The Indianapolis journal., 1885-10-11
Religious Notes.

There wants nothing but believing prayer to
turn the promise into performance.
Forty one thousand copies of the Scriptures in
the Turkish language have been distributed
among the Mussulmans.
The Wesleyans and other bodies of Methodists
In Great Britain now number TO-, 594, an increase
of 5,041 during the year.
The additions to the 543 Unitarian churches
of this country last year on confession of faith
were $685. an average of about eight to each
church.
The ffty-ninth year Of the New York City
Mission just closing has been one of successful
work among 250,000 people of all classes and
conditions
"How curious" says the Independent, 'that
man may very seriously doubt if he is Chris
tian, but be very certain that he is Baptist, a
Presbyterian Methodist"
During the last year there were 4,539 persons
added to the 543 reformed (Dutch) churches
Of this country, being an average of about eight
to each church.
$4,000 to their seminary at Minneapolis, three
years ago $4,000 for its endowment, and this
year $50, 600 for new buildings.
A missionary says that Japanese Christians
are eager for religious instruction that the
same audience will often listen to seven sermons
with only an intermission for tea after the
third.
Madame Swetchine: The nearer we come to
God, the less confident we feel in the wisdom
and utility of our own personal views, while we
come to have more and more respect for the very
will which we had sought to influence for the
good of the individual.
The London Religious Tract Society was or
ganized in 1899; the British and Foreign Bible
Society in 1904; the American Bible Society in
1916; the American Tract Society in 1925 These
four great catholic societies, two in England and
Axvai in hou
in the nineteenth century.
DR.. Landsdell, the famous missionary was
warned when beginning at Bokhara that his
plain, conventional, clerical costume would make
no impression on the natives, so he put on per-
fecty prismatic Persian vest, wore his scarlet
doctors hood over his gown, donned his square
college cap arrayed himself in all his Masonic
jewels, and took every town he entered by
horm.
Sir Matthew Hale says "If omit praying
and reading Gods word il the morning, nothing
goes we'll all day." Doctor r.. r. Meredith says:
..There are no better robes in which to be
found at the time of Christ's second coming
than your working Clothes" General Havelock
rose at A. if the hour for marching at 6,
rather than lose the precious privilege of COM
munion with God before setting out.
Here is Sam Joness idea os unstudied SER
mons: ut takes just three things to make up
good sermon thought. study ana prayer. Now
some preachers say they don't have to study
any. They say they open their mouths and the
Lord will fill them. just as soon as you open it
He will ill it with air. That is all know of
that he will fill it with There's many an old
air-gun shooting round over this country"
Thirteen years ago Mr. Watkins went to the
city of Gaudalajura. Mexico, as a Protestant
missionary. and found no one to welcome him.
At the end of a year he had sixteen converts.
Now there are l,600 members of Protestant
churches in the neighborhood The city itself
contains nearly 100000 people, and now has
street railways electric lights, telephone service,
etc, though not yet connected with the capital
by rail
Rev Geo. Grenfell. of the English Baptist
Iission on the Congo, and Dr. Sims, Of the