The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-11
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

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The Baptists of Philadelphia have surpassed
all the other denominations OF that city in the
matter OF church extension during the last ten
years.
The Baptists now have thirty-four churches
10 north Dakota and about LOCO members.
They have missionary who is planting that
faith freely
In the town of Lagos. Guinea, West Africa
quite a revival was experienced last year when
$50 persons young and old, professed ito have
received forgiveness and grace"
Ii has now been definitely settled that Arch
deacon Farrar will sail for America on visit to
the nited States and Canada in September
The Archdeacon will be warmly welcomed.
During thirteen years of ceaseless and earnest
labor by evaDgelsts, more than thousand
soldiers have left the Church of Rome, and have
been admitted as members Of the Evangelical
Military Church.
At Outsha, on the Niger, there were 1.0S1
persons present at special service, when fifty
adult converts and thirty three children were
baptized, and twenty-three were confirmed by
Bishop Crowther.
The late Henry Sngmaster. of Stroudsburg,
Pa, has left an estate estimated at between
$160 900 and $500 000 to be equally divided after
the death Of his wife, between the Lutheran
theological seminaries of Philadelphia and Get
tysburg.
The Dean, of st. Paul's, London, has given his
permission for monumental brass, or statue, to
be placed in ST. Pauls Cathedral to the memory
of the war correspondents who fell in the recent
campaigns in the Soudan. st. Pauls. which
contains the ashes of both Nelson and Yelling
ton, is becoming more and more sacred to the
god of war
Father Lowder was for many years almost as
well known in America as he was in England.
He was man after the pattern of the apostles.
1t is we'll that such should be held in lasting
honor a bpautifr1l the
of which has been suggested by the words,
''Feed my lambs, etc.. has been placed in st. Bar
nabas's Church, Pamlico, in his honor.
A recent international Sunday school lesson
has stirred up the Christian Union to write in
praise of grit" which it ranks as a leading
Christian virtue. ''The grace of grit" it says,
sis an appraised grace; more's the pity. 1t were
well to teach it in our churches and develop it in
our schools. Peter put it next to faith. Add to
your faith virtue, said he. The modern equiva-
lent for virtue is grit
A traveller recently found himself in an
Armenian church at Constantinople when the
audience were singing hymn, with closed eyes
and profound feeling, to simple melody. Many
g. them were so deeply affected as to shed tears
while they sang The stranger asked his guide
what The words were, and found them to be
Armenian translation of Toplady famous hymn,
''Rock of Ages, cleft for me-"
The Commission of General Conference En-
tertainment met in New York city July 2, for
the purpose of fixing the seat of the next Metho-
dist General Conference, and transacting certain
other business in the interests of that body.
Boston and New York each having invited the
General Conference the commissioners, after
carefully considering the matter, decided in
favor of New York. The General Conference of
1883 will, therefore, be held in the city Of New
York.
In an institution in Scotland for blind women,
the hearts of the inmates were greatly touched
by a sermon preached to them on the text,
"Gather up the fragments" The poor women
and girls, with an enthusiasm to shame others
in more fortunate circumstances began
dropping into boxes their farthings, in the name
of Christ and the heathen Ten months having
passed, their boxes have just been opened the
fragments" counted, and f6 have been given
for mission purposes in China.
Sunday, June IA was the first Sunday on which
the new law came into operation. About fifty
thousand people were freed from labor in tho
city, and the ma ority, of them, with their wives
and children, went to the suburbs, where the
beer gardens were crowded: Railways. tram
ways and omnlbuseS reaped an abundant har-
vest All the telegraphc and news agencies
were closed. So, also, were the editorial Offices,
and Vienna, on Sunday, was for the first time
without Sunday afternoon papers. The new law
was well enforced, and the general feeling was
one of satisfaction.
The Japan Mail reports a most favorable
preaching service held in Toxic, in the largest
theater of the city. The audiences are variously
estimated at from 4.500 to 5000 each day The
preaching was mostly by native Japanese pas
tors, and the people listened eagerly for four
hours each day while the gospel was preached
to them. The Mail says: 'The large attendance,
The earnest attention, with so little dissent or
interruption, in so public and free place as the
most popular theater in Toxic, give evidence of
marked advance in public sentiment in favor
Of Christianity within the space Of one short
year.
7ar'c hric A NIX vbo
forbids to use his name, has furnished So. 900
to purchase the house and grounds that Bishop
Taylor and his missionaries now occupy il
Loanda, Africa as a recruiting station for our
workers when they arrive on that coast, and as
a place for them to return 10 when disabled in
the work from sickness, instead of returning
home. 1t cost its owner 49, 000 This beautiful
missionary home is described as being most ad
vantageously situated on high ground above
the range of mosquitoes and malaria and receiv-
ing the sweep of the cooling sea breezes. The
money has gone forward for its purchase
Hitherto it has not been a characteristic of
German Christianity that it has sought express
sion in sending the gospel to the heather. In
this respect Protestant Germany has been far
behind Great Britain and America. Now that
Germany has gone into the colonizing business
on somewhat extensive scale, there is notice
able change for the better on the part of many
German Protestants. Some of the churches and
congregations already bestirring themselves,
and by many who formerly had no faith in mis-
siOns the missionary is freely spoken of as the
pioneer of civilization. In the Congo region, on
the northern coast of Africa, and in New Guinea
Germany has inviting mission fields, and it will
not be at all wonderful if North Germany should
become in mission work rival of Great Britain
and America.
An interesting religious movement is taking
place in Italy. Several priests, one of whom,
Count Campobello, held high Office at the Vati-
can, have become gradually convinced of tho
errors of Papal supremacy, and have formed
what may become a nucleus of reformed Cath
ollie Church in Italy Wishing TO preserve epis-
eopal orders, they do not feel able to join the
native Protestant church, which is Presbyterian
in its government, but endeavor to form a church
on the model Of the Church of England with
forms Of prayer in the national language
Though not very far advanced in Protestant
doctrine, the vigorous and able attack of Campo
bello on the claims of the Pope to be the visible
head of the church must excite the sympathy of