The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-01
Religious Notes.

Dwight L. Moody has been seriously i'll at
Newport and is by no means we'll yet.
The Southern Methodist Church is responsible
for Rev Sam Jones and his utterances.
Rev. Thomas Harrison will begin revival
meetings at kpon, Wis, about the first of Sep
TENDER.
canvass made under the auspices of Ale
gheny churches shows that Is per cent Of the
residents of Allegheny, Pa, attend church.
The Tenth Congress of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the United States will be held in
New Haven Conn, commencing on Tuesday
Oct 90
AY. NJ. C. A. has recently been established in
Madrid, Spain, where the temptations to young
men are numerous and powerful, and where
there Is no Sabbath.
It ia very probable that the Protestant bishop
ric of Jerusalem. which established con-
Jointly by Prussia and England in 1884, will be
discontinued entirely
Mr.. d. T.. Moody announces that the third
annual conference for Bible study will be held
ut Northfeld, from Aug. D to To- Mr. Sankey
will conduct the musical services.
Two daughters of King Mtesa of Africa have
recently been baptized and received into the
Mission Church at Uganda, and are busy giving
religious instruction to others.
ST. David's Hall, Scranton, Pa. the headquar
ters of the Salvation Army, was burned July To-
1t was built about five years ago by the Odd
During the last twenty-fiv years sixty five
new Methodist chapels have been built in Lon
don at cost of So, 000,0 900, and the number of
ministers has increased from fifty to l15.
The native pastor at Lagos West Africa,
ports as a result of a recent spiritual revival in
his large Yoruba congregation. that not less
than 436 persons have confessed conversion.
God does not make haste He is patient, and
sometimes seems to us to be obllvious to the
wrongs and woes of the world. Taking the ages
together, however, God smites the wrong and
crowns the right. Let us live in hope.
Tholuck: The reason why we find so many dark
places in the Bible is, for the most part because
there many dark places in our hearts. 1t
belongs to the nature OF this book that it was
written for all men Of every time, and for all
Che experiences of each single human heart.
As result Of the recent revival in Nashville,
Tenn, several liquor dealers closed their shops
and Joined the church. An owner of steamboat
line on Cumberland river has closed the bars on
Ill his boats, and headed subscription to erect
q building for the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation with 81, 600.
Maj. John Smith, an eminent English local
preacher, is to represent the English Wesleyan
Methodist Mutual Aid Local Preachers Associa-
ton at the next session of the National Associa-
ton of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episco-
PAL Church, which meets in Brooklyn, E. d.,
n Y. on the last Saturday of September, 1885.
Ruskin: How often it is difficult to be wisely
charitable to do good without multiplying the
sources of evil. To give aims is nothing lest you
give thought also 1t is written, not blessed is the
that feedeth the poor" but blessed is he that
considereth the poor" A little thought and a
little kindness are often worth more than great
deal of money.
A Buddhist temple, burnt twenty years ago,
Is being rebuilt in Kioto, Japan. 1t is of most
expensive wood, and will cost over So 000 000
More than ton of large ropes, made of their
own hair, contributed by the women of Japan,
will be used to haul the timbers of the temple
70 their places. This temple is to be Mecca for
che faithful all over the empire.