The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-03
Religious Notes.

The medical missionaries in east central Afri-
ca have reduced to writing another one of the
African dialects.
An Armenian doctor has been preaching the
: gospel with great success In CHsarea to audien-
ces of eight hundred to one thousand people,
The twohundredth anniversary of the found
ing OF the First Congregational Church of
Nashua, N. H., was celebrated on the 10th inst.
The Lutheran Church Almanac for 1886 re-
turns total Of S62, S31 members of the
Lutheran Church in this country, including Z, 200
In Canada.
Rev M. K. Schermerhorn. the former Uni
tartan minister who essayed to start the religion
of rhe future in New York city, few years ago,
Silas just been ordained deacon in the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
very noble act has just been made public
regarding the Chinese residents Of Singapore,
India Methodist mission has just been estab
lished in that city and the Chinese residents
alone have subscribed to the mission So, 500.
It may not be generally known but it is never
theless true, that there are in Paris forty Prot
sstant churches, and more than 100 Sunday
schools In most Of these schools the lessons
which are studied are the same Els those of the
uniform Series" prevalent in this country
The American Baptist Union has long had a
hourishing mission in South India 1t has been
known as the Teloogan Mission. 1t is now some
fifty years since the mission was established, and
it ia proposed to have a suitable celebration Of
the sem-centennial, atNellore, from Feb. to 10.
The organ question has become burning
question among the Jews on the continent A
Vienna rabbi maintains that the organ is not a
heathenish appliance, that it is proper aid in
worship, and that some of the largest Jewish
congregations in Europe and America have intro
nuced 1t.
Prof. Martin N. Wyckoff, of the Reformed
tDutch) Mission to Japan, has published book
in Japanese for beginners in English compost
ton, in Roman letters, as is now ''the fashion,
in that country "A Japanese boy says the
Illustrated Christian Weekly ''can now learn to
read his language in ten months. instead Of ten
years, as formerly"
The Congregationalist says: ''There are some
prayers In which the speaker seems to have for
gotten that he is addressing any other being, and
which arc rather devout meditations than true
prayers. Sometimes they even include more or
less Dhiosophizing about the causes and reasons
of things. All this is very we'll in its place but
that place 10 rarely when one is attempting to
pray
United Presbyterian: 1t is one Of the
hard things to keep the mind fresh and
elastic when the body is beset by i'll
ness or care, and when the mind itself is tyra-
nized by some oppression. The tendency is to
droop and languish. feeling all the time. per-
haps, that the moodiness thus produced is q
sign of unusual grace But it Is . fault that
pietg tolerates but cannot approve.
The international Committee of the Young
Mems Christian Association has recently issued
q little book, entitled Prayer Meeting Topics
for 1886" containing over three hundred subjects
with appropriate Scripture references. These
topic books have been issued regularly every
year since 1877, and have proved very helpful
and suggestive to the associations as we'll as to
many pastors, and other Christian workers.
1.-THE Independent says 1--WE have asked one
Of the best known New Departure leaders
whether 1t is true as stated in leading news
PAPER that their theology does not allow them
70 sing heartily such hymns 50 Rock Of Ages,