The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01
Religious Notes.


The Presbyterian Church has twelve physi-
clans in China
Cologne Cathedral has cost to finish, since 1910,
when the work was seriously rebegun, more
than 50. 600. 600.
The first book in the Congo language has inst
been printed in Sweden, and is translation of
the gospel of John.
William r. Seward: The whole hope of hui
man progress is suspended OH the ever growing
influence of the Bible.
A floating paragraph says there is not church
within fifty miles of ST. Lucie, Fla, and hun
dreds of people in that region never heard a SER
mon.
Bishop Ryle continues, in the face of High
church protests to fraternizewith Presbyterian
ism. He preached lately to a large audience in
the Established Church at Pitlochry, Scotland
The Church Missionary Society reports that
its converts in China all stood firm under the re-
cent trying ordeal. In the Fuhkien province
the mission has added about five hundred to It's
number in the past year.
st. Thomas For what is it to thee, whether
that man be such such, or whether this M an
do or speak this or that9 Thou shalt not need to
answer FOR others. but shalt give account for
myself. Wherefore dost thou entangle thyselfq
Berlin has over one million adherents of the
evangelical faith, and yet has but thirty eight
churches and thirteen chapels, with a combined
seating capacity of less than fifty thousand. It's
Justice to all the work thrust upon it.
At the general convention of the Universalist
Church, held last week in Brooklyn, n Y. the
annual report of the trustees showed 891
parishes, SO. 223 church members so, 279 Sunday
schools and property worth So, 90l, 1863. The
contribution for the yeer was about 81, 00O 600
Brooklyn has long been called 1.-The City of
Churches" but Bishop Littlejohn shows, in a
carefully prepared statistical address. that the
city has only one place of worship for every 2 ga
people He claims that at least onethird of the
population is unreached by any means of relig-
ious effort
The Prime Minister of Prince Alexander and
many of the intelligent residents of European
Turkey are graduates of Robert College, at Con-
stantinope; and it is said that that institution is
the source from which Bulgarian people have
drawn the spirit and the intelligence to rise and
reassert their nationality.
Rev George Muller's forty sixth annual report
OF his Bristol orphan houses, England acknowl-
edges more than 5000 600 in gifts the last year.
He has maintained eightytive Sunday and day
schools devoted $50, 900 to missionary work, and
more than one hundred thousand Bibles and
Testaments have been sold given away. Mr..
Muller is eighty years of age.
In recent work of travels in India there is an
interesting account of visit to Nazareth vii
lage about twenty miles from the town of Ten
neyelley, where the work of Indian missions
NAV perhaps be seen at its best. Nazareth is a
village of about twelve hundred people The
congregation at the mission chapel numbers
about eight hundred. The communicates in the
district number 1,264-more than one-fourth OF
the total Christian population.
When Vestryman Green bowed his head to
read the responses of the litany, last Sunday he
was very drowsy indeed and he had repeated
Lord have mercy upon us miserable sinners
but three times when he fell fast asleep His
wife nudged him with her parasol without sue
cess. When the minister reached. And now
seventeenthly, my beloved brethren, Vestrymar
Green awoke, and, being unconscious of the
lapse of time, responded in sonorous and fer
vent voice, Lord have mercy upon US miserable
sinners"
According to the Central Presbyterian. Phila
delphia is tho leading town in the United States
for Sunday school work. In that city there are
555 Sunday schools with l55 3ls scholars and 15
1893 teachers, in all one-ffth of the entire popu
lation. But according to the Philadelphia Pres
byteri;r, pastors complain that the house OF
God X half deserted; and is it surprising when
onethird of the 779. 900 Sunday scholars
and teachers in the Presbyterian Church are
not hearing the word preached or learning the