The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-14
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
religious Notes.

were III attendance TOUR lnQlan ministers anC
one ruling elder
The First Baptist Church of Norwich. Conn,
has new scheme for raising its church debt. 1t
proposes to organize committee of fifty who
shall pledge themselves to pay $40 per annum, In
Eemi annual installments Of SO, until the s., 00O
now due is paid up.
The Calcutta Christian Tract and Book So
ciety, at their annual meeting in December last,
reported circulation of nearly 600. 600 religious
books and tracts. Speeches were made, and the
immediate need of Christian books in native
languages was emphasized.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said, in a re
cent address, that. while scientists were great
stickfers for revealed knowledge or proven facts
only, they were forever prophesying the end OF
She Church He begged them, therefore, to be
consistent, and prophesy only what they had
found out
Pastor Leconte of the Breton mission. has
concluded the translation of the whole OF the
Scriptures into the Breton tongue. This is the
first Protestant version of the Scriptures III
Brittany The New Testament has been out
about year, and the Trinitarian Bible Society
is about to carry the Old Testament through the
press.
United Presbyterian: 1t is sometimes said of
men that they have no further ambitions. J"
The remark may mean, OF course, that
they have reached point in some good
cause beyond which they cannot hope to
GO and in that sense it is right enough, but no
one can properly permit his ambitions TO die
away. There is '.mark' before him that 1t ID
his duty 10 strive to gain.
A curious action is about to be tried in Dublin
A Munster lady seeks to recover $l5, ZOO from a
Rohan Gatl,nlie nri-at e1,' Using to administer
The sacrament to her. There be no doubt
that the arbitrary action af the clergy IN such
matters has done great wrong to individuals, out
the state has very wisely refralned from inter
ferng Church discipline would cease If 1t ran
The risk Of legal penalties.
In 1878 DR.. S. II. Tying who had been rector
of St Georges Church, New York, for many
years. retired on account of advanced age, at
which time the officials entered into contract
10 pay him annual pension of So, 600, the pay
ments to be quarterly. The church refused to
pay the 81 $50 due Feb l. and Dr.. Tying brought
suit to recover the amount. The defendant con-
fessed judgment for the amount with costs.
The Living Church protestant Episcopal) in
an editorial on the recent lectures Of Rev. Heber
Newton says: Are we to understand That
school of Unitarians is rising into conscious
power in numbers and influence among US, and
that intends to remain inside the pale and renew
The old Arian strife? If this is so, say: Cen
Aemen uumask your guns Come out honestly
and say what is your purpose! lis this what the
unfurled flag of individualism' meansP
Zion's Herald The Christian is not mere
excursionist, but traveller on a lifelong jour
ney. Yet in times of revival many overlook
this fact, and instead of starting with pur
pose fixed as thoughtful determination can
make it, to accept religion as a life work. they
attach themselves to the church with a resolu
ton fiimsy as a spiders Web with such careless
calculation of the cost, that at the first sharp
temptation or gilded allurement, they fail back
INTO their former habits
Joseph Cook: Turn telescope on star, and
at the instant when the instrument has reached
the right position the light flashes through the
tube and produces an image of the star in the
dark chambers of the telescope. just so, when
fhe human will yields to God there flashes
through the human spirit the light from the orb
Of heaven and there is found within us the star
ola seEse of forgiveness, a star which the Bible
itself calls the day STAR and unto which, as it
AYERS, we do well to give heed.
The Indian Witness says: Eight hundred and
ninety seven Bengal girls, out of ], l67 Ill
the twenty schools of the Doremus American
zenana MISSION were gathered in the compound
Of Mrs Pages orphanage recently, for the annu-
al distribution of prizes. 1t was the finest gath
ering that has ever been seen in India in the in
terest of female education. A large number of
Europeans Americans and natives were present.
and the Home Secretary of the Indian govern
ment presided and made hne speech
The Free Church of Scotland, which has
very noble origin and very worthy history,
has from the very first been somewhat puritanic
IN its tendencies. In the large centers of popu-
ation these tendencies have been held very
much in check but in the more rural districts,
church has looked with severe eve on what to
many are innocent amusemeEts. Dancing. it
would seem. has become more common of late
years in the north and the Presbytery of Aber-
deem. by twenty three votes to twelve approved
the report of its committee on religion and
morals condemning dancing and similar evils. !"
The students in the Martin Institute in Frank
furt Germany, held meetings in two stations
near that city with great success. They hired
dancing hall and invited the people to come,
seeking them on the streets or in their houses.
In one place from 800 to 500 people gathered to
hear the gospel. During the Christmas holidays
they went out to help the regular preachers,
walking from two to twenty miles day to their
appointments These students are given solid
Biblical education, according to the wants of the
German people. and this evangelical work is
great inspiration to them to labor among the
neglected masses in tho cities and villages The
Lord is raising up grand men for Germany
Charity has very properly from the very be-
ginning been regarded the principal adorn-
ment of Christianity, Certain it is that in these
agnostic times none of its outcomes put it so
much in harmony with the character of its Di-
vine founder In our great cities this feature
of Christian social life is, as is natural enough
most strongly marked The total income for
4he London charities for 1884 was about ca 500
600. OF this sum about f2 600 900 were coit-
tributed TO church and chapel building funds
missionary tract. Bible and book societies.
Commenting upon this amount the London
revenue of the Swiss confederation, greater
than that OF Sweden and Denmark, and nearly
as much as Portugal, Belgium and the Neither
lands
1t is we'll known to students of the later writ
ers on geology and Bible teaching that the
Duke of Argyll was one of those who could not
make up his mind on the subject of the deluge.
His mind-as he himself said in one of his
works about twenty years ago--was In "a state of
suspense. In lecture recently delivered in
Glasgow, and since published, he confesses a
change of mind, and holds that the Mosaic ac-
count is not only consistent with all the known
facts OF science, but accounts for certain phe-
nomena otherwise unexplained. The cataclys-
mic results from such an event were he thinks.
essentially superficial and transitory.' the
traces being chiefly perceptble in the distribu
tion of gravels. sand and the mud clay known
as brick earth" He yindicates his new position
by referring 10 the presence of gravel on some
of the highest points in Europe. and the pres
ence of animal reinains-especially mammoth
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