The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
Religious Notes.

Ine great scotch evangelist, Dr. Somervllie, ID
preaching in Athens Greece
A Buddhist temple has been opened in Paris,
and the priest comes from Ceylon to enlighten
ahe French.
The Rev. DR. Lorimer, of Chicago, has re-
ceived call to the First Baptist church OF Den
yer, which he declines with thanks.
A bell weighing 600 pounds the gift of Christ
Church Sunday school, indianapolis, has just
ibeen hung in the chapel of the Good Shepherd,
Seattle, Gre, recently opened.
A copy of the Gospel of ST. Matthew, written
uon papyrus in the third century, was discovered
DIN the collection of manuscripts found in the
metropolis of Fayouum by the Archduke
IRainer.
The Friends have secured desirable meeting
mouse and q lot in Gedih Pasha, Constantnople.
overlooking the Sea of Marmora. 1t was for
mery Turkish, but is now growing Arnen
Ian quarter.
Tubinger, the seat of the most famous Of the0-
logical schools, is town of less than 10000 in
habitants, seated in the heart of the black for
est The university has seven faculties, with
over eighty professors.
Dean E. A. Bradley. of indianapolis, has been
elected president of the standing committee in
place of DIR. Wakefield, and Rev. Dr. Jenckes
elected member of the committee, to fill the
vacancy made by DR.. Wakefelds removal.
Those who lift the most strongly in church
work are the readers and thinkers 1.-THE more
pastor the other day. Get more people to read
ing, and we will help to shape them into filters.
The Society of Friends reports total mem
bership in this country of about $4,000, and in
Great Britain and Ireland about Is, 900. Among
the various Indian tribes they have twenty-five
Friends engaged in teaching, and in the foreign
Aelds are doing nobleservice
The American Israelite is very indignant be
cause Mr. d. l.. Moody invited the Jews to come
30 Jesus and be saved 1t thus concludes a long
Tarticle I'VE wish Mr. Moody the best of sue
tcess as comedian on the stage, but as revi-
svalist, we only wish that he would let the Jews
alone
The Campbellite Church, the denomination to
which Mr. Garfield belonged has purchased 49,
900 acres of land at ST.. 70 per acre. and taken up
10000 acres additional near Redding, Shasta
scounty, Cal, on which they intend to found a
colony. The Complexities of St Louis are the
prime movers in the enterprise.
Lord Plunket. Bishop Of Meath, has been
elected Archbishop of Dublin. in succession to
DIR. Trench. His lordship is very low thurch-
man, but is very popular with all classes. The
new primate is in his own right peer of the
United Kingdom, so that there will now be three
archbishops in the House of Lords.
Ulm Cathedral will shortly be completed,
after remaining unfinished for nearly 400
years. Begun in 1877, the building was con
cluded in 1894, with the exception of its towers
which arc now being erected according to the
ancient design. This cathedral is one of the
largest in Germany, being nearly as big as the
Cologne Dom.
Rev. Dean Edward Bradley, late of Northern
Indiana, has accepted the rectorship of st.
Marys Church, Hillsboro, diocese of southern
Ohio. He oficiated in Christ Church. Madison,
on Sunday, I'd in Advent, greatly to the pleasure
of his old pensioners Christ Church has
called to the rectorship the Rev. John Moncure
of Gallipolis, O.
The growth of the Sunday school AS an ins.i-
SUTTON. or department of the Church, is seen by
few figures taken from the British parliament
tasy returns: Fifty years ago the attendance at
Sunday school was about 100000 Thirty
years ago the number had reached 2 600 Goo and
now there are 5000 900 the enrolment in day
schools being only 100000.
At the present moment the Wesleyan Meth
Ddists are devoting especial attention to the
training OF young men who are devoting them
selves to tho work of the ministry. During the
past year lao such young men have been under
training-37 at Richmond Surrey: 80 at Dds
bury, Manchester 81 at Headingley, Leeds and
B7 at Handsworth, Birmingham.
Young Man latter long interval of silence)-
a penny for your thoughts, Miss Clara.
Miss Clara (suppressins yawn)-I was won
derins if that clock isn't slow 1t seems to me
that church let out four hours ago. and now it's
only midnight.
The young man left without parting with his
penny, and in considerable haste.
From the advance sheets of the Congrcga
aional Year Book, it is found that the whole
number of churches is 4.092; new churches
Formed during the year. III; number of minis
ters, 1855; church members. 40l. 549; added on
profession IL, 923; net gain, $780, members of
Sunday school, 478.357: benevolent contribu-
lions, as reported by 1900 churches. 81 523 924
home expenditures, as reported by the same,
%, 8S4, l02.
Professor Opel, of Halle, has discovered and
published the original version of the cengrat
Hlatory letter addressed by Pope Urban VIII to
the Emperor Ferdinand IL, on the occasion of
Che sackng of Magdebnrg in l63l-one of the
most horrible events of the Thirty Years's War.
Hitherto this letter. the wording of which is not
an keeping with the gentle precepts of the Cos
pei, has been denounced as an impudent Prot.
estant fabrication All doubts of it's genuine
ness have at last vanished.
A non-sectarian school is to be opened in Jan
uary in Springfield, Mass. for the training of
young men to be secretaries of Young Mems
Christian Associations. Sunday school superin-
tendents and similar positions. The course of
instruction will include Bible history, the funda
mental doctrines and practical methods of
Christian work. 1t is thought that the trained
assistants III Sabbath school work tnow of such
vast monlent1 would add greatly to the efficiency
OF large schools, more especially in cities
The religious census of Russia shows that che
established Greek Church numbers something
over sixty-hye million members. out of the one
hundred million more inhabitants of the EN-
pire. The seets. of which there are multitude
embrace about twelve million inhabitants: Ro
man Catholicism has eight million, Protestant
ism something over three million, the Armenian
church about two million. Jews and Mohammed-
ans each about three million adherents. and be-
sides these there are about two million heather.
Missionary work in and near Canton is very
generally suspended on account of the Franco
Chinese war Twenty of the chapels of the
American Baptist mission in that province have
been looted, most of the schools have been sus
handed and the native Christians mn ecinp
through a storm of persecution. At Ninjpo the
residences and chapels of ali the missionaries,
Protestant and Catholic in Wen-Chan, have
been burned, and the soldiers sent to protect
Che foreigners are among the leaders of the
mob.
In Egypt, Syria and through the East gener
ally Christian missionaries have been directing
fheir energies chiefly to the young Experience
has taught them that very little progress is to be
made in dealing with the adult POPULATION.