia a new
sect has sprung up there. Its members are
called Baabys and they profess religion which
is a curious amalgamation of Christianity, Mo
hammedanism and Pantheism.
expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that can do, or any
kindness can show. to any fellow human being
let me do it now Let me not defer nor neglect
it. for l shall not pass this way again. -Stephen
Grellet
No less than 2 104 persons joined the Evangel-
ical Church in Germany in 1888, against ,9O4 in
the year before Most of these were Roman
Catholics while 904 people left the Evangelical
Church for other communions. OF the Jews
136 accepted baptism, while Is Evangelical
Christians joined the Jews
The bronze statue of William Tyndale which
is to be set upon the Thames Embankment in
feet high, and will rest a stone pedestal eight
feet high. The pedestal will bear the names of
sixteen counties, towns, universities and so
cieties which have each contributed $500 to the
funds for the work.
7 Dean Stanley was favorite pupil of DR.. Ar
mold and the author of the life of Arnold, one of
the most charming biographies in the language.
His name is revered by every old Rugby lad.
That his memory may ever be associated with
the place, a full length recumbent etfigy Of the
late dean, executed in white MARBLE has been
placed in a canopied recess in the north wall of
the chapel of Rugby School
st. Louis Advocate: 1t is probable that Mr..
Cooks chief objection to the work Of the com
mission is that he had part in it. for his pre-
lude" on this subject is without particle of
critical merit and, still worse, his insnuations
in regard to the commission and their method of
working unworthy of fairmiuded man.
He probably drew upon his imagination for his
facts-which is one of his weaknesses.
A diagram in the Christian Union places the
amount of money spent annually in the United
States for home and foreign missions at S., 500,
000 while that spent for public education is $780,,
600, 900; sugar and moasses. $3.50, 600 000 boots
and shoes, $l95, 900, 000 cotton goods $2l0, 000,
900; sawed lumber, 1898 900 000 wooden goods,
$237, 900 900; iron ana steel 1890 000 000 meat,
S303 600 900; bread, $505, 900, 900, and liquor,
5000 600 00O-nearly twice the sum paid for
bread
How to lead the life divine, surrounded by
Temptations from within and from without; how
to breathe freely the atmosphere of heaven
while the feet vet touch earth; how to lead the
life of Christ, who shrank from no scene of try
ing duty, and took the temptations of mans life
they came; or how even to lead the ordinary
sanity life, winning experience from fall, and
permanent strength out of momentary weakness
and victory out of defeat-this is the problem.
r w. Robertson.
At the recent session Of the Church Extension
Board Of the NJ E. Church South, held at Louis
Vile forty two churches were given aid, $20,S 15
= 8
Total outright and contingent appropriation
$40, 975, which will be increased during the year
to over $4,000 These loans to bear no in
terest; the smaller ones are for one and two
years, the larger two three four, five and some
six years 1t is stated that with the aid of about
$4l 000 the various churches will build houses
exceeding in value quarter of million of dol
lars
The American Hebrew protests against making
Good Friday legal holiday, on the ground that
it interferes with the liberty of all religions
guaranteed by the constitution, and says 'Ea-
gerness for the conServation of our religious lib
critics protests against establishing Good Friday
as a legal holiday, lnasnuch as such step
would be a potent recognition of one form of re
ligion as in some sense superior to others. Good
Friday is recognized as a sacred day by the Cath
Ollie and evangelical churches. To all other
than these churches it is a depreciation that a
sectarian holiday is constituted day to be OBJ
served by those who do not recognize its sacred
ness"
Robertson Smith presents striking example
of the change which has taken place in public
sentiment in regard to heresy and the sentence
of the church regarding the same. Deprived of
his chair in the Free College of Aberdeen, he
became Immediately the idol of the people, and
his lectures in Edinburgh and Glasgow were at
tended by admiring and delighted crowds A
chair was found for him at one of the great En-
glish universities where he might proclaim I'M
questioned his so-called heretical views about
Scripture Now, according to the Christian
Leader, the liberal students at the universities