The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-30
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Religious Notes.

When q man is Wrongeu anu IosSlVeS IL dill,
there is one heart, at least, which has peace, and
that Is his own
Clothes attract attention, but character wins
love- It is not best to put all you 'have and
are" into wardrobe.
The Woman's Board of Missions, Reformed
Church in America, raised 1000 last year, and
paid the money into the general church mission
treasury.
DR.. j. B. McFerrin, the non-episcopal grand
father of Southern Methodism will deliver the
commencement sermon at Huntsville, Ala,
female college, May 81
The Oldest Reformed Dutch church in the
world is said to be in London, near the Bank of
England It was built in 1913 by the Earl of
Hereford and Essex and is built of stone in
pointed Gothic
Pa, who was Shylock? Pater familias with a
look OF surprise and horror)-'Great goodness,
boy; you attend church and Sunday school every
week. and don't know who Shylock was! Go
and read your Bible, sir"
A religion, says Howe, that never sufices to
govern man, will never suffice to save him;
that which does not sufficiently distinguish one
from the wicked world, will never distinguish
him from perishing world.
The agent of the United Brethren printing es-
adjustment reported to the general conference
that cash had been received in four years
amounting to 1907, 157, and that there had been
expended 1902, sic. The total assets amount to
1920, 35S, The Religious Telescope has II, l36
subscribers.
Chicago Current s'It will be no fault Of the
forty thousand citizens who went cut to
cowboy show last Sunday at Chicago if before
the end of the next decade they shall not be all
at work seven days in week. 1t is illogical in
the workingman to offer temptations to the
greed of corporations Sunday is needed as a
day of rest"
The Rev. Dr. Thoburn has been appointed by
Bishop Hurst general evangelist for India this
year, and for the four hot months will be pastor
of the Union Church at Simla, where the Vice
roy of India and his council spend six months of
every year. AS the cooler weather comes on, he
will labor in various churches of both the North
and South India Conferences
It is estimated that in the United States there
are 900 organized Universalist societies, which
have about 766 churches and 700 ministers.
About 10000 families members of the de-
nomination, and their church property is
valued at ST. 900. 000 The doctrines were first
preached by John Murray in l770 and the first
church was organized at Gloucester, Mass, in
1779.
c. II. Haager: Truth and falsehood are not
each others opposites as essences of equal being,
for falsehood is mere negation-the shadowy
semblance of the truth, which, when discov-
cred, vanishes into the nothing that it really is.
Truth is such virtue that without it strength
Is weakness, justice tyranny, humility pride,
and piety hypocrisy; for in these truth is all in
all. On truth. then, found thy being
''The Presbyterian makes, on the authority
of the Rev. William Bryant, the following
statements Taking the thirty-fou American
cities with over so, 600 population, we find that
the Methodist Episcopal Church is largest in
seventeen; the Presbyterian in nine; the Baptist
in four; the Congregational in three, New
Haven, Lowell, and Worcester; and the Episco-
pal in one, New York, its natural home But
there are eleven cities, including the four with
ever 500, 900 population, where the Presbyterian
Church stands second in membership.
Professor Drummond, author Of the popular
work, Natural Law in the Spiritual World" is
described by one who heard him at the Seton
Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, where he
was conducting revival mission" as one who
''has not lost the dew of his youth; we should
say he has not reached his fortieth year. He
has q tall, upright, manly form, clear, open
face, a charming simplicity of STYLE and a ring
of sincerity in his tones that is prepossessing.
His uttefance was not sermon but an evangel-
istic address-the worst kind of utterance to re-
port"
Canon Liddon is now unquestionably the
greatest preacher in the Church of England
The canons of st. Pauls preach alternately for
term. At the last of his sermons, a recent dis
patch from London says: 1.-THE attendance on
Sunday afternoon at the last of Canon Liddon's
sermons for the present residence was larger
than on any previous occasion this month, the
number of men of all ranks and positions, many
Of whom had to stand all the service, is remark
able. To the credit of the great man, be it said
that it is on the power of mind truth, and per-
sonality, and not in any part on tricks that his
pre- eminence depends.
Perhaps the most striking event in ecclesias-
teal circles, lately, is the change made in the
constitution of the United Brethren Church in
reference to secrecy BY vote of II to AZ the
general conference of that church, in session at
Fostoria, o., so changed the law that instead of
being antagenistic to all secret societies only
such are to be opposed in the future as are com
posed "of persons holding principles and laws at
variance with the word of God as evidenced in
individual Life, and infringing upon the natural,
social political or religious rights of those out
side its pale" The progress of the United
Brethren Church has heretofore been greatly
retarded by its anti-secrecy laws. Hereafter
persons belonging to nearly all secret societies
can become members Of this church. Those
whom the above rule excludes certainly ought
net to be permitted to hold membership in any
Christian church.
The Nashville Christian Advocate has words
of the highest commentator for the religious
work of Sam Jones-'not the Rev. Samuel p
Jones, not the Rev. DR.. Jones' but the peoples
man, "Sam Jones'" The Advocate saws all
classes in the city crowd to hear him, and all are
strangely moved by him. Luxurious men and
Gsl1cate who have not seen a sunrise for years
leave their beds at dawn and hurry to the 'gos-
pei tent workingmen with their dinner buckets
In their hands stop to see and hear this apostle
messed. and the vast multitude are convinced
and melted, and FIVE hundred sinners rise to
their feet and pledge themselves to begin the
Christian life Then the crowd flock to the open
churches near at hand, where pentecostal power
is manifested in the conversion of hundreds of
souls A new and strange fervor in the exhor-
tations, songs and prayers attest that these are
the days of the Son Of Man in Nashville The
whole city is stirred. Men who have not heard
. sermon in twenty years 60 to hear Sam Jones.
Noted gamblers sit and listen with flovno Ton PC
A drunkard sits weeping by his careworn and
sadfaced wife in her faded garments, and de-
clares his purpose to make new start in life.
Ministers and members of different denomina-
tons are fused in the glow of the heavenly fire
that has fallen upon the city, and are swept on
ward in one current of holy love and jov."
Obedience.
It is the obedience of the heart which God
loves Outward form means nothing to him.