The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-18
Religious Notes.


Rev. Thomas Harrison, the evangelist is rest
tng at his home in Dorchester his voice having
Jailed for the time being through overuse.
'"rhe fooishness of preaching" mentioned in
the Scriptures. is not the same thing as foolish
preaching He that winneth souls is WISE"
The New York Independent says: ut is high
time that government of the saloon, by the sa-
loon. and for the saloon, should perish from the
earth"
Thomas Wngfeld: Except man has God
dwelling in him, he may be, may become,
capable of any crime within the compass of hu-
man nature.
A leading Unitarian paper says that there are
more Unitarians in the Episcopal Church than
in all the churches which bear the name of
Unitarian.
Four hundred baptisms and 1900 conversions
are reported in Russia as the work of two mis-
sienaries under the Baptist Missionary Society
during the past two years.
nippon Sesho Notomo" Japanese Friends Of
Che Bbe is the name of society which num-
bers l. 800 members each of whom is pledged to
read daily portion of the Scriptures
Mr.. G. P. Huntington will erect chapel in Har-
winton, Conn, in memory of his mother, who
lived in that town. The chapel will be of granite,
and will cost from s15. 900 to $4,000.
The Protestant Episcopal Church Temper
ance Society has sent letters to the bishops of
the various dioceses requesting them to arrange
for special temperance services on the first Sun
day In November
The Baptists in Australia are increasing both
In numbers and influence. One Baptist gentle
man of Melbourne has promised 1925. 900 for
missions, provided others will make up like
amount This is to run for five years. There
are about 140 Baptist ministers in Australia.
In the Wesleyan places of worship in London,
there are 115,000 sittings and lis ministers en-
ploved in pastoral work. and yet they go es-
tablishing missions there. At recent meeting
trua lvad To aica@ for hat
and $40. 900 was subscribed at the first meeting
BY way of Lisbon, Portugal a pitiful tale
comes about Bishop Taylor and his missionaries
We have better news, and straghter. They are
doing well as they any else had any
right to expect The probability OF their final
success increases with every month they live
there.
Mr. d. L. Moody says about long prayers: 'If,
when Peter found himself sinking in the waves
of Galilee he had insisted on putting before his
petition, Lord, save me- the regular prayer
meeting roundabout introduction, he would have
been forty feet under water before he could have
asked of the Lord the help he needed"
The Presbyterian Church of the Puyallul En-
dian reservation is two miles from Tacoma, in
Washington Territory 1t is neat white build
ing, and has native Indian pastor. There
Indian elders. After the pastor has finished his
sermon these elders make short speeches. The
services all in the language of the Indians.
more. The church mission sent some mission
aries, some years ago. to the court of King
Mtesa, at his own request. They were received
gladly enough, but it was not long until the
King lapsed into his paganism. One after the
ether the missionaries fell victims to the fatal
African climate Now it is learned that three of
the little band of converts have suffered martyr
dom for the faith. Central African missions
have so far been singularly unfortunate.
The 25th of this month will be observed in
some of the churches as prisoners Sunday"
Good people who not in Jail will have OPP
portunity to think of their unfortunate brethren
who are behind the bars Ministers are re-
quested to preach on prison reform. with view
to lettering the condition of the haploss convcts.
On the corresponding Sunday last year about
two hundred clergymen preached on the subject.
The cause OF prison reform is one which most
people think but little about, unless they have
friends or relatives IN Jail.
A correspondent of the Christian Register fur
nishes description of picturesque Church Of
England chaplain that he came across one Sun
day in Switzerland. 1t was an outdoor service;
1.-The white surplice against the messy rocks,
the red hood of his theological degree, the cen
trial parting of his hair above the home of his
thought the delicate hands and the rings there
OF. with the scarlet cloth of the extemporized
altar before him. would have pleased any artistic
eye Around him. living stones We were
grouped to receive the living word"
That was not bad idea of the Anglican
bishop OF Algonla, whose diocese covers the
Upper Lake region of Canada. During the past
GUNNER he chartered vessel, and, with
another clergyman skirted the northern coast Of
Lake Huron and the Georgia bay, a pious
quest for isolated settlements along those rock
bound coasts in which scattered members Of the
Church of England might be found in need of
the sympathy and public and private minIstra-
tons OF their own communion" The good
clergymen did some effective pastor work, and
had long and glorious season of fishing between
times
In 1885, in the first year of the reign of James
III, and just three years before the famous revo
luton and the advent to power of William and
Mary Ave men-Peter Giilies John Bryce,
T1,aiaas ysrrg. William Fiddson and John Bru-
sjng--wS:c eli hanged for adherence to the COW