The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-30
Religious Notes.

There are co. 900 jews in New York, and not
one Of them is engaged in liquor selling.
The organist of Trinity Church, New York,
gets So. 800 a year. Grace Church pays its or
ganist $500.
The Pacific mail steamer sailing from San
Francisco Sept 2 will carry thirteen mission
aries for China
Rev. DR.. H. M. Storrs, Of Orange, N. j., is to
give the next Lyman Beecher course of lectures
before the Yale Divinity School.
John Wanamaker's Bethany Sunday school at
Philadelphia has been in existence for twenty
five years. 1t now numbers z, 200.
Father Hyacinthe, who lately returned to
Paris from America, has sent in his resignation
rs pastor Of the StGallican Church. in Paris.
The largest ministerial salary in the Irish
Presbyterian Church is that of the Rosemary
street congregation, Belfast amounting to
81, zoo.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Parker, the preacher in the
London City Temple, is now in this country, &C
companied by his wife. He will return early in
September.
While there were last year about seven con
verts to each of the preachers in the United
States, there were seventy converts to each Of
the missionaries in Asia.
Hugh Miller said: Prayer is so mighty an
Instrument that no one ever thoroughly mas
tered all its keys They sweep along the infinite
scale of mans wants and of Gods goodness"
fG60rg6," asked the teacher or a sunday
school class, who, above all others shall you
wish to see when you get to heavenW With q
face Frightening up with anticipation, the little
fellow shouted, 'tGerliah!"
Instead of erecting a monument to his mem
DRY, the friends of the late Rev. John S. Inskip
intend to erect a stone church in the place of the
old Methodist Westinghouse where he was con
verified over fifty years ago.
There has been a decrease in the number of
Baptist churches in England, but the number of
Bcholarsin Baptist Sunday-schools has increased
by about 100, 600. It's total number of scholars
now is 4S7, 1S7 against 303, 802 church members.
The New York Advocate says: 'sRev. W. G.
Webb received D. D. from the Iowa Wesleyan
University at the late commencement. DIR.
Webb is closing his three years pastorate at
Grace Church, Philadelphia, with great success. !"
America has an army of 2,236 missionaries in
the field, and spends over S., 900, 900 annually in
the work. To collect and distribute this money
requires less than z per cent Of it. Ninety
three cents out of every dollar reaches the mis-
sion field. 1t costs 1892 to make a heather con-
vert
The Baptists Of Italy have united under the
name of THE Christian Apostolic Baptist Union
of Italy Rev. James Wall, of the English
Baptists, is president. Evangelizing commit
tees Lave been formed, a paper is so be pub
lished, and a hymn and tune-book Immediately
prepared.
A monument is to be erected to the late DR..
MOfatt, the African missionary, in his native
village of Ormiston, near IranenI, in East
Lothian. The obelisk, which is to be of red
granite and twenty feet in height, will be fur
nished with a bronze relief of the features of the
eminent missionary.
The Century: A city that t~olerates such Sun
days as those Of Cincinnati; that opens it's thea
tiers, and its dance-houses, and its liquor-shops,
and bids its people to carouse and dissipate on
this day of rest-will have always its streets full
Of . multitude, restless, turbulent, ready to be
stirred up to all sorts of demoniac enterprises.
And when the whirlwind is reaped, it will be
easy to tell how and when the seed was sown.
The Rev. w. Cornforth, Wesleyan minister of
Nottingham, England, has just resignedhis posi-
ton, because he cannot pledge himself to a
definite and positive belief in the absolutely
endless suffering of the unsaved.a He considers
that the Scriptures do not bind him to such a
belief, while the Wesleyan theological standards
Dc. There can be no doubt" says the London
Truth, that many ministers would follow Mr..
Cornforth's example We're they equally bold and
honest
Chicago Advance: The Moravian Church,
still true to its glorious history, goes forward
like q color-bearer into the line Of peril, to open
q new work in Alaska. In response to an ap-
peal from Rev. DR.. Sheldon jackson, at a mis-
Bionary meeting at the Moravian Church in
Bethlehem, Pa, the entire graduating class of
the Theological Seminary gave themselves to
the work. One of them has already gone out
with a missionary from Canada to explore the
country.
Dr.. Davis, writing from Japan, says: Zone
OF the largest Buddhist temples in the city has a
school Of several hundred young priests con-
nected with 1T, and the priests have recently
bought one hundred and twenty copies of the
New Testament and some commentaries. and
have put the school at work studying the Bible
every day, What will come of it do not know,
but the priest who bought the books told the
bookseller that they were bound to see what
Christianity was: and if it was better than Buddh-
ism, they were going to adopt it,
The Congregationalist learns that out of $50
churches of that denomination in Massachusetts
from which it has reports, 163 have responsive
reading in some form in the Sunday service. In
100 the congregation joins with the minister in
the repetition of the Lords Prayer, and IS have
chanting in some form, most frequently the
Gloria Patri Most of the pastors express them
selves pleased with the changes introduced into
the old order OF service, and report that their
congregations are also pleased, and join heartily
IN the responsive and other common acts Of
worship.
The notions of the South Africans Of the en-
trance of sin into the world is embodied in the
following legend: Ihlangue 1.-THE sCreatorl sent
the chameleon to men to tell them that they
should live, or be immortal; but the lizard, over
hearing the message, came first, and pretended
that what the Creator had said was that
they should die. By and by the chameleon
came. and did as he was hidden; but the listen
Drs condemned his statement as false, and now
appeal to experience in contradiction of it. Thus
the pagan natives throw stones at every lizard
Heyssee; but they stone the chameleon, too, ex-
planning. .'Thou lazy fool, why didst thou let
Ehe lizardzget before theefg
The Rev Dr.. Washington GLADDEN. presents
the folly Of the unnecessary multiplication of
feeble church organizations in rural towns. He
gives a number Of instances from one section.
In Turner's Falls there is an American popula-
tlon OF about 900, with six Protestant churches.
and the Episcopalians holding services in addi,
ton, with a view of building another church.
The congregations average upon a pleasant Sab
bath about sixty hearers. Across the river in
Bernardstown are $50 inhabitants, with FIVE Prot
estant churches and an attendance that would
average to each, church only about seventy wor-
Slippers. Seven miles west of Bernardstown is
Coleraine, having five places of worship. The
adjoining town Of Charlemont is a hamlet Of
$500 I've L,~noc u<s&l &1~oo Hall ~-~-~l..-I