The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
Religious Notes.

Though Horatius Bonar is one of the greatest
of living hymn writers, until a few Sundays only
Psalms were sung in his church
There are nearly one thousand Romanist con-
verts in the Protestant churches OF Rome, as the
result of ten years mission work.
Archdeacon Farral has nearly completed 'The
Gospel According to 81. Luke" which he is edit
ing for "rhe Cambridge Press Greek Testament
Series"
In the Methodist Protestant Church, the pas
toral limit is five years, and the proposition is
now under discussion to remove the limit alto
eether
Seventy five million dollars is contributed an
nualy in the United States for sustaining the
churches and the ministry, and $3l, 600 600 more
for purely benevolent purposes
Bishop Coke, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, thinks the time has come for a general
union Of Christian denominations for organized
resistance to the entertainments of materialism
and unbelief.
The largest Protestant cathedral in the world
is that at Ulm, Germany When completed it
will be sumOunted by the highest spire in eX-
istence. The building is the finest piece of
Gothic architecture in Germany.
The Rev. George B. Cutler, whose anti-di-
vOrce sermon to his people in Hebron, Conn,
caused so much excitement because of its sup
posed application to one of his Pensioners, has
rendered his resignation to take effect April l.
A survey has just been made in the interest of
the Palestine canal syndicate, and the engineer
regards it as not improbable that within a few
years the cry of Low bridget" will be heard
from the gulf of Allaba to the valley of the Jor-
dan.
During January the Fulton-street noon prayer
meetings We're attended by 3, 1913 individuals.
Letters asking for spiritual advice and prayer
were received from $50, and number of con-
versions have resulted from attendance at the
meetings.
The week of prayer in Japan was full Of in
1prpSt and npOtit The native bTStiaOS decided
to continue the meetings for another week, to
pray for the especial outpouring of the Holy
Spirit upon the churches The wonderful
ligious revival does not seem to abate in Japan.
The Pope is greatly interested in the subject
of ecclesiastical education. He is anxious that
special attention should be paid to physical
science, with view to confounding such men
as Tyndall, Huxley, and Herbert Spencer when
ever their teachings are i'll conflict with reYela-
ton.
There is a school in Sweden in which young
men are trained with special view to home mis-
sions. Several Of the men who have been trained
there have been laboIing for some time among
the Laplanders, of whom there is said to be g.
600 in the most northern part Of Norway, Sweden
and Russia.
Laura Bridgman, the blind pupil. was being
instructed one day. when she spelled out on the
fingers of her instructor this sentence, What is
the soulF In the same mute language he re
piled, THE soul is that that thinks, and hopes
and fears, when she Immediately replied, YES
and aches sou
In South Carolina the weekly penny contribu-
tons in the Methodist churches are often paid in
eggs. In one of the Western towns the same
currency is the means of largely increasing the
missionary donations This has been named the
Hen Mission. 1t is not unusual to collect hat
full of eggs at a service
The will of Mrs. l.. S. Vought, of Freehold, n
j., gives $21, 900 TO the Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. OF this sum $40, 600 is to be used for
the foreign mission work, $4,000 for mission
work among the colored people Of the South, and
81, 900 among the Indians.
The primitive Methodists, like the Wesleyans,
have made great progress in London within
twenty years. In 1868 there We're fourteen min
listers, now forty five, with a membership of g.
1870 instead of GAS and during that period sixty
seven chapels and schools have been erected by
the aid of the Metropolitan building fund.
In Salt Lake City the Congregationalists have
d self-supporting church of $50 members and
the Presbyterians and Methodists each nearly
as large. There are also eighty Sunday schools,
with f. 100 scholars, well eightysiX Chris
tian day schools with 40 teachers and nearly
5000 pupils Salt Lake has eight churches and
Ogden five.
Mr.. Bradlaughs brother is as pious a Christian
as he is the reverse. He began a mission at
Exeter the other day. and in the course of his
opening address said he had complete faith in
the ultimate conversion of his brother. and
would not be surprised to receive at any moment
intelligence that the great infidel had come over
TO the Lord
A Utica gentleman relates that he once asked
Theodore Parker, who was dining with him.
question concerning Wendell Phillipss ortho-
doxy, and Dir Parker replied: Il do not care to
say that he believes or rejects the five points
but l will say that he practices one of them-the
perseverance of the saints-which is much better
than a belief in the other four
%, scholar, striving late and rising early
Fen now, trow
The little child who died ere dawn this morning
Knows more than thou.
It is not death that's darkness dread unfathomed;
Life is the mystery.
o, student to all problems past thy solving
Death holds the key.
The CONGREGATIONAL Year Book for 1884 con
tains some very interesting items OF the whole
number of members, 1916, 246, no less than over
81, 600 are classed as absentees. The number of
additions to the church during the year was o.,
377 the losses by death. dismission and discip-
line were 1882 There are 4,0lG churches of
which 941 are vacant; 936 churches have settled
pastors, 2 l49 acting pastors. There are 3, 1876
ministers, of whom :, G59 are serving as pastors.
Quite recently three Christian Cinnamon pre-
scented the King of Corea with a copy of the New
Testament. The king in great perplexity.
TO refuse it would offend the Chinese. To ac-
cept and keep it would make trouble among lis
own people. The difficulty was all the greater
that in Corea presents made to the king cannot
be concealed, and it is the custom to put them
on exhibition. The case it is understood, still
engages the attention of his minister's to whom
it was submitted.
The Missionary review states that fifty Ameri-
can denominations numbering l15.436 ministers
and 10 2S6 331 members, contributed last year
for foreign missions $3,086, 5S7 p, being triAe
less than 80 cents each This is a gain over the
preceding year of $50, 900. There was in the
same year a gain in home membership of 128-
389 Over :, 200 foreign missionaries are sus-
tanned, and 8,678 native helpers. The member
ship in the mission churches is DID,, 9O6-a gain
during the year of IA, 440.
The use of the episcopal wigs has entirely gone
out in England Sumner, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, was the last to wear one. He died in 1862
James Monk, the handsome Bishop of Glouces
ter, wore one until his death, in 1856. Bishop
Bloomfield, Of London, wore one for great part