The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-25
Religious Notes.

The Church of the United Brethren is doing
good work in Bohemia. The work is interesting
and constantly growing.
The total number of Jews in the world is
placed at 6. 81, COZ, of whom 300, 600 have their
abiding place in America.
The Church Press notes a growing disposition
among Episcopalians to call in question the
utility of Sunday-schools.
In a recent sermon the Rev. Carlos Martyr
said that 'the Bible reveals God as a person ex-
quisitely sensitive to right and wrong"
DIR. Cuyler: God sometimes washes the eyes
of children with tears, in order that they may
read Alright His providence and His Command
ments.
On the west coast of Africa the missionaries
are said to be starving for food. In other por-
tons of the dark continent" the people are
starving for missionaries.
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland embraces
nearly one-half of the Protestant population of
the country. There are 553 con gregations, $40
ministers, and lOl, 452 communicates
A Georgia darby prays with discretion. He
said: IF l ask the Lord to send me a turkey l
won't git it, but if l ask Him to send me after a
turkey I always git one before daybreak."
The date of the Baltimore conference of the
Jewish Ministers Association has been changed
TO the 26th and 9th inst, the latter day for the
conference of Sabbath school superintendent
and principals.
A Scotch gelatlne manufacturer sends out with
every package of his goods a leaf from the Bible.
A package recently opened by a cook in a large
city had the interesting story of Abraham and
his wife Sarah.
There is no New Testament demand that the
preacher shall be either fluent or smart" or,
while distinct and audible, that he shall, as a
primary qualification, be either vehement or vo-
eiferous, or both.
A writer in the Church Eclectic objects to
'the name Protestant Episcopal-which means
las our missionaries, who have labored to trans
late it into Chinese. tell us) The Contradictory
Bishops Church"
LOAF option is finding strong advocates in Eng
land, and the opposition to the rum traffic is in
creasing. The temperance tide is rising. Let
1t rise and sweep all before it. 1t is high time to
put the curse away.
A clergyman has been making calculations,
and announces as the startling result that all the
salaries of religious teachers in the country do
not amount to so much as the sum spent an
nually in supporting dogs.
The Rev. w. J. hampton says truly: "One
preacher, standing in the pulpit holding open the
door of the kingdom of heaven, doesn't attract
nearly as much attention as a late arrival hold
ing open the door of the church,
The total contributions of the forty churches
of the New York Presbytery, with their 10, GIG
communicants, the past year were $848, 442. II,
of which $SS, l49 was for home and $50, 742 for
foreign missions, $442, 025 for congregational,
and SOL, 23S for miscellaneous purposes.
Waterman: 1t is all very we'll to have noble
theories about God, but where is the good of
them except we actually trust in Him as a real,
present, living, loving being, who counts us of
more value than many sparrows, and will not let
enc OF them fall to the ground without him..
Turgenief: But very late in life, and that af-
ter experiencing many trials, a man learns to
sympathize with a fallen, feeble brother, to help
him without inwardly enjoying his own goodness
and strength, to humbly understand and appre-
ciate the naturalness, nay. the unavoidableness,
Df committing o wrong sometimes.
Or. Guthrie: Give me these links: First.
sense of need; second, desire to get: third. be-
lief that, though He withhold for awhile, He
loves to be asked, and, fourth, belief that asking
will obtain-giye me these links, and the chain
will reach from earth to heaven, bringing all
heaven down to me-, Or bearing me up into
heaven.
An attempt is again being made to reunite the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the
South and the United Presbyterians, who split
Upon the slavery question. Doetrinally both
bodies are In agreement, and both sing metrical
versions of the Psalms exclusively in public
worship, rejecting hymns as an unauthorized in
novation.
DIR. Newman says that of all the letters re-
ceived by General Grant from good people who
were solicitous about his spiritual welfare. the
one that rouched him most was written by an
aged Quaker, and ran as follows: Friend
Grant: | ar a stranger to thee; / would not in
trude upon thy suffering. but am anxious for thy
soul Trust in Jesus. He will not fail thee.r
One rich English Christian has written to the
Methodist Times to say that rather than that
the defense of Mr.. Stead shall cost that gentle
man anything he will himself contribute E5. 600
70 the fund. Christian England is evidently
aroused, and we shall see whether English con-
science is a match for aristocratic crime. The
conflict Is becoming q thing of magnitude, and