The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-24
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
religious Notes.

Il. Fuller: When worthy men quarrel, only
one of them may be faulty at the first; hut. If
strife continue long, commonly both become
guilty.
Ruskin: No man has ever lived p right life
who has not been chastened by O womans love,
strengthened by her courage and guided by her
discretion.
q. Macdonald: All impatience of monotony,
all WEAKNESS of best things even, are but signs
of the eternity of our nature, the broken human
fashions of the divine everlastingness.
DR. James w. Alexander: II have found
nothing vet which requires more courage and In
dependence than to rise little. decidedly ABOVE
the par Of the religious world around me-"
Pittsburg Christian Advocate ST. Paul had
three wishes, and they were an about Christ
found in Christ, and that he might magnify
Christ
Lutheran Observer: To carry with US the
thought Of God in every employment and enter
tainment of the day-this is to walk with Cog
In reading, in studying in working with We
hands in walks and drives, to keep fresh the
thought and presence of God is to bring the d.
vine into our lives.
One of the favorite schemes Of the late DR..
Guthrie, Of Edinburgh, was the creation OF a
fund for the erection of q parsonage In every
parish of Scotland. Dr. William NJ. Taylor, of
this city, has recently been successfully devoting
some of his time and eloquence to the collection
of money for providing every missionary of the
Congregational Church in the distant West with
home for himself and family.
When the celebrated bishop Selwyn, who Ia
bored for thirty years among the natives of New
Zealand, visited this country some years ago. he
STATED at public meeting that he had never found
a heather man so degraded as not to respond to
the purifying influences of the Gospel but that
on the contrary, as soon as the grace OF Christ
touched his heart and awakened his stunt erlng
conscience, he rose gradually but surely in the
scale of being.
The relative growth Of the population during
the last century and three quarters under
Greek, Roman Catholic and Protestant govern
ments, exhibits singular phase. In 100 the
80 100000 and 80, 600 600. In 1876 they had be-
come &C. 10l 1884, 1884, 7S7, 905 and 408, 569 612. 1t
is seen by these figures that Professionalism is
rapidly outstrippipg both the Greek and the
Roman Catholic Church.
Under the pastoral charge of the Rev. DR..
Paret lately elected Bishop of Maryland, the(P
+. Church of the Epiphany, Washington, was
kept open daily from ga NJ to shutdown as aplace of
rest and worship for wayfarers- Dr. Paret estab
lshed this custom as the outcome of a converse
ton with Mr.. Beverley Tucker, in which the
latter said to him: I'm Mexico was particularly
gratifed to find churches open all day and every
day, where person of whatever creed OF faith
might enter for private devotion Here II my
soul wishes hospitality of that kind, must hunt
up Catholic church. no matter how inconve-
nient or remote"
Reference has already been made to the fact
that the Weigh house Chapel of which the late
Rev. Thomas Binnie was long a distinguished
minister and which, from its central position in
the city as well as from the celebrity OF the man
who filed its pulpit, was we'll known to all Wis
itors to the British metropolis, has been sacri-
feed to what is known as city improvements
Its removal was felt by many to be kind OF
sacrilege. The organ was one OF the finest In
London and the pulpit was one of the most
cfafr Roth ha va
The organ has been purchased for the use OF the
Beekenham Church. and the pulpit has been re-
erected in the church in Finsbury Park.
From Odessa comes piece of news which re-
minds one Of the hateful prosecutions OF the
Middle Ages. certain Anthony Preegon, a
member Of the Bible-reading sect known as
Stundists was charged with having expressed,
in public address, opinions rejecting upon
image worship, as practiced In the Russian
Church. He was brought to trial before the
Criminal Court at Odessa. The trial was held
with closed doors. The jury was composed for
the most part of ignorant peasants. Witnesses
swore that Preegon never used the words i'm
puted to him. He was, nevertheless, found
guilty, and sentenced to Imprisonment for three
years and nine months with loss of his personal
rights. How broad is the distinction between
American and Russian liberty!
For some time past the English Presbyterian
Church has been considerably exercised on the
subject of their creed as expressed in the his
toric Confession Of Faith Two separate re-
ports of synodieal committee, which were sent
to the presbyteries have been reported upon
Three presbYteries Berwick, Carlisle and Lon
don-have approved of the proposed change
which would substitute in this subscription the
words 1.-The system of doctrine contained in the
Confession of Faith" for the present wording,
sThe doctrine of the Confession of Faith" Six
presby teriss-B Bristol, Darlington, Liverpool
Manchester, Newcastle and Northumberland
have resolved that it isinexpedient to pronounce
an opinion on the change of formula until the
whole recommendations OF the committee are
before the Church
The movement in favor of disestablishment in
England, which begins to assume somewhat
serious character, has begotten counter move
ment, which has for it's object the preservation
of the Anglican establishment This counter
movement is called Church Comprehension. +"
Prominent among the advocates of Church Com
Drehension is Mr. Thomas Hughes Tom Brown J,
well-known Broad Churchman Mr. Hughes
would widen the portals of the Church OF Eng
land, so as to receive all dissenters. Mr..
Hughes's suggestion has called forth many re-
plies from individuals and from the press. The
Echo says: IF Mr.. Thomas Hughes were able
to open the doors of the national church widely
as he pleased, the people whom he wished to in
clgde would still remain outside. The advocates
of disestahlishment have to do, not with the
ideal church of Mr.. Hughes, but with the actual
church which exats it's mitered front among
princes, and which has by its own acts separated
nalI the relslouS llie VI lue AluSuoM lroin III
self"
The London correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury referring to the incident mentioned by
Canon Liddon in recent sermon, of Sir Robert
Peel leaving table at which the Christian re-
ligion was reviled, says: 'Ihe incident occurred
at the table of a son of a peer now himself a
member Of the House of Lords. There was
young man present whose ribaldry reached q
height which nowadays would not for an instant
be tolerated under any respectable roof Sil
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the bell and call his carriage, for it was too early
in the evening for his carriage to eethere; he
left the room. His host, rising and following
him into the hall, asked him if he
were ill., NO. replied Sir Robert, 'but
/ cannot sit any longer and hear that
young mans conversation" Come back
and / will stop him" said the host mo,
rejoined Sir Robert decidedly, "Icannot sit in an
atmosphere polluted by that young. mans pres
ence" And he departed in an ordinary cab
grlnrnh that