The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-06

Army IN England contemplates the formation OF
salvation navy. Three war vessels are TO pc
purchased. 1t is suggested that Mr. Booth will
be admiral as well as general when his navy is
under way.
The Baptists of England are endeaEoring to
raise their voluntary annuity fund to tIU0, OU6
The object is to provide aged and retiring pas
tors with a small yearly income, About one
hundred persons are now receiving the benefits
of the fund
The London Methodist Recorder gives an out
line of a sermon preached by the lord mayor of
London at the re0pening of the Brunswick Yves
leyan Chapel His lordship's text was Acts xgl
81; Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved"
Here is q specimen Of the hymns they used to
sing in New England in the good old days
Ye monsters Of the bubbling deep,
Your Makers name upraise;
Up from the sands We eodlngs, peep
And swag your tails always.
AS the centennial birthday of Sir Moses Mon
tefope, the eminent Jewish phlanthropist, ap
proaches, our Hebrew friends are making
preparations for its celebration. That SO mobile
life should be so long preserved to HESS his
people is 10 matter Of general congratulation.
ii is stated as an illustration of the power Of
special pray ef offered for the Moravian vessels
that for 120 years a ship has annually left Eng
land for the Moravian mission in the arctic re-
gions Of this continent and that not "a single
ship or passenger has been lost by storm, leo
berg or wreck.
Last year the women of the United States
gave $500 OO9 toward Gh1istianizing the heather
OF this large SUM Presbyterian women gave
tienal women, 100000; Northern Methodist
women, $l0S00a; and Southern Methodist
women over $25, 900.
The oldest Clergyman in the Church of Eng
land is believed to be Richard Moore, vicar of
Landin2t the Fylde Lancashire On recent
n. IIn
was ordained in 1916, and his health is stin good
He is also the senior justice in Lancashire, hay
ing been appointed by the crown in 1920.
At a party IN Coahuila Mexico, the Governor
CT the State invited an American young lady to
dance, She declined, as her religious conyic
with the mission there of The Southern Baptist
hoard. 1t led to the Governors acquaintance
with the mission and since to a gift to 1t from
him of property valued at $l4O, GOO
Trinity Church, Evansville. Ind.s is under
going fhonough repairs, as one of the results OF
the Harrison revival there Among the i'm
provements is a gallery around the entire au-
dience room, built on plans prepared by Mr. L.
S. Clarke architect This will add to the beauty
of the room and wild improve Its acoustic quail
tiles. The cost OF the improvements will amount
TO about SO, 000
One of the many interesting works of beneyo-
hence in behalf of the poor of london is that
presented by the Prison Mission, of which the
Duchess of Feck is patron, where nearly 200
children of parents who are serving sentences IN
The prison are being trained. This mission is in
the form of a little village each house having a
mother" in charge. On every weekday morn
ing breakfast is given to the discharged women
from the prison.
sThe jews" says the American Israelite,
possess no authorized English version of the
Bikle.@ 1t is of the opinion that the new revised
version viii be an improvement on the King
James version. hat far from perfect 4t,ealls at
fention too to the fact that while the American
Bible society publishes q Hebrew Bible, with
the books arranged according TO the Massefah,
the Jewish order, ia the English edition it fol
lows the order Of the VHlgate or Septuagint
Self-Tighteonaness is not only q danger to be
avoided by such as possess, like Bishop Butler.
great abilities He who has but the one talent,
in giving all to Christ may also be tenpted to
ask, What shah have thereforp Says Ben
gel The werkman's little is as much his all as
the princes much Self righteousness may
prove an evil as great in the one case as in the
other. Whether we are able to do much or little,
God requires all. And after all is SURRENDERED,
there Is but one principle that holds good for
every one-that of salvation by grace alone.
In walking on a Christian errand through
woodland path a Sunday or two since, children's
voices. led BY 2 womans clear soprano, turned
DIS aside. Upon bench Of rock, beneath 4
spreading hemlock, were five children gathered
from summer homes by Sunday school teacher
s
songs the recitations Of Scripture the study Of
the lesson the recital of the creed the memor-
jzing Of the Catechism. The spirit of Christian
worker will find work anywhere. Such never
esk, What is there for me to DOR The picture
Of the woodland Sunday school was as pretty as
It was inspiring
The Established Church Of England has
about eighty churches and congregations
in northern Europe, of which the Bishop
Of London has the oversight Those
IL southern Europe and in the islands Of
the Mediterranean are more than seventy in pum-
Der, and are under the supervision of the Bishop
of Gibraltar. The needs of English travellers,
who have Increased a hundred fold, have greatly
increased the number of churches, and under
ths latter bishop ter ere now i process Ct con
Moscow, while there are three of these churches
within the walls of Rome.
At one of the periodical regiFals held in Gnya-
huga county, Ohio, BY the United Brethren, an
old German lady became SO enthusiastic and
yolnbIe in prayer, one evening that the English
language was not equal to the emergency SO
she fell back on the mother tongue While no
one doubted her orthodoxy, the prayer was al
lowed to close without . response. Finally the
painful silence which followed was broken by an
was proyerbial who arose from seat in the
back part Of the house and said in a drawing,
sanctimonious tone: stWhiIe didn't understand
word the good sister said Ill say amen at .
yeptRre, Lord
There are some persons who think II much
easier to bury sin than TO repent of it But ft
Is very hard thing to hide 4 Sin Il IS like hid-
ing seed or root in the ground It draws
strength Ia its concealnent aud finally push
ing Up through Che sod brings forth fruit thirty,
sixty and 2 hundred fold. Sin is not dead
enough to be safely buried. IT is like smolder-
ing flame. 1t Is like a poisonous seed; it win
work ruin in its concealment and finally break
out into open ungpdliness, and destroy on every