The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
RELIGIOUS Notes.

The population of Berlin increases at the rate
OF 600 annually and yet only one new church
was erected in that city last year.
M. Pelagand, who made a scientific trip
through Syria, says there can scarcely be found
village in Syria where there Is not osotest-
ant school,
"A Consciousness of sin. writes the Rev. VIM.
George, of Zeegong, Burmah, is rarely found
In Burman. When it is found the man is
easily led to the Savior,
Central Baptist: The restoring into an i'm
nortal.sou the moral image of its Maker, con-
yerting it from the power of Satan unto Goo, Is
the grandest work in which any human being can
be engaged.
Friends Review: There is existing type of
looking glass religion which loses time in con
templating its own accompl shments, which
sime might be better spent in doing the nc,xt
thing in earnest, self-forgetful service"
The bishops have appointed tn ,,o, ~ 1ohn
Miley, d: d., and the Hor :, B. Foraker frater-
nal delegates to the General Conference of the
Ec-. :. episcopal Church, South. and Bishop
-ss and the Rev. Albert S. Hunt, ID. D., fra
ternal delegates to the British Wesleyan Confer
ence.
The PRESBYTERIAN Church in far-off New Zea-
land has attained to respectable proportions 1t
has 1Cl churches, "a ministers in charge 24
elders, 82l managers, 629S communicates, 1877
Sabbath schools, 1.039 teachers, 1898 Bible
scholars Inc NUMBER OF preaching places ID
90, with an attendance OF z. 699.
We must not stumble into the error of sup
pressing all religious emotion because some men
who are unworthy shout in meeting. 1t is hardly
possible to dwell on the mountain all the while,
and yet that is a meagre and pitiable Christian
life which never ascends the mountain at all,
and never had any glimpse of the TRANSPORTED
Lord.
One question discussed at tire late missionary
conference in Osaka, Japan was whether il is
better that missionaries should be sent out mar
ried or single. Not only was the sentiment &C.
sidedly in favor of their being. married. but sta
tistics from one society showed that the term OF
service for single men was five years shorter
than that of the married.
Japanese Friends Of the Bible" is the title of
society which numbers l, 800 members, each of
whom is pledged ito read a portion of the Script
ures daily" The title in Japanese is Nippon
Seisho Notomo.r In Japan English is fast be-
coming what French is in England-an accom-
plishment of the educated, and the Bible is be
ing studied by many of the Japanese.
An extensive revival has been in progress in
the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, such as
was never before known in the history of the
Syrian mission. Twenty Of the undergraduates
h the regular course have resolved to serve the
Lord. There is also deep religious. interest in
In the female training school, DR.. Jessop says
that forty stood up one evening witnessing for
Christ. This is good news and an event of i'm
portance to Syria
The territory of Russian Siberia, one and
halt times as large as the United States, has be
longed to Russia for three centuries, yet of the
four million inhabitants nearly one half are still
pagans. Paganism is fostered by the home gov
eminent The pagan priests are allowed to col
lsct and burn the copies OF the Bible with which
the missionaries supply the converts. and n'
missionary may baptize without the authority o.
fhe pagan civil authorities. who are allowed *
do almost anything to drive Christianity from
the country.
The following words of Englands great Prim,
Minister, Mr. Gladstone, are so full of truth tina
they deserve to be posted in every Sunday
school: believe me. the essence of true re
tieious teaching is that the teacher should be
lieve that which he teaches and should be de
Ivering as he believes 1t the whole message o
ruth Unless there is that sympathetic. tha
magnetic feeling established between children
and teachers that the teacher is dealing honestl,
with them. the public will, believe that the re
Z hgious teaching Is asham."
humorist says that nothing will break up
camp meeting quicker than hornet in goo'
working order. Last Thursday, q meeting o
the board OF trustees of church at Bloom
9eld. N. j. broken up by swarm Of bee
chat had come in through An open window an
we're disposed to vent their spleen on the mem
bcrs. Before the party could get out severa
were stung They adjourned to the church, AM
the sexton tried TO get the bees out, but wa
= routed In the night they departed. There is
however, something worse than hornets or bee
IN any church-that Is a tale bearing woman o
bitter, back-biting man.