The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-10
Religious Notes.

Edinburg has 181 churches, of which 124 are
Presbyterian.
The membership in Dr. Talmage's church
numbers 1922.
The Pope. has converted personal presents of
many years into money, and has donated the
proceeds, 100000, to the College of the Propa-
ganda.
gelistic meetings in London During three weeks
services held in DR.. Sinclair Patterson's church
800 professed conversion.
The list of the bishops Of the Protestant Epis-
copal church shows the curious fact that five of
them were born in Ireland, one in Canada, and
nine in New York city.
'.It is not generally known" remarks the
Christian Union, that Mr. Beecher breaches
into large telephone connecting the church
with several of the residences of members"
There are now in this country 800 more Con-
gregational Churches than there were in 1860
and there are only twenty seven more students
IN the theological seminaries now than then.
If sou are thinking of some self-denial, do not
cut off your pleasures for the sake Of mortifying
yourself, but make some sacrifice that VIII help
another. The end of sacrifice is not pain, but
helpfulness.
The Interior: So generally recognized is the
fact that Christianity has brought in new social
law, that the word charity, which expresses the
spirit of the gospel, has come to he used for all
kinds of almsgiving
The Religious Tract Society. by way of COM
memorating the jubilee of the introduction of
Christianity into the Fiji Islands, has sent out
an edition of 5000 bible pictures" for distrbu-
tion among the islanders.
The sale of Bibles, religious books and maga-
zines through the colporteurs of Mr.. Spureeons
church amounted during the year to nearly $45-
600. Seventy men were employed, and
1,600 towns and villages visited
Commenting on the goody -goody stories pub
lshed after their DEATH illustra tive of the ex
cellencies of prominent men, the Christian Index
says: when mans piery can never be seen
except by a post.mortem examination, we have
no confidence in it,
Mr.. Spurgeon has gone to Mentone to recruit
his nervous energies He says: "The brain is
weary and refuses to perform its Office with its
usual ease. A whole day is used to produce the
thought-fabrIc which. in better times, was
woven in half an hour"
Professor Drummond addressed 600 students
at Oxford. on ''Delyerance from the Guilt of
Sin and Deliyerance from its Power He was
listened to with great attention. In the last
sentence he implored them to seek on their
knees, in their own rooms with their Bibles open
before them, the teaching of the Holy Ghost
It is always a hopeful sign when missionary
churches begin to be contributors to the general
fund Such case has just been reported. The
missionary congregation at Antyum, in the New
Hebrldes group, has just sent to Scotland 2285
pounds of arrowroot as its annual contribution
10 che funds of the Free church
The Methodist Woman's Missionary Society in
India, having collected nearly $35 900 for the
purpose. have started newspaper designed es-
pecially for the zenana ladies' 1t is issued fort
nightly from their press at Lucknow in the Urdi
and Hindu languages, and it is proposed to start
= similar paper in Calcutta in the Bengali Ian
guage
The frst ''Working Girls Club, was organized
in New York city less than year ago. Now there
are twelve clubs with twelve hundred members
They aim to supply the working girls in the city
partial substitute for home life, to afford them
facilities for improving their industrial and gem
eral education. aud TO secure TO the members
the practical benefits of cooperation.
Thebaw the deposed and exied King of Bur-
NAH, was according to the Rock. educated by
DR.. Marks, a missionary of the Church of Eng
land. It further states that the King, when
lad. gave great promise of future excellence In
the case of Thebaw. in the case of many 9TH
ers before him, unrestrained authority proved
hig ruin
The death Is announced of the veteran Baptist
nsssionary Of India, Rev. Cephas Bennett, who