The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

Church of Virginia was laid at Richmond,
April 5
Religious Telescope: We 60 through life
sut once. Let every day show good record.
Soon the Judgment will set
lions Herald Every man wishes to be happy
those coveted gifts are the fruits Of righteous
ness.
st. Chrysostom: AS King is honored in his
image, so God is loved and hated in man. He
cannot hate man who loves God: nor can he
who hates God love man.
George Eliot: 1t is good to be unselfsh and
generous; but don't carry that too far. 1t will
not do to give yourself to be melted down for the
benefit of the tallow trade; you must know
where to find yourself
Bishop Hall: Satan always rocks tho cradle
when we sleep at our devotions. If we would
prevail with t4od we must wrestle ana II we
would wrestle happily with God, wewust wrestie
first with our own dizziness.
Gods largest promises are not for those who
have tile largest ambitions but for those who
have the largest faithfulness. There is nope,
therefore for the poorest and the weakest IL
does not require genius to practice fidelity.
A minister who will let the people see by his
manner, words, or acts that he does not think
the place 'sgood enough for him" is, of all men,
most foolish. He ternpts the people to say that
it is too good for him" and act accordingly.
A somewhat singular scholarship has been es
tablished in the University of Berlin. 1t is open
to all students of theology, and is awarded only
on condition that they 60 as missionaries to the
East Indies or accept professorship at the
European missionary schools in Calcutta or
Madras
Jean Ingelow She has an incurable habit o
looking at things from the passive point of viewf
She never says, II have not understood such and.
sueh people, but always, "They do not under
stand me;r she never considers, when things oc-
cur. what share she may have had in causing
them to occur.
Archbishop Tillotson: Our religion sets be-
fore u.s. not the example of a stupid stole who
had by obstinate principles hardened himself
against all sense of pain beyond the common
measures of humanity, but an example of a man
like ourselves, that had tender sense of the
least suffering, yet patiently endured the great
est.
The popes, as the parochial clergy of the Bull
garian Church are called, have struck for back
pay due them since 1883. They have closed all
the churches, and refuse to perform any relig-
ious ceremony The government cannot pay
them, because the people have refused to pay the
special tax out of which their stipends are usu-
ally paid.
The famous Mazarn or Gutenberg, Bible is
to be reproduced in England by means OF pho
to-lithography. w. E. A. Axon will contribute
to the work a statement of the history and
photography of this Bible, and of the circum-
stances in which it was printed. The copy in
the possession of the Earl of Crawford and Bal
cares has been obtained as guide.
The Moravian: The search after truth is
lofty occupation. But often useless one. For
truth is never dscernible save by the spirit of
truth that dwels within the soul. 1t is never
revealed through the outer senses to the soul,
but through the soul to the senses. 1t is known
only by a spiritual sympathy, communion be-
tween the truthful heart within and the heart of
truth without
For your own sakes train your children for
Christ God has intrusted them to you as a
precious talent; you have consecrated them to
Him and vowed to train them for His service.
How will you stand in the Judgment if you have
received child in trust from God and are train
ing it tor the Notwithstanding Gods child for the
world sacrificing one of Christs little ones to
the devil, fitting Gods child for perdition2
Cardinal Manning, who has given some
thought to the temperance question, says 1T
Is mere moekery to ask rs to put down drunken
uess by moral and religious meane, when the
legislature facilitates tho multiplication of the
indictments to intemperance on every side. You
might as well call upon me- as the captain of a
sinking ship, and say, Why don't you pump
the water outP when you are Scuttling the ship
in every direction
Thirty -one missionaries of the Company of
Jesus have departed recently from France for
the missions of Egypt Armenia and Syria.
Four have gone to Alexandria, six to Cairo, six
teen to Beyrout one to saba, one to Beckfaia,
one to Chair, one to Adama, one to CBsarea.
one to Amasa and one to Siwas. Five mission
aries of the Order of Minor Observantins have
been sent by the Sacred Congregation of the
Propaganda to the tribe of the Danakils on the
Red sea-
Prof Drummond in his well-known book,
Natural Law in the Spiritual World, remarks:
'sFheRe are accidents in which the victims feel
no pan they are we'll and strong. they think.
But they are dying; and if yon ask the surgeon
by their side what makes him give this verdict
he will say that it is this numbness over the
frame which tells how some of the parts have
lost already the very capacity for life" Alas! do
we not meet with similar cases in the spiritual
ephere-men whose hearts have become so hard
ened that nothing seems to influence them, and
who die as they have liveds
Emerson: Are there not women who FIJI our
vase with wine and roses to the brirn. so that
The wine runs over and fills the house with per-
fume; who inspire us with courtesy; who unloose
our tongues. and we speak; who annoint our
eyes and we see2 We say things we never
thought to have said; for once, walls of habit
ual reserve vanished and left us at large; we
were children playing with children in wide
field of flowers Steep u.s. we cried. in these in-
huences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be
sunny poets. and will write out in many -colored
words the romance that you are
What mystery is Lowell We can not define it;
we can only indicate it by describing the occa-
sion on which it arises in the soul. If human
love is inexplicanle, Divine love is an ocean too
deep for the plummet of man or archangel; too
broad to be bounded BY the thought of the lofti-
est intelligence in the universe. He who knows
not in his inmost consciousness the love of God,
will find this book sealed to his understanding.
It can only be unlocked by the key of expert
enee Love is not product of the reason. 1t
is the free play of the spiritual sensibilities in
the possession of its object God is not only
love, but he is love revealed
The Boston Congregationalist says: "More
than half of the population of the city of Mil
waukee are Germans. Not one half of these
have any connection whatever with any Chris
tan church in the city If some form of Chris
tian missions be not needed there, where are
missions needed? If it be not possible to open a
Sunday school and originate church in such
community, how can the same thing be practic-
able in Japanl And if such vast portions of the
populations in large cities continue to be