The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-08
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Notes,

"'There is no religion in the world" says the
Standard, chat puts such honor upon human
nature as Christianity"
The Hand book of the Methodist Church
South, shows that church schools in the South
number GS-male colleges, ID; female, Al; both
sexes, {.
It is not the American parson alone who tip
pies. The Bishop of London has suspended the
Rev H. F. Limpus. vicar of Twickenham, for
three years, for drunkenness.
The Italian government has ordered the re
moval of all c~ruciiXes and religious emblems
from the ships Of the royal navy, the only eX-
ception being the royal yachts,
native Christian in India, who had lately
been offered SOC rupees l$25, 600 by an aunt if
he would promise to give up Christianity, re-
piled, Il cannot sell my soul for money"
Contrary to the reform laws. a Jesuit college
has been opened in Monterey, Mexico. The Jes-
uits are gradually creeping into the country. 1t
is said they have a secret college in Merida.
The Jesults have purchased 1000 acres of land
near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. for Il school
and mission house to be used as the headquar-
tiers of the order for their work in Southern AT
RIGA.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing
House, Nashville, Tenn, reports lib, $50 com
municantS, l ,439 ministers, 81, 49, 24 in church
$ g5SRS5t'' "iS'i'""'S CONTRIBUTORS i'' 'H' year,
President Arthur finds time for his religious
duties as well as those of state, and the presi-
dental pew in st. Johns Church, Washington, is
only vacant at the Sunday services when he is
ont of the city.
1t is proposed to build in the diosese of Dur
ham, England, twenty-five new churches at a
cost of 81, 900, 900. At a recent meeting presided
over by the Marquis of Londonderry, 5000, 600
were subscribed.
Minnesota, where a Sunday school was first
established thirty seven years ago, has now
1,4A schools. with e, 1000 scholars and II, 900
teachers and officers. The net gain last year
was lis schools of 4, 600 scholars and 100 teachers.
Frederick Harrison. the Positivist, has an arti-
Gle in the Nineteenth Century on 1.-THE Ghost of
Religion" He declares that agnosticism is not
a religion, and that to introduce Positivist sert-
ices with sermons and hymns is sheer non
sense.
Ram Chandra Bose has been reelected a lay
delegate from the North India conference to the
general conference. He will not make the SEN
sation which he made at his first appearance,
but he will be as welcome, and doubtless even
more useful.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Nebraska has
notified the faithful of his vicariate that he will
grant no more dispensations for mixed marriages.
If any of his flock wish to marry persons of
other religious faith than ROmanists they must
make their application to Rome.
Mr.. Stanley, it appears, is working harmoni-
ously with the missionaries. His headquarters
on the Congo he has named Leopoldvile, after
the King of the Belgians. It is at the same cen
ter where the Livingstone Inland Mission and
the BaptlSG MISSION nave eSUdDISleu UnelF mead
quarters.
DR.. Brachelli. the Austrian director of statis-
tics, in his enumeration for 1883 of the faiths of
twenty-siX European States, with their aggregate
population of 329, $40, 320, classes 156, 400, coo as
Catholics, so. 1867, 600 as Greek Church, 70, 450, 600
Protestants, GAS, 600 Moslem, 1884, 900 Jews,
and Al, 900 as of no religion or Of minute sects.
The Sunday school children of America have,
by their small contributions, sent out three
missionary ships and are giving an average
amount If twenty-five cents each for a fourth
vessel to the Micronesian islands. OF the 49,
coo needed, $4,000 has been given, and the
builders at Bath, Me-, expect to have her ready
to sail from Boston by next November.
The English Baptists have within the limits of
the London postal districts 23I churches. ex-
elusive of mission halls, while in England and
Wales they have 2,476 churches, of which $40 are
in the principality. In Scotland there are %
churches and in Ireland %, giving a grand total
for the British isles of =. 593 churches, as against
2,573 in 1882, showing an increase of 20 during
the past year. The number of chapels is 3, 738,
and members 304, 500, being an increase of 13, SS4
on last year.
The hospital Saturday and Sunday collections,
in New York city, taken at the close of last year,
amounted, as reported, to $42 S03-some $50, 900
in excess of the collections of 1882. Of the ag-
gregate, 1927. 040 was contributed by churches of
the various denominations, Besides this amount
of $40, SOB. 69 reported, other sums are known to
have been sent direct to hospitals, but not re-
ported by the treasurers thereof. and it is be-
lieved that complete returns would place the ag-
gregato at fully 4 1900.
The latest revised statistics give the Roman
Catholic population of the United States as s.
e62S. l6 this year, against 6.396. S54 last year.
There are Is archbishops. 81 bishops, 6,S35
priests, 1,65l ecclesiastical students, 6,613
churches, $50 chapels, LAG stations, % &C.
clesiastical seminaries, 81 colleges, 500 acade-
mics, 2,532 parOchial schools, 481, 834 pupils
attending the parochial schools, 24 asylums and
139 hospitals. These figures show an increase
of 289 priests, PIT ecclesiastical students, 372,
churches, 6 colleges, 20 academies, Al parochial
schools and 10 asylums, but a decrease of 8
ecclesiastical seminaries.
DIR. Brassy, the recently elected Primate of
Australia, sustained a serious loss by the found
ering of the Simla in the English channel. By
that vessel he had sent on in advance all his
manuscripts and note books, together with a
valuable library of some thousand volumes. To
a certain extent the loss is irreparable: but the
Dean of Westminster has made an appeal to the
many friends of the liberal minded and exempla-
ry prelate to give expression to their sympathy
''by presenting him with some works of interest
and value in addition to such as can be provided
by the very moderate amount to which he will
be entitled by his Insurance."
The translation of the recently discovered in
-%scTiption of NebuchadneZzar the Great has Just
Ebeen completed. Among other things it de
scribes the restoration of the famous Temple of
Belus, which was made bright as the beauty of
d, heaven with gold, silver and precious stones.
The roof of the house Of the oracle was of
tcedar wood, plated with gold. The king records
ffhe restoration of many other public buildings and
sacred edifces, and among others the Tower of
Borsippa, known as the Tower of Babel. In
concluding the inscription the King INNER
lhis pious works to the keeping of "Merodach,
King of Heaven and Earth, and prays him to
sgrant him long life, fullness of glory and a wide
spread dominion.
American M~onsignors.
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