The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19
Religious Notes,

IH0 american odpIlSG missionary Union re-
Gently sent seventeen missionaries to their fields
IN India, the largest number sent from Boston
at one time by any society.
Mr.. Sturgeon says of the Salvation Army: eff
It were wiped out of London FIVE thousand extra
policemen could not fill its place in the repres-
zion of crime and disorder"
Mrs Glenn Studebaker of South Bend has
given to Milburn Memorial Church, of that city,
new parsonage of nine rooms all complete
with gas and water and furnace fixtures.
Take heart-the Waster builds again
charmed life old Goodness hath;
The tares may perish---out the grain
Is not for death.
Archdeacou Farrar recently spoke out strongly
against ceremonialism, and mplored his hearers
not to put the church in the place of Christ, nor
TO confess their sins to person calling himself
priest.
Archdeacon Farrar was recently the guest Of
the Congregational board of London and West
minister and made an address How far.
and on what grounds. can Christian communions
approach each other with view to co operation"
The Young Mems Missionary Association con
fected with the BAPTIST Union Of England and
Wales has offered prizes for essays on India, /"
africa" and China" The avowed object is to
interest the young men Of the denomination In
she work of foreign missions.
Rev. George F. Pentecost says in the latest
number of his own magazine that "160 churches
in Massachusetts reported not solitary CONVEX
two each" This" continues the reverend
writer, reveals a spiritual condition bordering
on DEATH"
Indiana Advocate: Our readers will be pleased
to learn that the venerable widow OF the late
Augustus Eddy, living with her daughter, Mrs
SAnrners, in Washington, is in excellent health,
at the advanced age of eighty-six She has
many friends in Indiana for her own sake, as
well as her husbands.
Spurgeon: One said to me the other day,
"The current of thought does not seem to run in
the current of evangelical religion" WELL" /
said, II should not believe in evangelical religion
an atom the more il the current of thought did
run that way. We do not believe according to
the counting of heads"
''You never get to the end of Christs words,
said Dean Stanley There is something in
they pass into laws, they pass into doctrines,
they pass into consultations; but they never pass
away, and after all the use that is made of them
they are still not exhausted"
The Gospel Banner suggests the union of Uni
versasts and Unitarans. Probably ninety nine
out OF everyyhundred Universaists of to-day, it
says, are Unitarians in sentiment and, judging
By recent developments it would be safe to es
Innate that about the same proportion lleavne
out the radical aud agnostic element) of Uni
tarians are Universalists in sentiment
Swing inward, gates! till the morning
Shall paint the brown mountains in gold,
Till the life and the love of the New Time
Shall conquer the hate of the Old;
Let the face and the hand of the Master
No longer be hidden from view
Nor the lands He prepared for the many
Be trampled and robbed by the few.
james G. clark
The pious John Newton said: II was once in
large company where very severe things were
Spoken of Mr. W, when one person season.
ably observed that though the Lord was pleased
to effect conversion edfcation by variety of
means, he had never known anybody convinced
hia haatr
This was about thirteen years ago. and it has
been on my mind a useful hint ever since"
The McAll Mission, of Paris. needs $40. 900 to
complete the year without debt. "How admir-
ablea says the Rev. Dr. Patton, ''are the dis
position and influence of the men and women
whose habit Of life it is to be CHEEKY and charit-
able The two qualities are generally found to-
gether, and not only make welcome sure for
their possessors, wherever they go or stay, but
endow them with power to carry sunshine into
dark places dispelling clouds of gloom and dis
content and forebodng from other minds less
happily constituted"
Miss Dodge, the niece of Gail Hamilton. has
gone to ken wood" near Albany to enter the
sanity ranks of the Religious of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus" Her family, who are all of the
orthodox, stern minded New England type in
their beliefs, were strongly opposed to her act:
Gail Hamilton alone of them all sanctioned Fer
being allowed to make her own choice. Miss
Dodge is a sweet interesting GIRL hichy-cul.
tured, very frail looking and spirituelle but in
reality not delicate She has an undoubted .syo-
cation" for a religious lfe
Down at Philadelphia they saw that the Rev.
DR.. McVickar has gone for an Oriental tour be-
cause of the rivalry between the Low Church
and the High Church parties A few weeks AGO
ST. Clements the fashionable High Church.
sent its priest, Father Maturin, abroad I'm.
mediately Holy Trinity, the fashionable Low
Church. decided that its minister Dr. McVickar.
must go too And members of both conerega-
n ar fOar tic r,n
church on the Avenue de rAlna, Paris. urgipg
1t to the services of their respective favor
ties on their passage through that CITY,
For some years past mission work in the Ea st
Indies has been taking more practical shane
The acute Hindoo mind was not to be satisfied
with mere talk. Besides, by the old system.
women could not be reached Hence the zena-
missions, established by the different
churches at different centers Hence, too. the
scheme for establishing hospitals for women.
originated under the auspices of Queen Victoria
and Lord Dnfenn. The hospital for women at
Ailahaoad. fruit or the lastmentioned scheme,
has been placed in charge of Miss Seward M
D., a member of the Presby mission in
India.
Recently mention was made of the cruel
treatment to which Lutherans were subjected
IN the Baltic provinces Of Russia. In striking
contrast to the policy pursued toward the Luth-
Grams Is that which has just been reported from
south Russia. The "Stundites," religious sect.
were prosecuted by the police for refusing TO
break mp prayer-meeting at the residence of
one of the sectaries. The accused were acout-
ted, first, by the local magistrate then by the
Court of Assze OF the district. on the ground
that the public order had not been disturbed by
the assemblage id question. The Senate has
since confirmed the decision eff the lower courts
The year is dying ay, is dead
But yet DEFENDERS breath
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