The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-02
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
religions Notes.

Cardinal Manning recently presided over one
Of the four great sections Of a temperance con-
gress in Liverpool, England.
For the last thirty-four years the Biblesoeieties
ofEngland and America have printed over ten
thousand copies for each business day.
e. E. Rees: Temptation in the line of duty,
God has provided for; but temptation sought
and coveted, God has made no provision for.
Spurgeon The serene, silent beauty of a
holy life is the most powerful influence IN the
world, next to the might of the spirit of God
No other book of the Bible is so much in de-
mand in India as that of Proverbs It's epi-
gramatic wisdom is highly appreciated by the
Hindoos.
Rev E. Y Buchanan, brother of the late
President James Buchanan, has been rector of
the Protestant Episcopal Church at Oxford, Pa,
for fifty years
Colonel R. G. Ingersoll has issued circular
an which be proposes to devote his energies Tor
the Future to the utter destruction OF the
Christian religion
The Lutheran Church of Finland is at present
without any bishop, all three prelates having
died within few months The first to be elected
viii be consecrated in Sweden
The Swedish government has appointed com
mittee to revise the Old Testament The re-
vised version Of the New Testament Is finished,
and is used in families and schools.
Pacific Methodist: To educate your children
in line and sympathy with the church Of which
you are a member is to perpetuate your faith IN
them. and to practice what you preach
The Irish Presbyterian missionaries IN India
and Major Tucker of the Salvation Army have
fallen out, and the Major is making charges that
he ought to be compelled to prove or quit the
country.
Sir FL Dayy: Life is made up, not of great
sacrifices duties, but of little things IN which
smiles and kindness and small obligations, given
habitually, are what win and preserve the heart
and secure comfort.
The Berlin society for the propagation Of
Christianity among the Jews has existed sixty
four years, and has been the instrument of
bringing 1000 of the children of Israel to the
knowledge of the Messiah.
The list Of vacant Congregational churches in
Illinois has been reduced from seventy to forty
within the past few months, owing to the large
number of men who have recently come from
other States and from England
The Old Testament company of revisers has
finished its labors The preface has been finally
revised and approved. AS the work has to be
submitted to convocation before its issue to the
public, it is not very likely to be published before
next Easter.
Rev. DR. W. H H. Adams, President of the
Illinois Wesleyan University, feeling the effect
of long continued overwork, has been compelled
to cancel the greater part of his summer engage
merts. He is now in Marquette Mich for rest
and reeuperation.
Bishop Ryle, of Liverpool, breaches in the
open air in the great shipouilding yard at the
noon intermission and among the IA 600 carriers,
with their wives and children, and the men of the
great freight stations, having oftentimes from
1000 to 5000 in one assembly.
The Oxford Press, which has special privileges
in the matter Of printing Bibles, it is claimed,
uses paper enough each year for Bibles alone to
form band nine inches wide around the earth;
and this is but one center of Bible printing. Add
to this the work of the other Bible printers and
publishers III Great Britain and the United
States. and we get an idea of the importance
which is still attached to that blessed book.
julius M. Millengn died few years since in
Constantinople, universally regretted. On ex-
cavating at Karak he had discovered an ancient
temple Of Jupiter and very old Byzantine in
scription within the arms of cross Light of
Christ, shine on all, = Let it be put on my
tombstone 1t had been buried more than a
thousand years in the Christianized temple Of
heathendom. The hight had shown through
heathenism, and temples of false gods were trans
formed into temples for the worship of the true
God. So this light shall shine through the
realm of science, and shall illumine tall the
works Of the worlds Creator"
The Methodist Episcopal Church South Is
about to send out large reinforcement to its
mission in China. Miss Laura Haygood, sister
Of the Rev Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, goes
10 take superintendency of all the wonnen's work
in. the mission including day and boarding
schools and the work of the Bible women. The
Rev. w. A Bonnell, president of Covington
College, is to organize high-school for boys
In The party will be nine children of Mr. Bon
nell and the Rev. Dr. Allen, the superintendent
OF the mission, who is now on the field. Several
other new missionaries are to 90 out making
altogether party Of seventeen
The Lutheran Church in France is not a
numerous body, 1t has only eighty-two pastors.
But it is q highly respectable body and infIueu-
tial III proportion to its numbers 1t has Just
been holding its synod at Montheliard The re-
ports submitted showed that while the church
could not boast of great progress, it was blavely
holding its own. Among the subjects discussed
was the need of new Bible in the French Ian
guage. The version Of Prof SECOND was highly
spoken of, but the feeling was general that an
entirely new version, one rejecting the highest
scholarship OF the day, and at the same time do
ing justice to the French language and to the
original text in Hebrew and Greek was needed
The revision of the English Bible seems at last
to be stirring up the French.
The London Tablet, the organ Of the Roman
Catholic Church, says: THE ordinary expenses
OF the Holy See may be put down at about
5000, 600 francs, and certain other expenses may
bring the total up to nearly 100000 Formerly
the Holy Father drew from the States of the
Church an annual civil list of 3,2l0,000 francs,
which was employed in the maintenance of his
court, of the cardinal residing in Curia, of the
personnel Of the PanciatHres, the various CON
gregations, etc. That is the reason why the
Italian government offered Plus TX the annual
state income Of 100000 francs Since the
seizure OF the Rapai States many other expenses
which formerly were met by other means have
been undertaken by the Pope's civil list. Leo
XIII, moreover, spends about SOC, 900 francs in
aims each year.
In the spring Of last year a General Evangei-
zeal Missionary Society was formed in Germany
A week or two ago its constituent assembly was
held at Weimar, and was attended by about 100
of the 200 members of which the society con-
Gists. The object Of the society is praiseworthy
but peculiar. It proposes to abandon the old
method of dealing with the vulgar and unedu-
Gated, and 70 direct to the cultured classes in
India, in China and in Japan. It proposes not
to substitute Christianity for Buddhism and
others, but to incorporate Christian truth with
what is true in these religions. Pastor Bass, of
Giarus, who seems to be the leading spirit of
the movement, thinks that the movement ought
to commend itself TO all classes Of the German