The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19


Sweden.
The Montreal Presbyterian Women's Mission
airy society has petitioned the Queen to prohibit
infant marriages in India.
If we recall the rare hours when we encoun-
tered the best persons, we then found ourselves,
and then first society seemed to exist.-Ener-
son.
Forty years ago there were but five Presbyte
rian churches in Baltimore, now there are TWEEN
ty-six Twelve Of them have been supplied with
nanses.
The Congregationalists have erected 1913 new
churches during the past year; thirty-one are in
Dakota. This is an increase Of ffty-three over
the previous year.
While this country is struggling to loosen the
bonds of Sunday observance the countries of
Europe are trying to tighten them from human
itarian rather than religious motives.
There are about 90 goo Friends in this country
and 392 meeting houses. The Quaker Church at
Baileyville, Me-, will shortly have bell, which
will be the first ever used by the Friends in
America.
The Boston Congregationalist says: "The sta
tstics for the year book for 1884 are so far com
pleted that we are able to give the following
figures Churches 4,0l6 members 395, l13 min
isters 3, 795."
DR. McFerrn is slowly recovering, but is still
not able to do much work. The Nashville Chris
tan Advocate says the indications are that he
will fully recover ere long and be ready for
every good word and work.
When a mans finger is not like those of other
people, he knows to feel dissatisfied; but if his
mind is not like that of other people, he does not
know to feel dissatisfied. This is called igno
rance of the relative Importance of things.
Hindu,
prayed: 80 Lord bless the Established Church,
and the Free Church, and the United Presley
terrain Church, and all the other churehes-thou
knowest the various nieknames Lord, by which
~, l1ad a,Ilfr
Chill has secularized the cemeteries, and the
Catholic bishops have declared them deseerated,
and have forbidden their priests to conduct bur
ial services in them The republic, in turn, for
bids Catholics to bury in private cemeteries
where communal cemeteries exist.
According to the Christian Observer, in thir-
teen synods of the Presbyterian Church in the
South there are 2,040 churches, l2S ministers
without charges, and 492 churches vacant. In
the Virginia synod out of every 100 churches, 20
are vacant; in the Memphis synod, out of every
1G0 churches, A are vacant Of every 100 or
dained ministers, II are not preaching officially
i. e.. as pastors, etc.
"A converted actress by the name of Nelson,
and native of Norway, is said to be attracting
great attention in Sweden by reading sermons
and speaking in Methodist chapels and public
halls. She began by reading Mr.. Moody's ser
mons, and being an excellent reader she soon
commanded large and attentive audiences Ae
cording to the public prints of the country she is
doing an excellent work
Canon Carmichael is to be offered Bishop Bald
wins later charge-Christ Church Cathedral,
Montreal-and it is thought that he will accept;
and if So according TO The Living Church, the
Rev. Mr. Rainsford, Of St Georges, New York
city will be invited to take his present parish.
An effort was made to secure Canon Carmichael
for Calvary Church. New York CITY, before the
present rector, the Rev. Mr. Saterlee,
called
Quoting from an Italian paper a local journal
says that in Rome there 1S0,357 inhabitants.
Besides the Pope and his cardinals there are:
Bishops, 81; priests, 1888; monks 2,4o4; friars,
1872; nuns 200 deacons $50 Total 9193
Under this blessed fraternity, by the government
statistics of 1870 up to which time the papal
government supreme, nearly one hundred
and twenty thousand of the inhabitants could
neither read nor write.
It is said that Mr. Spurgeon was written to by
frisnd in New York to substitute Florida for
the south Of France when he found it again need
full to leave London in search of rest and health,
and give his friends in this country the benefit of
a visit from him. His answer came a few DAYS
since in wheh'he says: Il am better but weary.
I go TO Mentone soon. America would kill me
with kindness ! cannot run that risk. 1t would
depress me greatly to be had in honor. Abuse
] can bear, hut kindness shows me my own I'M
worthiness and sends my heart into my shoes"
The annual summary of British contributions
TO foreign missions, Just completed by Canon
Scott Robertson, and printed in the January
number of the Churchman, shows that for the
vious year by f1G0,000. They are as fellows:
Church of England societies, f500 306 Joint So
eieties of Churehmen and Nonconformsts, f154-
S13 English and Welsh Nonconformists e34S
l75 Scottish and Irish Presbyterian societies.
9I76. 1852, and Roman Catholic societies. ell 5l9
fetal voluntary contributions in the British isl
ands for the year 1882, Fl, l9l, 1915, 600 600.
Canon Liddon, of st. Pauls, London, is thus
described by Prof. William Mathews in the B9s-
ton Waterman: You see little in his face or
IN hI1Gh of,a
ton the indefnable thrill of emotion that seems
to pervade the dense throng of hearers. He is,
apparently, man of about ffty-six years of
age of middle statue, with short gray hair
pale, smooth-shaven face, and-what are per
haps his most marked physiognomcal traits
keen eyes and tirml yecmpressed mouth. There
is something monastic in his appearance, and
one of his admirers has noted resemblance in
his face to that of st. Augustine in AIRY Schef-
fers noted picture of that saint and Monica"
The American missionaries in Egypt have
been warned by the authorities of danger from
the hostility of the Cepts Those sent from the
United Presbyterian headquarters in Philadel-
phia are: Rev. John Hogg, ID. D.. Rev. j. Il. Al
exander Rev. John Giffen, Mrs NJ. z. Giffen
and Misses NJ. J. McKown and E. e. Newin.
The other missionaries from the same organiza
ton in Egypt are as follows AT Cairo, Rev.
Cuban Lansing D. D.: Rev. Andrew Watson,
d. D., and Misses Eliza F. Johnston, Maggie A.
Smith, A. y. Thompson, and H. M. Conner. AT
Alexandria, Rev S. G. Ewing and Miss Mary A.
Frazier At Mamsoorah, Rev. A. NJ Nichol
and Miss Isabella Strong. At Fayoum, Rev
William Harvey. There is mission training
college at Stout, which is attended by over two
hundred students, mostly Egyptians, who are
educated for missionary work among their ma
tive tribes. There is also training school for
young Egyptian girls.
In Sunday -sehools in the Oudh district, North
India conference, there has been great in
crease during the year just closed. There are l65
schools, containing almost 1000 scholars These
schools are found in connection with nine mis-
sion stations Seetapore leads the list with 40
schools, Lucknow has 30, Roy Bareilly %, and
of scholars-L910 Seetapore comes next, with
LABS, and Cawnpore third, with / lib scholars.
Among these 1900 Sunday school scholars there
are 669 Christians the remaining 6 900 and over
are Hindoos and Mohamedans. This work has