The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-25
READING FOR THE SABBATH.


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! nas sent to Queen Victoria small pillow made
u srom spears, swords and dirks.
- Let us be content to work.
TO do the thing can and not presume
e. b. Browning.
The Congo Mission Of the American Baptist
Missionary Union has suffered a considerable
less In the destruction of the depot of supplies
at Palaballa by fire.
DIR. j. B. AlcFerrin, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has signifed his intention OF re-
firing from the Office of book agent at the next
general conference of his church.
At a young ladess seminary, recently, during
an examination in history, one of the pupils was
Intercepted thus: Mary. did Martin Luther
die natural deathQn NO. was the reply, he
was accommodated by bull"
a clergyman in Norwich. Conn, seeing many
Of his parishioners drowsy, paused awhile. and
then said: Il come now to the third head Of my
discourse, TO which ask the serious and candid
attention of all who are not asleep
No sweeter refrain ever came in among the
discords Of this sorrowing world than the words
Of Jesus: Let not your heart be troubled Ye
believe in God, believe also in me- Come unto
me, all We that labor and are heavy laden, and /
viii give YOU rest.
An appropriation of funds was made by the
managers of the American Bible Society to the
Missionary Society for its German and Swiss
mission, amounting to Sc, 1865. Large sales OF
Bibles and tracts are reported from the book
agent in Bremen.
Bishop Asbury: live in patience, in purity and
in the perfect love of God God is my portion
He fills me with pure spiritual life. Ny heart is
ANlelted into holy love, and altogether devoted to
Lord / think we ought modestly to tell
d we feel to the fullest.
XII Madagascar, where as late as 1857, nearly
Il = mo people were put to death for adhering to
theChristian faith. there are now 200 churches
and Il, $50 communicates. The native churches
during the past ten years have given nearly
$1,000, 600 for the spread of the gospel.
1t is not often that great truth which few
persons fully appreciate is so well worded as
this, by Phillips Brooks: mo man has come to
true greatness who has not felt in some degree
that his life belongs to his race, and that what
Goo gives him he gives him for mankind"
The news comes from the Syrian Protestant
College at Beirut that there is religious move
ment among the students such as never has
been known in the history of that mission. At
q meeting January 20, DR.. Jessup writes, forty
students stood up to express their resolution to
serve the Lord.
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will hold their annual spring meeting in ST.
Louis, beginning on Thursday, May IA, and
closing on the Monday following. All the bish-
ops will be present except Bishop Hurst, absent
IN Europe on official duty, and Bishop Fowler at
San Francisco.
Nashville Advocate: If we love person we
ike to think about him. We like to hear about
please him. We like his friends We are jeal-
Gus about his name and honor. We like to talk
20 him. We like to be always with him. Does
this describe your feeling toward the Lord Jesus
Christ?
Said DR.. Paul Chadbourne to Dr. Mark Hop
kins, shortly before his death: II don't like to
speculate about heaven. AS l grow older, it
seems more irreverent; but l cannot help feeling
that even a sanity life, without personal aims,
and purposes, and action. and achievement,
could ho MD No mr. ho
eanctiied ambition"
Let the woes and sins Of the world urge you
to train your children to save it, Can you en-
dure the thought that another whole generation
Of heather shall march in slow procession across
the stage of life, and plunge unwarned and un-
enlightened into the abysss Yet SO it must be if
the young be not trained to save them. The
destiny of the world hangs on the children of the
church.
The general committee March 81 of the
Church Missionary Society of England have de-
cided, if GOD give the men and means, to COM
mence an Arabia mission by occupying Alden.
It's suitability as church missionary society
station arises from its unique position as Brit
ish possession in the heart of the Mohammedan
world in which the church missionary society is
8 so deeply interested
American Protestants have given four colleges
to the Turkish empire Robert College, at Con-
stantinope; the Central Turkey College, at
Aintab; the Syrian College, at Beirut. and the
sionares have been laboring in India upwards
of seventy years. the first college representing
American iberality is yet to be established.
North India should have such an institution
Thou didst reach forth Thine hand and mine enfold;
walked, and sank not on the storm vexed sea;
But not so much that | on Thee took hold
As by Thy hold on me.
find walk love- but ah the whole
OF love is but my answer, Lord, to Thee
Lord, Thou vert long beforehand with my soul,
Always Thou lovedst me.
Three new bishops of the Church of England
are hearty supporters of the temperance move
nent within that body. The Temperance
Record regards the appointment of DR.. Temple
to the see of London as "a powerful accession to
the moral strength of the metropolis" and adds
chat he will be sincerely and cordially welcomed
by all classes of Londoners, as we'll as by his
fellow-laborers in the temperance movement"
An English religious publication calls attention
to needed reform in religious services at the ex-
ecution of criminals, and demands the abolition
Of the ''gruesome farce of reading the burial
service over the culprt, as he is marched from the
cell to the gallows. The burial service, says the
writer, is meant for the edifcation and consola-
tion of the living mourners, not for the benefit
of the corpse, land it is just little too absurd
to call upon the hangman, the wardens, and the
reporters to be comforted for the loss of the
murderer who is about to be removed"
The Catholic missions in the Rocky Mountain
are. it appears, being attended with very consd-
cradle success. One of the latest outcomings
- of these missions rs arrangement according
70 which six Indian boys are to be taken to
1freland during the coming summer to be edu-
led for the priesthood in the missionary college
lately established near Limerick. If the young
men should show a liking for the work with
becoming self-denial and perseverance. they will
enter into holy orders and return to their native
West to labor among those of their own
The General Conference of the United Breth-
rem Church will convene at Fostoria O.. May
IA and continue its session about two weeks 1t
is the highest deliberative body of the demon
nation it represents. and has power to change
and make laws for its government. 1t will be
composed of 40 members, who are elected from
the different annual conferences Among the
business of the conference will be the election of