The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
READING FOR THE SABBATH
Religious Notes.

Monks and nuns are forbidden to reside in
France in communities, and religious instruction
is prohibited in the state schools.
David Londing, a grandson Of King Caulker,
of one of the African tribes. is a student in Day
ton, o., under the care Of the United Brethren
Missionary Board.
The Rev. c. E. Butler says that, according to
the very latest advices, Bishop Riley, of Mexico,
has not resigned, but continues to exercise su-
preme control there.
Bishop Hooper: Many of the Psalms begin
mournfully and end triumphantly. to show us
the prevailing power of devotion and convince
us of the certain return of prayer.
An excursion to the Giants Causeway is a part
of the programme of the Belfast Pan-Presbyte-
rian Council, which will convene the oath of
next June, and continue until July 3.
Southern Methodism has more than doubled
itself in Texas within the past thirteen years.
The membership of the whole church has in
creased from 400, 900 to 900, 600 since 1870.
Charles Kingsley: Nothing is more expensive
than penuriousness; nothing more anxious than
carelessness, and every duty which is hidden to
wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
The house in Orleans, France, in which John
Calvin lived when he was a law student, and in
which he received the visits of Theodore dc Beze
and the librarian Leurez, has been pulled down
recently.
Rose Potter: We must not wait for the great
opportunities. If God sees we are fit for great
service He will send it to US; and unless we have
first learned to do the little, how can we beready
to do the greatl
Mrs. Emma Molloy is conducting missionary
work among the Cherokees in the Indian Terri
tory. She has the cooperation of Chief D. w.
Bushyhead and others of the council. Her meet
ings have been very successful.
When God would educate a man he compels
him to learn bitter lessons. He send him to
school to the necessities rather than to tie
graees, that by knowing all sufferings he may
know also the eternal consultations.
Nearly eight hundred churches have burned in
this country in the last nine years: one-fifth of
the fires were incendiary, half as many from
lightning and careless ~ianitors. and bad heating
apparatus made up a large part Of the rest.
The government of Natal, South Africa, has
granted a beautiful tract of land, about 3,400
acres, to a society in England that proposes to
establish a Christian settlement on it on prlnci-
pies similar to those adopted by the Moravians.
The Congregationalist sees little hope for
France in Pefe Hyaeinthes movement 1t is an
unappreciable influence in religious affairs. The
- schools of the McAl mission furnish a far bet
ter ground for hopefulness in regard to the
evangeization of France.
The American minister at the Porte. General
Lewis Wallace. is commencing himself to Chris
tan people for his bold defense of the rights of
our American missionaries. He has interposed
also in behalf of the Armenian Patriarch, and
with a good degree of success.
Dean Stanley: You never get to the end of
Christs words. There is something always be-
hind. They pass into proverbs; they pass into
law; they pass into doctrines; they pass into
consultations; but they never pass away, and after
all the use that is made of them they are still not
exhausted.
p. w. Robertson: Out of the soil in which de-
ciduous leaves are buried, the young tree shoots
vigorously, and strikes its roots deep down into
the realms of decay and death. Upon the life of
the vegetable world the myriad forms of higher
life sustain themselves-stil the same law, the
sacrifice of life for life.
There is need of prayer similar to that made
by an old colored woman who, praying for one
who had been guilty of SANDER, said: 80, Lord,
won't YOU be kind enough to take the door of his
mouth off, and when you put it on again, just
hang it on the gospel hinges of peace on earth
and good will to menl" Amen.
The Berlin correspondence the London Times
says the Salvation Army is about to invade Ger
many. He says: "How the commander and
captains of this incursive host will fare it is
not difficult to predict. They will most as
suredly be laughed out of the country, and in
all probability laid by the heels"
DR.. Brachelli, who has for years past paid
great attention to religious statistics; has just
published his figures for the year 1883. Accord
ing to the Doctor, twenty six states make up the
divisions of Europe. They show a population of
329,S16,3 800. OF these SO per cent. is classed as
Christian, and only 3 per cent. as non-C Christian.
South Carolina is one of the banner States of
the Baptists. The white Baptists alone have
669 churches in the State, with 81, 663 members
Thlrty-four of the churches have preaching
every Sunday; seven have preaching on three
Sundays in every month; 1873 on two every
month; and the remainder, AIS, on only one Sun
day a month.
The Rev. D. J. Mcmillan, superintendent of
the Presbyterian mission work in Utah, tells
some distressing stories of his experience during
a nine-years' residence among the Mormons. He
declares That people who go there to investigate
Mor1nonism never see its worst and most i'm
.portant features: that the civil and political
power Of the institution is increasing, and that
between 600 and 5000 new converts are gained
each year.
Two prominent clergymen of the Church II of
England have just resigned their positions in
that communion and gone over to the Roman
Church. One of these is the Rev. George Ben
son Tatum, NJ. A, of Christ Church, Oxford,
chaplain of Magdalen and late curate of st.
Pauls, Oxford. He was received at the Birm-
ingham Oratory. The other is the Rev. Richard
James Dyne Cooley, B. A., of Emanuel College,
Cambridge, and late curate of st. Johns, Bath
wick, Bath. These secessions have both been
the cause of very considerable excitement in the
circles in which the reverend gentlemen were
best known.
A few months ago Mr.. Samuel Morley. the
Christian philanthropist, offered a sum of money
for the purpose of establishing mission halls in
the neglected districts of London, the mission
work to be conducted under the auspices of the
London Congregational Union The scheme has
been heartily gone into, and already three of
these halls are in active operation. They are
situated in Old Gravel lane, White Chapel:
Queen street, Ratcliff, and Golfers Rents,
Southwark. The mission work is making en-
couraging progress, and should the experiment
be found to be successful, halls will be secured
and opened for mission work in other and equally
necessitous centers of poverty, ignorance, and
vice.
The custom of foot-binding is still common in
China. 1t is no longer allowed at imperial head
quarters, but it still prevails extensively among
the people. The missionaries have hitherto found
it necessary or e~xpedient to wink at the custom.
1t is believed, however, that vigorous and united
action an the part of the missionaries would
soon make ar end of the cruel practice. Such is
the conclusion arrived at by the English Church
Missionary Society, and the society agents have
already taken action in the matter. No girls are