The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-27
ReIigious Notes.

Religious Notes.
Love is better than doctrine, yet false doctrine
will always destroy pure love.
A writer in the Methodist England calls for
a Methodist mission to Palestine.
There are twenty ministers sons among the
members of the Cincinnati Conference
The qualities we possess never make us SO
ridiculous as those we pretend to have.
According to the current Presbyterian Year
book, the membership in the Church North and
South is TAG, 900.
see no discretion and no grace which is need
ed IN wider social intercourse that is not required
by those of home.
Fourteen Presbyterian Churches in India,
during the last ecclesiastical year, had 2S7 add
tons on confession of faith.
OF all the anguish in the world, there is moth
ing like this-the sense of God without the sense
of nearness to him. Elizabeth Prentiss.
Bishop Simpsons old residence at Greencastle,
Ind when he was president of Asbury Uniyer-
sity, is now the property of DePauw Uniyer-
sity.
According to the latest statistics the Irish
Presbyterian Church has $40 ministers, 553 con
gregations, 40 licentiates, and lO1, 452 communi-
cants.
Miss Louise S. Baker has been ordained pas
tor Of the First Congregational Church Of Nan
tucket The society is Orthodox Congrega-
tional
No true woman, married or single. can be
happy without some sort of domestic life; with
out having somebody's happiness dependent on
her. Harriet Martineau.
The Old Catholic Church in Switzerland has
bishop, DR. Herzog, fifty clergy and over 50 600
adherents. The same body in Germany has a
bishop, DR. Reinken, forty-fye clergy and
nearly SO, 900 adherents.
The emigration of the Jews to the holy land
is increasing 1t is only a few years since the
number of Jewish families who had returned to
die there was comparatively small. To-day
there are over $4,000 in Jerusalem alone.
A beautiful Methodist chapel is now ia pro-
cess of erection in Kaiserlautern, Germany, the
very spot where Barbara Heck's ancestors lived
Tor many generations, and from which they
were driven by prosecuting French army
The gross income of the Society for the Propa
cation of the Gospel in England last year was
$547 $50. There are on the society's list $40 or
dained missionaries l,4D0 catechists and lay
teachers, and 800 students in the society's
colleges.
A few miles from Tacoma in Washington Ter
ritory, is the Puyallup reservation, where there
is civilized agricultural Indian community
with well-organized schools and churches, one
church with Indian elders and deacons and a
membership of 300
A meeting was held in Marburg, in Germany
Aug. 10, 20 and 81. to form confederation Of
the various reformed churches of the empire
These have million and half Of adherents
gathered in some eight hundred congregations:
but they have no bond Of union save in the
Heidelberg Catechism.
1t is always choice of masters to which
Christ is urging men. It is not by striking off
all allegiance but by finding your true Lord
and serving Him with complete submission,
that you can escape from slavery. Then give
yourself to Him completely Let Him mark you
as His by whatever marks He will Phillips
Brooks.
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Mr. Moody has been invited to come TO Cincin-
matt for consultation with ministers and laymen
who are interested in the proposed evangelistic
work in the city. Drs Joyce and Richie are the
committee on correspondence. They expect
letter from Mr.. Moody in few days. The con
sultatien will determine whether Mr.. Moody
will come to Cincinnati to hold revival services.
The Rev DR. J. M Tritnble, of the Ohio Con
ference, was in attendance at the Cincinnati Con-
ference, and on being introduced by Bishop Mer
ril stated, says the Western Christian Aavo-
cate: 81 licensed your bishop TO preach, and In
troduced him into the conference, and may say
/ have had him under my wing ever since.
helped make him editor and helped make him
bishop
The Christian World says Of the deternii1a-
! ton Of the Salvation Army leaders to have
their strange public professions in defiance of
public opinion and the advice of the police au-
thorities: 'afhe endeavor to turn the world up
side down by neediessly exciting its prejudices,
and apparently glorying in doing so, may sue
ceed but It viii do little, it seems to us towards
turning the world the right side up
A correspondent of the Christian World, re-
porting reception of the new bishop of Ripon.
DIR Boyd Carpenter says: THE bishop himself
seemed to be about The smallest man in the pro
cession and one of the youngest. He is, we be-
lieve, but little over forty The ser
mon was delivered without note, and with great
freedom and force Of style and 1t was listened
to by the vast congregation with breathless
silence. 1t is evident that the diocese Of Ripon
has obtained a great accession of preaching
power in its new bishop"
The new rector of Grace Church, New York, the
Rev, VIM. r.. Huntington, D. d.. has assumed his
| duties, after a preliminary rest in Europe Of
| several months. He has been minister for
| twenty years, has written number of theologi-
cal works, and has served as chairman Of the
committee on the revision of the Prayer book,
"A portrait and sketch of DR. Huntington ap-
peared in Harper's Weekly for December % Of
last year, about the time of his election to his
present position az successor TO Assistant Bishop
| Henry Q. Potter who has long been his personal
friend, and at whose instance his name was first
suggested to the vestry Of Grace Church
An Autumn Picture.
Bin Arp, In Atlanta Constitution
Our little chaps are gathering the popcorn
| now, and the red ears and the yellow ollas and