The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-28
Religious Notes.

kchildren were counted in the public houses of
Manchester alone.
Aureiius: Opinion is the main thing which
does good or harm in the world; it is our false
opinions of things which ruin us
The Rev Dr. Pullman has decided to accept
the call of the Lynn Mass Universalist Church,
and will enter upon his new duties April II.
Origen: The knowledge that arises from good
ness is something that is more certain and more
divine than all demonstration, than all other
learning of the world.
The average salary Of Congregational min
listers in Connecticut the great stronghold of
the denomination, is $780, The highest is
So, 900 and the lowest $400
According to the Christian Union. Elev-
enth ward, New York city, has nineteen church
'es and Sunday schools, five industrial schools,
one hospital and 346 saloons.
Religion is not for the church alone. Every
deyout heart is itself a sanctuary, and every
place is hallowed ground" God is as near the
counter the altar. and those who seek him can
always find him.
The temperance agitation in South Carolina
has had the effect of greatly increasing the cost
of LIQUOR licenses One small town licenses but
single bar room, the proprietor OF which pays
$1,000, equal to the total expenses of the town.
The Religious Telescope publishes full list of
the delegates elected to the General Conference
of the United Brethren, which meets in Fos-
toria, o., May H. Fortyfour conferences are
represented DIV III uelegaLeS. 10 IIleS0 are TO
be added the five bishops.
The Rev Dr. Wilder, of the Missionary Re-
view, estimates that there are now 2,755 or
dained foreign missionaries sent out from all the
Protestant churches of Chrstendom gain of
155 in the last seven years, and that nearly
1f2 600, 900 was raised for foreign missions among
these churches last year.
w. Mackworth Young stated in a recent paper
On mission work in India that in the last
sixty years the number of European laborers at
tached to the church missionary society (of En-
gland} has increased from 1G6 to 227-less than
three-fold; whereas the number of native labor
ers has Increased from 3l3 to J, 778, more than
ten-fold.
United Presbyterian; ''Shall we have a dinner
on the Sabbath, and, inviting our friends, enjoy
the social comforts Of the day of restl" Certain
~ not. iii comes in the way to entertain a
Christian friend, let u5 do so, and, getting a
blessing from him, give him one in RETURN but
let us save the day from the secular social COM
merce that will rob it of its religious Impressive
ness. Six days shalt thou labor in giving din
ners. but the seventh is the Sabbath Of the Lord
thy God
Robertson Smith is a name which is we'll
known to newspaper readers. Some two or
three years ago he was removed from his chair
in the Free Church College, Aberdeen. for per-
sistentiy, and after much warning, advocating
what were regarded as heterodox opinions con-
corning the books of the Old Testament. He
has since become a Cambridge professor fact
which illustrates the broad and generous views
of the Church of England Professor Smith has
just been elected a fellow of Christ Church.
Cambridge.
Free Sc Georges, Edinburg, has long had the
reputation of being the grandest specimen of an
individual congregation in the British isles, not
excepting any of the London churches It's first
minister was DR.. Candlish, the John Knox Of the
disruption period Under its present pastor, Dr.
Whyte, st. Georges maintains its grand record
It's animal contributions for all purposes are still
ubrivaled, aud its Office bearers, elders and dea-
cons included, eighty nine in all. are equal to a
respectable presbytery. st. Georges has always
been working church
Crown Of Glory Bear with each others faults
Love one another, and help one another. Pity
each other. Bear each others burdens. We are
all moving on q great march, a vaster assembly
than ever moved through the wilderness of old,
and we stand related to Him, and He to us, and
we to each other. We shall, therefore, look back
with unspeakable sorrow at the jars and dis
cords and the uncharities of this mortal life, and
for every sweet kindness, for every loving help
fulness, for every patience and for every self
denial or selfsacrifce we shall lift up thanks to
Almighty God.
Central India Advoeate The absolute un-
selfshness of Chrsts character is, indeed its
unique charnl. His own life is sef-denial
throughout and he makes similar spirit the
test OF all healthy religious life. 1t is he who
said, ''ft is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive," who reminds us that life, like the wheat
yields fruit only by its own dying, who gave us
tire ideal of life in his absolute self oblivion
We feel instinctively that this gospel of love
alone is divine, and that we cannot withhold our
homages from the only perfectly unselish life
ever seen on earth
Rev. DR.. G. ID. Hartranft, professor of church
history at Hartford Theological Seminary, will
spend year of research in the interests of the
Schwenckfeld Society This is a body of some
200 families living near Philadelphia, resem-
a nj hell of fa
and the sole surviving followers of Prof. Casper
Won Schwenckfeld, contemporary of Luther
aRd a noted lay reformer. DR.. Hartranft's
mission is to collect manuscripts bearing upon
the religious movement originated by the Ger
man, and thus to make more clear his place as a
progenitor of the liberty of the Protestant
Church.
1t is common saying if it is nota common be-
lief, that Christianity, so far as it represents
truth and faith. is on the decline. All who are
SO disposed 10 believe viii do we'll to read treat
Use published by DR.. Dorchester, who shows that
there has been vast increase in church member
ship throughout America during the past genera
ton According TO his estimate, there were in
1880 over ten millions in the membership of the
evangelical churches of the country, an increase
over the year 1850 of more than six and a hall
millions. The Doctor gives some interesting
figures, also, regarding the progress and prosper
ity of the Catholic Church.
In the new Hymnal of the Methodist Church
occurs, unuer oOJ, the grand DaLLe hymn OF the
reformation beginning:
Fear not O little flock the foe
informally seeks your overthrow;
Dread not his rage and power
What though your courage sometimes faints?
This seeming triumph Ger God S saints
Lasts but little hour.
This hymn was written in prose by King
Gustavus Adolphas and put into verse by Jacob
Fabricius ID. D., the Kings chaplain, just after
the Kings victory at Leipsic. Gustavus sang il
battle Of Isltzen in 1882 In this battle Gustavus
was slain, but his army was victorious
Christian missions are beginning to produce
really practical moral fruit in India. DIR. Nor
risen, for many years engaged in mission work
~ that country in connection with the English
Presbyterian Church, writes in most eneeur
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