The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-25
Religious Notes.

1he Salvation Army in England proposes tc
send a mission to China, with a native leader.
Philadelphia Conference NJ. E, Church has
five camp-meetings in full blast within its terri
tory.
Another party of missionaries for Bishop Tay
lor's work in Africa will leave New York in
February or March next.
DR.. Fl. d. Fisher has severed his connection
with the Kansas Methodist, having disposed Of
all his interest to Rev. A. n. See.
A rock altar, with steps battered and weather
worn, has recently been discovered near Zorah
the home of Manoah, the father of Samson.
A scarcely religious subject, to be discussed in
the congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church
III New Haven, next October, is The Ethics Of
the Tariff Question"
The Lord Mayor of London is a very accept
able lay Baptist preacher. He preached, re
Gently, at the centennial! commemoration Of the
Baptist Church, Bow, London.
It was stated by DR.. Vose, of Providence, at a
farewell meeting to a lady of his church about
to start for India, that hitherto no foreign mis-
sionaries had gone from Rhode Island.
The King of New Zealand has recently made a
visit to England, and while there pledged him
self at a public meeting to exert his influence in
the work Of spreading the Gospel among his
people.
A Swedish translation of the Gospel of John
is the first book printed in the language of the
NOuAOs ~ WIS IIdloidIGU ny Tx CWeulSu HIS
sionary, Vestlind, who has labored many years
In equatorial Africa.
The statistics of Wesleyan Methodism in
England for the past year have just been pub
lished, aid show AZ, $40 new members added,
but when vacancies by death, removal, emigra-
ton and other leakages are filed, the clear gain
is only .. 800.
The Churchman SAYS: THE Revised Bible
bears, like it's forerunner, the New Testament,
the assertion of conscious incompetency on its
front. The American revisers cannot agree with
their English brethren; and, again, We have two
r%evisions instead of the one work that was bar
gained for. This fact is a sentence of death upon
the attempt to suspend the well-tried and most
satisfactory English version"
The Baptist Weekly advises Christian people,
whose churches are closed, instead of lingering
about the house" to give themselves to some
Christian work. ''There are" says the writer,
''prisons or hospitals they might visit, or they
might take a bundle of tracts and scatter them
On the seats in our parks, or there are some sick
and needy members of their own church with
whom they could spend an hour, cheering their
loneliness"
The instrumental music question, which has
been debated annually for fifteen years by the
Presbyterians of Ireland, but never satisfactorily
settled, we'll nigh caused a schism this year.
Indeed, a number of ministers and elders did
secede from the assembly for a short time, and
held an opposition meeting. In a few hours,
however, d truce was drrduSeu, UuL SUCH was
the tension of feeling that it was deemed ex-
pedient to continue debate on the subject, which
was accordingly postponed till next year.
The Rev. W. W. Martin, A NJ, who is to take
the chair of Old Testamentexegesis in the School
of theology, DePauw University, next Septem-
her, is now on his way to this country. Prof.
Martin has spent two years in Beyroot, Syria, in
the study of living Oriental languages in their
relation to Hebrew. The authorities of the
Syrian Protestant College counted his coming to
that city a special providence, as Prof. Martin
became directly instrumental in bringing about
an unprecedented revival of religion among the
students of that institution.
At Bedford, England, the memory of the au,
thor of the Pilgrims Progress" is perpetuated
by what is known as the Bunyan Meeting house.
The present incumbent of the church is a Mr..
Brown. Mr.. Brown, it appears, has for some
years been engaged in collecting material for a
work on Bunyan's life and times. His position
gave him great advantages. The work is now
about to be published, and it will, it is said, dis
close for the first time some interesting facts re-
garding Bunyan and his family. The Bunyans
are traced back as far as the twelfth century.