The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29
RELIGIOUS Notes.

The Religious Tract Society, of London, has
translated and published Pilgrims Progress" in
seventy languages.
Evangelist Moody is going to try the power of
gospel exhortation on the hard hearts of the
Harvard students.
Miss Isabella S. Leonard, formerly of New Al
bany, Ind is working as an evangelist at sgd
ney, New South Wales.
1t Is stated on the authority of the London
Times that there are in the Chinese empire more
than half a r million Catholic converts.
A Calcutta paper says that a native woman
has become the editor of a Christian periodical,
which she conducts with remarkable ability and
success.
a Lutheran colony is being formed thirty or
forty miles east of Bismarck, d. Z. Its lands
extend about ten miles along the Northern Pa
eiGc railway.
Lemesle: Life is a slate where all our faults
aye written. Occasionally we rub over i. the
sponge of repentance, that we may commence
writing our faults anew.
The Sunday school of Surry Chapel, London.
established by Rowland Hill in 1885, celebrated
It's centennial Oct. 26. 1t has 700 scholars and
seventy teachers, and %, 600 children have been
members.
National Baptist: Men are weak by reason
of having fallen. They are just where we
should have been but for Gods grace. 1t is for
us to help them, to aid them toward p~enitence
and faith. and love, and a new life.
Let us draw their mantles DER US
Which have fallen in our way;
Let US do the work before us,
CHEEKY, bravely while we may,
Ere that long night-silence cometh, and with us it is
not day.
Whittier.
Mr.. Surgeons church. among it's many other
system of colportage. During the last year its
sales of Bibles, religious books and magazines
amounted to nearly 4 5000. 1t employed sew
enty eight men, who visited more than 1900
towns and villages.
A handsome new chapel has been opened by
natives of Matautu, in the Samoan islands,
which was built entirely of timber from a forest
which had been tabooad as the dwelling place of
one of the heather deities. 1t was a triumph of
their Christian faith over their former supersti-
tious awe.
1t is already announced that the churches of
Norwich have rendered the hospitality of their
city TO the Congregational Union of England
and Wales on the occasion of their meeting next
autumn, and that the of the union
have cordially accepted the invitation. The ar
rsnsement, it is expected, will give great salts
faction.
A lady stood up in New York city a few days
ago TO plead the cause of BAPTIST missions.
Holding out her hands she said, my sisters,
we have come to a crisis in this matter, and we
must make unusal sacrifices to get out" II has
since been ascertained that this very lady had
on her fingers diamonds worth $50. 600 at the
time she made the gesture.
A Japanese chronicle: 1859, arrival of the
first Protestant missionaries; 1866, after seven
years only one baptism; 1872, January-ten ma
tive Christians; 1872, March 10-the first Japa-
nese church organization of eleven men; 1885,
there are 100 Protestant churches, with nearly
5000 members. In Toxic, the capital. alone,
there are tweLty nine churches and ,279 mem
bers.
Hitherto the Presbyterians in Paris have been
contented to hold their services in an upper
room connected with the Church of the Oratoire.
They have just acquired, at q cost of $50. 900. the
church in which the American Episcopalians
were went to worship. The congregation is
usually composed of English. Scotch. Irish and
American Presbyterians. The comfort of the
worshipers will be greatly increased by the ac-
QUESTION of this church.
1.-THE Delaware Avenue of Heaven" was the
advertised title of one Of the sermons of Rev.
DIR. Townsend, of Buffalo, who recently left the
Methodist Church. Delaware avenue in Buffalo
corresponds in style to Fifth avenue in New
York. DIR. Townsend's aim was to give his con-
Rregation a view of the way in which some peo-
pie would put on airs even in heaven, if it were
possible to do so there. DR.. Townsend is ac-
eused by his brethren of being too sensational
lie says they are not progressive enough.
1t would seem sometimes as if a taste for pro-
LESSONS aud occupations ran in the blood. In
connection with the ordination Of the Rev W.
u. Martin, who has just been sci. apart to mis-
sion work in Rajpootana, India, it is noted that
he comes OF a family who have won distinction
in the mission field. His father is a missionary
IN jamaica The late Rev. Gavin Martin and
the late Rev. William Martin, both of whom are
remembered as honored and successful laborers