The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

Wnlie the BOARD, Ln.Ougl them ana IN OLner ways
has scattered IN missionary work more than
10, 600 volumes Of choice religious reading, and
has gratuitously distributed nearly 10, 000, 600
pages of tracts and periodicals.
Officers of the board of foreign missions have
examined the receipts and expenditures OF the
board to April IL, and having previously ascer-
tanned By telegraph the amounts yet receivable
from the various woman's boards they have
reached the conclusion that unless churches and
individual donors shall exceed the gifts Of the
last half of April last year, the board must re-
port debt of 100000. DR.. Arthur Mitchell
and others make an appeal for increased collec-
tions in behalf of the AIS missionaries the
American board has sent abroad.
The Rev. Canon Rawlinson an admitted au-
thority on all questions relating to Biblical
antiquities, has contributed an article to the
Interpreter on Biblical Topography in which
he discusses the various theories advanced re-
garding 1.-The site of Paradise" Canon Rawlin-
son believes, with the German Kalisch that a
distinct locality was before the mind of the
writer of the book of Genesis, and he gives it as
his judgment that the locality was In Assyrla.
The theory is not new but it has for some time
time been in less favor than of old.
In many quarters there is strong disposition
In favor of ecclesiastical union, and in some al
rections where it seems hardly possible. There
is no essential doctrinal differences between
Presbyterians and Methodists, yet their ways
are so different that it cannot be said that they
have any strong affinity for each other. There
are those who take a different view OF the
matter. DR.. Grant principal of the Presbyte-
rian college, Kingston. Canada, contends that
there is no inseparable barrier against an organ
ic union of the Methodist and Presby terian
churches in the Dominion, for instance.
Assyrian relics will form feature of the com
ing exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum. The
institution has recently purchased from Mr.. Der
nard Maimon collection of Chaldean and AS
syrian cylinders. One of them is a terra Gotta OF
Nehuch nj
diameter, and measuring about two inches at the
ends. 1t has been copied and translated by
Father j. F. X. OConnor, Of Woodstock The
translator considers it of value not SO much from
any new historical fact revealed, but because it
is the first unpublished original which has found
its way from the ancient empire of Babylon to
New York city.
A somewhat remarkable movement is at pres
ent proceeding in the universities Of Scotland.
The movement dates from a visit made to the
bridge men-Studd and Stanley Smith-who
have since gone out as missionaries to China. The
earnest addresses of these young men, and the
sacrifices which it was known they were about
to make produced deep impression upon the
Edinburg students Revival meetings were
commenced on a small scale, but the audience
has steadily increased, until now, Odd-fellows'
Hall-a place capable of containing one thousand
or more-is crowded every Sabbath evening
The excitement has found its way to Glasgow,
where, as in Edinburg, the students of the diff
ferent denominations have united, and where
large meetings are held.
From an old publication of the records of
1910. concerning the Methodist denomination in
the United States, it appears that in that year
there were Ia, 500 church members, including
81, 724 colored people, OF these latter, the Phil
adelphia Conference furnished the largest num-
Der, 10, ia, and the South Carolina Conference
the next largest, 5000. The Philadelphia Con-
ference also had the largest number of white
nhorc ov1 po1% %ho noy%
Is, 1854. There was an increase of membership
over the year 1909 of IL ,52Z Bishop Albany
was in Office then. The presiding elder of the
Boston district was George Pickering, and of
the New London district, Elijah Hedding. To
show how the Methodist Church has gained
since 1910, we may add that the total member
ship now is 100000; their authorized preach
ing number, 27,000