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

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There is no anodyne like trust, no tonic like
love, no food like prayer and promise.
The next Worlds Conference of the Evangeli-
cal Alliance will be held in August at Stockholm,
Sweden.
It is said that Miss Booth, marshal of the
Salvation Army, is about to marry a wealthy
American.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to
astronomy very stupid daughter Of a very wise
mother.-Voltaire.
The whole linen that robes the saint, the raj
ment meet for thy soul and approved of God, was
woven upon the cross.-Dr. Guthrie.
DR.. Joseph Parker speaks of the new aesthetic
views of religion as THE new balloon route to the
empty heavens of the obliterated gods"
Mr., Fl. W. Douglass. formerly connected with
the publishing interests Of The Methodist, is
now assistant publisher Of the Christian at
Work.
Surgeons John Ploughman's Talk" has sold
320,0 900 copies. It will sell always. His sermons
in pamphlet form sell regularly every week
2l000 copies.
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it
sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there
God has no end in view but to perfect His PEG
pies graces.-Dr. Guthrie.
The oldest prelate of the Church of England
is the Right Reverend Richard Durnford, Bishop
of Chichester. aged eighty-one; and the young
est. Bishop Wherefore, of Newcastle. on-Tyne,
aged forty-four.
Mrs. Treadway heard Edward Everett, "a
handsome young man of twenty" preach his
first sermon in Boston, He wore a large dia-
mond ring on one of his fingers, and preached
on, The fashion Of this world passeth away"
The list of the International Sunday-school
lessons for 1885 has been issued. The lessons in
the Old Testament are nearly the SANE as those
INST, III the books of Kings, with two lessons
from the book of Jonah, and three from Isaiah.
In accordance with a resolution passed at the
" General COOfpPpncp of the MRthOdist EnlSpOnal
Church last spring, all churches of that demon
ination in the United States are trying to pay off
their debts before the centennial anniversary
next May.
While attending the recent Louisiana confer
ence, Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Methodist
Church South, was presented with several beau
tiful presents. The Bishop, who has just passed
his eighty second birthday, has been a Metho-
dist preacher sixty years.
As reported to the recent convention, the total
sToll of the Church of the Disciples, or Christian
church, IN this country, is CSC, 900. They have
5000 churches and 3, 1000 preachers. The greatest
strength of the denomination is in Ohio, Indiana,
and other parts Of the West.
In 1888 the Congregationalists formed 1853
churches, ordained and installed 219 ministers,
and dismissed 10 pastors. Sixty-six ministers
died. Their average age was s~ixty-fve years
and four months. The whole number of churches
is stated to be 4,Ol6, a net gain of eighty; of
members, 395, 113, a gain of 1895; of ministers,
1884, against J, 723 last year.
Mrs. Joseph Cooke, of Boston, addressing the
Women's Board of Missions of the COngrega-
stional Church, recently, spoke of the lack of
eweIl educated female missionaries for India and
Ethe East. She found that the writings of Inger-
soil and other infidels are much read in some of
the large cities of India, and the missionaries
have to exert themselves to counteract their in
furious tendencies.
According to the Germania, generally a well
informed Catholic paper, certain new appoint
mpufS of some moment have bppn made nv fha
fPapal See to the foreign missions of the church.
Among these are certain arrangements with re
gard to Patagonia and Mongolia. The evangei-
cation of Patagonia has been intrusted to the
fathers of the society of St. Francis de Sales,
and the mission in Mongolia has been divided
into three apostolical vicariates.
On May 81 of the present year it will be 500
years since John Wycliff, the first of the great
English reformers, and his doctrines were con-
demned by the Synod of Divines assembled at
Grayfriars Priory, London. Arrangements are
being made in London for the proper celebration
Of the occasion, and the presumption is that the
day will be honored more or less all over the
Protestant world. Wyclif was born near Rich
mond, Yorkshire, about 1924; the exact date is
not known. He was the true father of the Ref
ormation.
A new feature will be introduced this season
into Joseph Cooks Boston Monday lectures.
Besides the preludes and lectures in the usual
fern, there VIII be irterludes, consisting of re-
plies to at least twelve questions each Monday
on topics of public Importance. The Transcript
remarks: Now that Rev. Joseph Cook is going
to diversity his fremont Temple entertainment
Eby answering questions sent him for solution,
1--WE shall probably settle the responsibility for
1.-THE wreck of the City of Columbus, the cause Of
red sunsets, and whether Fitz John Porter was
a traitor or not"
'Fifty years ago" said Earl Cairns, at a meet
,ing of the Church Missionary Society, 'if a man
chad been shipwrecked on some of the islands of
the Pacific, he would have been killed, cooked
and eaten; whereas, if a man were shipwrecked
there now, he would receive Christian hospital
ity. Miss Gordon Cumming, who is not a mis-
sionary, and who did not write for the purpose
of crying up missions, declared that while in
1885 the people of FIJI were cannibals, there
are now 400 churches and 400 schools there.
Lady Brassey writes that anybody who wants to
see the last traces of heathenism in Japan had
better go soon, as they are rapidly giving place
to Christianity
Those who remember the Millerite excitement
of a few years ago, the days that were fixed for
the final -consummation, and the ascension robes
that were made ready, can see how history re-
peats itself in the following literal extract from
a Looking glass for Sectaryes or True Nerves
from Neubery, being the Relation of the Neu-
sbery Anabaptists, whereof threewere to be car
ried into Heaven, but failed in their Iovrney,
which was published in London 238 years ago,
Up. y, VS.: 'She taught schole but put of all her
escOllers e. gave away all her worst cloathes be-
cause she void go to heaven clean & neat. The
time was fixed. A bright moon -shinynight. A flock
OF Geese flew over; but they ny away and leave
their sister and all her Geese, to learne more
wit."-Congregationalist.
Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Church South.
son Of a no less celebrated father, Lowe Pierce,
who was in the ministry until he was ninety-six
years Of age, is about to celebrate his golden
wedding. A CHEEKY, sensible old man is he.
Designing originally that the event should be
merely a family reunion, he soon discovered that
the good Methodists of Georgia and the whole re-
gion round about would not let it pass thus
quietly, and so he writes cordial, good humored
public letter in which he says: Bridal presents
were not in fashion when we were married, nor
do we expect them now. If, however, Florida
will send us a box Of oranges, Virginia a bucket
of oysters and Georgia will furnish me cigars,
$hen the other States and the rest of mankind
NAV do as LheZ nlnase-nnthina if thev lie