The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-13
To the 9th uls there had been seventy-one ac-

cessions.
At Trenton Rev. A. c. Gruber has received
fifteen into full connection.
Rev John Roger. in charge of Springville cir
cult, has just closed protracted meeting, which
resulted in forty-seven accessions.
Rev. ]. D. Current has closed a revival at Yves.
ley Chapel on Clarksburg charge, Southeast
Conference. Forty-one joined the church
At Centerville, Vernon circuit, Southeast
Conference, Rev. G. W. Tinsley, pastor. revival
services for two weeks resulted in a number OF
conversions and twenty one additions.
revival at Mt. Zion, Crothersville circuit,
Southeast Conference, closed with nine addi-
twenty-seven additions on probation aud two by
letter
The first quarterly meeting on Scottsburg
charge was held Nov. % and 3d. During quarter
ten were received into full membership and
thirty five on probation There have been a
number OF conversions.
At Blackford street, indianapolis, there have
been seventy two conversions. This makes now
over one hundred probationers at this church
The missionary assessment for the year has
been reported, and 81 over the amount sub
scrbed.
DIR. JOHN HALLS INCOME.
Christian Advocate.
Letters and items about DIR. John Halls in
come are going through the press of the country.
All that we have seen are untrue to absurdity.
Here is one from leading Boston paper: 1.-THE
Rev. Dr. John Hall. of New York, receives a
ssary Of as pastor and and n $1,000
sity Of the City of New York" To this
are added estimates of what he receives
for literary work. AS to DR.. Halls receipts
from literary work we know nothing, and 1t is
not the publics business. But we do know that
cent for his services as chancellor of the Univer
sity of the City of New York. That is labor
OF love, undertaken at the urgent re-
quest of the friends of the university,
and of citizens Of all classes. His salary
is not $50, 900 year. but $l5, 900. 1t was raised
to that from $40 900 against his protest, and is
the generous gift of his people that he may be
able to respond to the incessant calls for benevo
lence. One of the items says that he owns the
elegant house in which he lives. That is false.
Nor is it possible to get house near his church
for less than 81, 900 to S. 900 per annum. Fifteen
thousand dollars is a large salary, but no larger
for that neighborhood than 81, 600 or 81, 600 is
for some others in the city. What his church
does in benevolence and gifts for church work is
on the same generous scale. DR.. Halls influence
and career here have greatly helped orthodox
Christianity. and though he is not of our com
munion we have so observed his course since he
came to New York that we are in position to
deny the falsehoods and to find pleasure in doing
so. They are circulated freely by all who hate
the church
BISHOP TAYLoR's AFRICAN MISSION
Bishop Taylor writes from Lisbon, Portugal,
that when his business there is completed he
will visit Brussels London, and Liverpool, and
will return to Africa in time for the Liberia
conference in January. He says of the work in
the region of the Congo: "All our people in south
central Africa settled. and comfortably set
tied in houses. All were well and hearty, happy
and hopeful when l left them except that L.
johnson and E. Chatelain had occasional re-
lapses We have thirty-one at the front. All
had turn at African fever except Minnie Mead
She was so occupied with the care of her six
children that she had no time for fever, like
myself We have six stations opened and pro-
crossing, not counting Mossamedes. which I
assigned to the Quakers We have one station
at Masuba inland from Mayumba, two degrees
south of the equator and FIVE stations in Angola,
extending along the direct route toward the
center of the continent from Loanda to Ma
lange-34 miles"
QUAKER QUESTION.
The Friends, it has always been known, had
some marked pecuiarites of their own but they
have never been suspected of having any Unita-
rian tendencies or being in the least doubt or
difficulty about the divinity Of Christ. At a re-
cent quarterly meeting in California, one of the
questions sent out to be answered by the month
ly meetings to whether not they be-
lieved in the deity of the man Jesus Christ y
So far as is generally known this is the first
time such a question has been raised in quar-
terly sent to monthly meeting. 1t seems to
imply that something is wrong somewhere.