The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-27
READING FOR THE DAY.



the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine
Rev Dr. Hayes, of Denver has declined the
call the Second Presbyterian Church, of Cincin-
matt.
Pope Leo XIII has issued bull for the OBJ
scrvance of the rosary during the month of
October.
A GOOD text for every protesting Christian to
hear an earnest sermon upon is: They that use
fhis world as not abusing it."
For the last six years nephew Of the late
King Cetewayo has been studying in Stockholm.
and has now returned to his native country as a
missionary.
The white Baptists of the South have $40 asso-
citations. ID 102 churches, and 997 500 members.
The colored Baptists have 7,480 churches, with
81, 043 members.
Chaplain McCabe says he won't sing for any
more audiences until they have responded to his
appeals for their quote Of the million OF mis-
sions" Methodist fund.
The Episcopal Methodist sums up the number
of conversions reported in the several papers Of
The Methodist Episcopal Church South for
given week, and puts the total at o. SOL
Independent: Christ is our Savior only be-
cause.-The is our Redeemer. and he is our Redeemer
only because he has shed his precious blood as
the redemption price of our souls and bodies.
The universities Of Oxford and Cambridge
support of the most important missions in
Africa, and founded it at the suggestion of and
tone.
Rev. DIR. Gregg is writing history of Pres
byterianism in Canada. He is one of the most
prominent men who has contributed to the
growth of the Presbyterian Church In that
country.
The Church of England has organized 1.-THE
Church Army, modelled somewhat after the Sal
walton Army. 1t already has a membership of
over 5000, and it's design is to employ the lay
element in eyangelistic work.
The United Methodist Free churches represent
the union of three denominations of Methodists,
aud they constitute the youngest of all the
ganized offshoots from the old Wesleyan body
There are 1885 members and 1872 preachers.
A child who had inst mastered her catechism
confessed herself disappointed, because she said.
Though obey the fifth commandment, and
honor my papa and mamma, yet my days
not bit long in the land, because am still put
to bed at o'clock"
Kossuth, during his imprisonment in Turkey.
studied two books, Shakespeare and the English
Bible. When be went through the country de-
hvering speeches, remarkable for their eloquence
and idiomatic grace of expression scholars asked
In amaZement how this man had learned English
SO accurately.
King Leopold of Belgium. who has done so
much for Africa, and contributed so largely of
bis private fortune to advancing missionary
work, is contemplating the opening of a semi
cary in Holland where young men can prepare
for missionary work in the newly opened por
hons of central Africa.
young women get more culture and young
men more special facility in college The broad
er education must always be literary-mustde deal
chiefly with concepts and their expression, and
women pursue the literary education while men
more and more specialize with reference to some
bread winning craft" So says DR.. D. H. Wheeler.
United Presbyterian: 1t is one of the hard
things to keep the mind fresh and elastic when
the body is beset by illness and care, and when
the mind is tyrannized by some oppression The
tendency is to droop and languish, feeling all the
time, perhaps that the moodiness thus produced
Is a sign of inward grace. But it is fault that
plety toerates but can not approve
Suggestions have been made that the essay
OF Dr. Rush, which started the temperance
form In this county one hundred years ago, be
used as one of the reading and textbooks on
temperance now being introduced in the public
schools. The essay ls entitled IAN Inquiry into
tho Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon the Human
Mind and Body" and is considered one of the
strongest temperance documents ever produced.
The Texas Christian Advocate is authority for
The following: THE National Liquor Dealers
Association sent deputation to Washington
City to inform our senator's and representatives. in
Congress that unless this prohibition m ovement
IN the South is speedily checked it 1.-THE National
Liquor Dealers Association) would give all the
doubtful States in the North to the Republican
party. We make the statement deliberately and
upon good authority.
Ruskin: Let every dawn of morning be to
You as the beginning of life and every setting
sun be to YOU as it's close then let every of
these short lives leave its sure record of some
gO0dly strength or knowledge gained for your
Selves so, from day TO day, from strength to
strength you shall build up indeed, by art, by
thought and by just will. an ecclesia, of which
1t shall not be said, "see what manner Of stones
are here, but see what men,"
DR.. Ellicott. Bishop of Gloucester, was one of
tho opfrr nlarc of Ma
revision committee His commentaries on
several of the Pauline epistles have put him in
the front rank of Biblical critics. The distin-
guished divine has just been made D. D. by the
University of Oxford; and his friends in his own
diocese have resolved to have his portrait pain ed
and hung in the palace with the other portraits
OF the bishops OF Gloucester and Bristol.
The Baptists and Methodists are disputing as
to which denomination has the larger number
OF members In this country. The Waterman
figures it that there are 2.557. 1913 ''actual mem
hers in regular Baptist churches" while the
Methodist Episcopal churches, North and South.
number LOTT. 223 members. But lions Herald
has statistics showing that IN all the Methodist
family of churches in the United States there
are LOIS, $40 members. Deducting all members
living on foreign stations and probationers, the
membership reaches TIA, 145.
Religious Herald: There he goes He is
member of the church. ON his way to his dinner
-he always goes. He is true to his dinner and
walks ~liie ana haii 20 get IT, ne may stay
away from his prayer meeting; he forgets his
church meeting; he is slow in his pew rent: he is
neglectful of the Sunday schools bad weather
Keeps him back from many THINGS but in all his
nckleness and failings he is true to his dinner.
He may slight his soul, but he is true to his
stomach. Every man has his god, and serves
him faithfully. But then not every man has
the same god. =
Hitherto the Mohammedan population of
India, which is already numerous and constantly
on the increase, has been somewhat neglected
by the government. They are not eligible to
evil Offices. and they have received no assist
ance in the matter of education. According to
the Moslem Observer. of Madras, the cry of the
Mohammedans has at last been heard by the
government aud important resolution has
been issued regarding their education and their
employ in the public service. Earl Dufferin
who has taken some pains to examine the docu-
ments which have been submitted to him on the
suhiecf will haya all iha elnrx of this naw do