The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-04
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.
Send down Thy constant aid, we pray;
BE Thy pure angels with us still.

communicates.
Hon Milton J. Durham the frst Comptroller
of the Treasury, is member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and a graduate of De
Paw University.
Auerbach: The main token Of a strong char
acter is not to make known every change and
phase in thought and feeling, but to give the
world the finished results.
Under the control of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States, there are l02 edu-
cational institutions, with nearly 30, 000students
and buildings and endowments valued at nearly
Sl5, 000 000
Emerson: We do not know to-day whether
we are busy or idle. In times when we thought
ourselves indolent, we have afterward discov
cred that much was accomplished and much was
begun IN us.
! Reports of continued revival come almost
weekly from Germany and Switzerland. The
brethren in Hwickau are cheered by the recep-
ton of bequest of 5000 marks for their chapel
there. Every district reports revivals.
The one thousandth anniversary of the death
of Methodius the apostle to Moravia, who in
vented the Slovenian alphabet, and translated
the Bible into the language, is to be celebrated,
April D. by great national Slav pilgrimage.
Thomas Kempis: Daily ought we TO renew
our purposes and to stir up ourselves to greater
fervor and to say Help me, nay God in this
my good purpose and in Thy holy service, and
grant that may now this day begin perfectly"
The Garfield Memorial Church, in Washing
ton, is reported to be in prosperous condition,
the congregation having doubled in size
since occupying their new building, and the
debt having been provided for without mort
cages
Chancellor Sims, of Syracure University,
writes to the Northern: THE work of endow-
ing the university goes forward steady and en-
couragingly. The centennial movement has
given us cash and pledges 10 the amount of
100000, and the end is not yet
The most populous diocese in the world is
that of Calcutta, which contains no less than
10000 600 people, with an area of 400 600 square
miles. Madras comes next, with 81, coo, 600. The
missionary bishop of Victoria tChina) has
90eoe. 600 il his jurisdiction, aud he Of Mid
China, 900. =
Episcopal Recorder: f'Who shall roll US away
the stone from the door of the sepulcher" was
the despairine cry Of the women, on the way to
the tomb of Joseph. 1t has been the question
of ignorance and unbelief ever since. And only
in crucifed and risen Savior is the answer
found. He is the resurrection and the life"
Two confessional boxes have just been placed
IN the Episcopal Church of ST. Mary the Virgin.
ST. Ienatius Church is still step in advance,
in restoring the ritualism expunged from the
service at the time of severance from the Ro-
man Church, having praetieed the elevation of
the Host since Father Richie assumed the rec
torship.
The Presbyterian Church in the United Safes
sustains missions among seven Of the Indian
tribes of this country-namely, the Senecas,
Chippewas, OmahaS, Creeks, Dakotas, Semi
noles and Nez Perees. They have fifteen mis-
sions, with an aggregate of L 256 communicates.
They also have ten schools with an aggregate of
$50 scholars
In the United States there are 500 organized
Universalist churches and societies, and 600 Sun
day-schools they have 766 church edi6ces, and
about 700 ministers. About 10000 families are
members Of the denomination, and their church
property is valued at ST. 600 600. The doctrines
were first preached by John Murray, in ITO, and
the first church was organized at Gloucester,
Mass, in 17I9
The report is authentic though not official,
that the Apecrypha will not be ready for pub
ication this spring. when the revised Old Tesla
ment appears. The two companies have divided
the Apoerypha between them, and the New Tes
lament company have made considerable prog
ress with their part. The settlement of the text
of the Apocrypha is found to present much more
difficulty than its translation does
Boston CongregationaIist: "A church in
Cortland, n ". rejoices in the name Of Tin
pail Church. given by the cider and weather
churches OF the place at the time of its organi-
cation because all the members were from the
laboring classes. 1t is not improbable that we
should do more for the Of Christ if we
were to organize IN all our cities and growing
villages, 'tin-pail churches where the common
people would feel at home"
The Christian Observer, having gathered sta
tistics from the leading cities of the United
STATES in reference to Church attendance,
reaches this conclusion: I'm the best of our
cities only about one-feurth Of the population
habitually attend any evangelical church; in our
larger cities less than one tenth habituay hear
the preaching OF the gospel; and in the metr0pol
itan centers, such as New York. Chicago and
San Francisco, perhaps only or per cent.
of the people--one in sixteen or seventeen-at
tend any evangelical services"
1t is fact that is not so generally known out
side of England that some of the richest advow
sons in the national church use the hereditary
property of Roman Catholic peers. But being
Catholics they cannot exercise the rights of
patrons The situation is easily understood. 1t
may be regarded as one of the signs Of the times
that Lord harrington, according to announce
ment, has taken charge of bin the avowed
object of which is to enable Roman Catholic
owners OF advowsons to present to livings. So
radical a change, it is generally agreed, would
have the effect of fastening "disestabshment."
New York city has 500 churches, divided as fol
lows: BAPTIST. As; Congregational, 8: Friends,
4; Jews, 81; Lutheran, "a; Methodist Episcopal,
81; African Methodist, 8; Moraviana 2 Presby,,
terrain, 60; United Presbyterian, z Reformed
Presbyterian, 5; Protestant Episcopal. 81; Re-
formed Episcopal, 2; Reformed tDutchl 81; Ro
man Catholic, 81; Union, 10; Unitarian, 3;
Universalist, 4; miscellaneous, 80. A careful
count Of the minutes of the Protestant churches
shows that on the average each church has 800
communicates or church members, and these
would fairly represent population of 100000 or
400,0 600 persons
1t is not generally known that there is a col
Dny Of Jews in China which is at least two hun
bred years older than the Christian era. They
have during all these centuries kept themselves
from the Genfiles around them. and have pre-
served in considerable purity many of the orig
inal customs of their people Some mystery is
attached to the question how they wandered so
far East, and in this particular direction. But
it is conceded that they have been in China for
at least twenty-one centuries. OF late they have
been brought in contact with the missionaries,
and to hoy1e hat OYnA o vgi ha
upon their history
One of the standing difficulties of Bible chro-
nology has been cleared up in very remarka-
bic manner. Amid the ruins of the Chadean
record Office, which formed part of the Temple,
number Of tablets were found On examina-
that fh1o