The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-13
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.


organized in Mexico with six churches.
1t is reported that 10000 Protestant children
are attending Catholic schools in the United
States.
The Philadelphia woman's Foreign Mission
airy Association of Friends propose to establish
Friends Mission in Japan.
In portion of Liverpool, Eng, embracing a
territory Of 1,400x1 700 yards there are 571 full
licensed public houses and 100 licensed in part.
On the occasion of the late anniversary of the
Chiaren's Home London, the organst was Mr.
Glenn Wesley grandson of Charles Wesley, the
Methodist poet
o. ". Holiness Always twirl one of those re-
volying bookcases when you visit a scholars
library; that is the way to find out what books
he doesn't want you to see.
An entire estate, valued at $25, 900, has been
left by the late William W. Smith, of Worces-
ter, Mass, to the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Mission, for the education OF
eosored men IN Africa.
Rev Dr. H. A. Stern, missionary among the
jews for over forty years, has just died at the
age of sixty four. He one of the Abyssin-
ian captives. who after years of protracted
cruel imprisonment, was delivered by Lord Ma
pier, in 1865.
Charles Buxton: Moral courage is more worth
having than physical not only because it is a
higher virtue, but because the demand for it is
more constant Physical courage is virtue
which is almost always put away IN the lumber
room. Moral courage is wanted day by day.
The number of Christian Israelites in Eng
land at the beginning of the present century is
believed not to have exceeded thirty FIVE. 1t is
estimated that they now number 5000 In one
way and another it is thought that ], 500 Jews
leave the synagogue for the Christian church
every year
TIE London Spectator says that one of the
many mistakes which English people have made
with regard to Irish affairs, is the belief that the
Roman Catholic faith the source of Irish
disafection 1t says that those who have shaken
of that faith are the most bitter and most dan
gerous enemies of England.
DIR. William M. Taylor: The resurrection is
only the tomorrow morning OF DEATH and when
we think of the grave we should do so as in the
happy days of our childhood we thought of our
bed when we retired to 1T for the night, expect
ing elder brother to call us in the morning
and take US with him on pleasant excursion.
The Shah of Persia is to be ranked among the
liberal monarchs of the time. Christian missions
have received fair protection and encouragement
throughout his empire; and some of them have
made excellent progress. The latest piece of
news regarding the Shah and the Christian
missionaries is to the effect that he has given
$500 to the Presbyterians toward the erection of
mission church at Hamadan.
Professor Austin Phelps in paper on 'Re-
forms" in tie Chicago Advance asks this peril
nent question: Have you never known q pas
tor whose ministry had the look of stern chase?
He was not only not in advance of his age, not
even abreast with his age but little and only
little behind his age; so near that he could al
ways be in at a victory, but never there the
fight"
The admirers of Sam Jones in Nashville,
Tenn, recently rendered him. $40, 600 for the
purchase of house in that city to be used by
him as a residence. When the letter making
the offer was placed in his hands he broke out in
tears, and begged them to let him live on in
Georgia with his six children and unpretending
wife in their humble cottage. The money was
declined.
The Richmond Advocate says: ''Of the 1877
counties in Georgia, ninety-six are under pro-
hibitory law by local option, and other counties
are moving in the same direction. The honest
masses of that State seem to be reaching the
conclusion that strong drink must be banished
from Georgia Why may not the sober and
moral people of Virginia do something to rid
themselves and the State of this monster, curse2"
Freetown, on the west coast, and Freretown,
on the east coast of Africa are grateful places of
refuge to the natives and noble monuments
of England's protest against the slave trade.
Freetown. with ius population of 16, 600, consists
almost entirely of liberated slaves and Frere-
town has recently had placed in its asylum two
hundred rescued slaves, who are under the care
and instruction of the Church Missionary So
siety.
Rev. DIR. Valentine, so we'll known in connec-
lion with the medical work in India. calls at
tention to the institution for the training of
medical missionaries. established in Agra, the
city of the wonderful TAI Mahal. The cost of
training native and making him at once
skilled physician and evangelist is very small
The dialects spoken in Agra are so widespread
that the men trained there will have the means
of access to immense masses of population
Western Christian Advocate: 1t is said of
Sam Jones that in one place where he had been
holding revival services for some weeks, purse
of 81, 500 was put into his hands, He took out
5000, and handed the remaining 81, 300 to the
committee, with the request that it be used to
help the families of saloon keepers who had
been converted, and had thus been thrown out
of business We learned this from an entirely
reliable gentleman in Chattanooga, who said he
believed it to be fact If the statement is
true, it is not strange that such man has
power over his fellows.
According to the Methodist Yearbook for 1885,
the statistics of membership in the different
Protestant denominations are as follows: Meth
odists % 839 ministers, 1893 724 members:
Baptists 1926 ministers, 2,552, l99 members;
Presbyterians, S,S9S ministers, 1902. 944 mem
bers; Lutherans, g. $40 ministers 800. 1e9 mem
bers; Disciples of Christ 8 488 ministers 563 928
members; Congregationalists 1928 ministers,
387 GIG embers; Episcopaians, $50 ministers,
313 1856 members. Ii will thus be seen that the
Methodists and Baptists- are far ahead of the
other bodies, and that while the Presbyterians
are more than twice larger than the Lutherans,
Congregationalists, Disciples of Christ, or Epis-
copalians, the Methodists' numbers are double
those of the Fresbyterians.
A famous prayer-book is now on exhibition in
Bond street, London. 1t is three inches by two
1t was originally the property of Queen Eliza
beth. 1t consists of sixty-five leaves OF vellum,
on which are neatly written. in the Qneen's own
hand, prayers in English, Greek, Latin, French
and Italian. The inside of the shagreen case.
which is adorned with ruby clasps contains
pair of miniatures-one of the Queen and one of
the Duke D'Aleneon-painted by Nicholas Hill
lard 1t is supposed that the book was intended
as gage d'amour for the Duke in 1881, when,
it is known. she had agreed to accept him as her
husband. The book has passed successvely
through the hands of James III, the Duke of
Berwick, Horace Walpole, the Duchess of Ports
mouth. the Duchess of Leeds into those of Its