The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20

Review for the quarter-in accordance with
the wishes of each individual school
Religious Notes.
The aggregate circulation of the publications
of the American Baptist Publication Society was
Is, $50, 900 for the current year.
According to the Baptist Year book, there are
1000 students preparing for the ministry in the
various schools of the denomination.
Monsgnor Renter, a preiate of the PGpe's
household and an eminent writer and preacher
has abjured Catholicism and joined the English
Episcopal Church at Rome
There is not single heather to day in Fiji.
Out of the population of liz, 000 no fewer than
100000 are adherents of the church; the others
belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
Archbishop Gibbons will receive the cardinals
hat on June 80, the twenty fifth anniversary of his
years of age, and will be one Of the youngest
members of the Sacred College.
Bishop Whipple protestant Episcopal), of
Minnesota, during the past year has delivered
45 sermons and addresses and oficiated in 100
different places, scattered all the way from Mon
tana to Florida. No sinecure, that.
sit is impossible" says Bishop F. D. Hunting
don, that any denomination built on a dogma
or group of dogmas and not on the fact of the
life of God manifest in the person and acts Of
Christ. should represent Christianity"
AS an illustration of the gradual weakening Of
the long established habits of Indian society, it
Is remarked that many more respectable native
women, unaccompaned by men, now use the
street-cars in Calcutta than even year ago.
The Rev. Dr. William Fl. Roberts, librarian
of Princeton Theological Seminary and stated
clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly.
has been unanimously elected to the chair of
practical theology in Lane Theological Seminary,
Ohio, to succeed the late Rev. DR.. James Eells.
At the American Congress Of Churches, Rev.
I(r I,pnn ard Rob tain a1 fho pinin
that in the apostolic period all the Christians IN
any city constituted single church organiza-
ton. I'VE read of the churches of ASIA" he
said, "but never of those in Corinth or Ephesus."
All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction which thou canst not see
All discord harmony not understood;
All partial evil universal good
And spite of pride, in erring reason Spite
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
A native of Madagascar who studied medicine
in Edinburgh, and returned home, has
seventy young men studying under him and
large class of women whom he is training for
nurses. He is in great favor with his Queen,
and is about to marry the Prime Minister'S
daughter.
That was sweet reply of the little girl found
busyng at the ironing table smoothing the towels
and stockings Isn't that hard work for the
little arms!" was asked. A look like sunshine
came into her face as she glanced toward her
hard work when I do it for mamma" she said
softly.
The death is announced of Mr. Frederick
George Masten aged eighty years, at Long SUIT
ton, Lincolnshire. He was the plaintiff in the
famous lawsuit which elected the first authori
tative declaration of the validity of nonconform-
ist baptism as qualification for Christian burial
in consecrated ground under the rites of the
Church of England.
The Christian Leader says: fTo thoroughly
cure scrofua it is necessary to strike directly at
the root of the evil This is exactly what -
does by acting upon the blood, thoroughly cleans
ing it of all impurities, and leaving not even a
faint of scrofula in the vital fluid. Thousands
who have been cured of scrofula by - testify
to its wonderful blood purifying qualities. Sold
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Northwest Indiana will be interested in the
following note from Rev Alfred Hummer,
Charlottesville, Ind: ''The session of the North
west Indiana Conference has been changed to
Frankfort Ind, where Rev. j. H. Hollingsworth,
who is pastor will entertain the conference hand
somey This change is made necessary by the
fact that we are building $25, 900 church. which
cannot be dedicated until November. We re-
greet not to have the pleasure of entertaining the
conference yet we thank God for the cause of
the change thus announced
The London Times's correspondence Madrid
says the tide of feeling against the priesthood in
Spain still keeps rising. being powerfully aided
long been felt by all true Roman Catholics in
the country that the immortality which has
reached an almost incredible point in their re-
ligious teachers must be swept away. The fear
of damaging the apostolic church has kept
them silent Recent events have bresaen this
treacherous calm, and storm that will shake
the church to its foundation appears imminent.
The work of restoring the. ancient Luther
House in Mansfield is nearly completed While
scarcely year ago the dilapidated building pre-
sented anything but a pleasing sight, the scene
of the great reformers childhood has by this
time, with careful use of the material on hand.
been repaired so as to conform with historical
tradition not only, but to become also an orna-
ment of the town and a benefaction to its in
habitants and the people of the peighborhood.
The Luther House will, when furnished, become
the home of a sisterhood Of ''diakonissen," who
are thenceforth to nurse the sick and aid the
poor and the needy.
The Young Women's Christian Association
of New York has grown in ten years to mag
nifcent institution 1t is now completing a
handsome home of its own, which will be occu-
pied in September. It will contain library,
reading room, class-rooms, and all the latest i'm
in photography, type-writing commercial
arithmetic, bookkeeping. machine and
hand-sewing. cutting and fitting, photo
coloring and drawing, and bureaus for
obtaining situations and work for seam
stresses. Last year instruction was given to
more than six hundred girls, 1900 situations
were secured, and over ST 300 was paid to seam
stresses for work. The protection and moral
elevation of girls runs through all the purposes
of the association