The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-05
Religious Notes.


The mind doth shape itself to its own wants
Aid can bear all things.
Joanna Bailey.
One Lutheran missionary and 100. 900 gallons
of New England rum recently sent to
Congo in the same ship.
Cease to lament for that thou can st not help
And study help for that which thou lament'st;
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
Shakespeare.
The report submitted to the recent triennia'
synod of the Moravians showed Sc ministers, s.
682 attendants, s, 256 communicates 4, l35 Sun
day school scholars 500 teachers.
Rev. DR.. j. NJ. Buckley, editor of the New
York Christian Advocate, and Miss Adelaide S.
Hill were married Monday, Aug. 90. at the
residence of the BRIDES father, Dr. L. H. Hill,
Dover, n. II.
Rev. DIR. John Hall is to have new parson
age next to his church, the Fifth avenue Presby-
terrain, in New York 1t will cost $50, 900, and
DR.. Hall will have the of 1t in addition to his
$4,000 year.
1t is calculated that the money spent in drink
in the United Kingdom would pay not only the
rent Of all the houses in the kingdom, from the
Queens castle at Windsor to the cabin Of the
poorest peasant. but also the rent of every farm,
and would leave a balance OF q million sterling
Dr. Dowden, the principal of the Episcopal
Theological College, has been elected to fill the
vacant see of Edinburg 1t was to this Office
Canon Liddon was recently elected. One of the
Canons reasons for refusing was that he thought
the position should be filled by Scotsman The
Scottish Episcopal Church, unlike the Church of
England, ranks a Dissenting community. II
has state endowment
The Freemans Journal quotes a Congrega-
tional minister as writing to say: II admire the
church for this thing, because / find that it does
not exist in my own church l mean the au-
thority with which your church endows its
priests. am convinced by my own experience
that, without some hold the people other
than that given by merely personal qualities, no
minister can succeed in doing good work"
Phillips Brooks said in a sermon the other
day: when you read the story of yesterdays
defauter fleeing to-day an exile outcast
or sitting gloomily behind his prison bars it is
not with angels innocent WoAder what sin
like his can mean; it is with the understanding
of man who has felt the same temptation to
which this poor wretch has yielded that you de-
plore his fate The worst of men stirs by the
sight of his human sin some sense of what human
:c. 81 C. C. aiafnnsss We too possess"
After long delay successor to the late Bishop
Colenso has been elected in the person of the
Rev. Sir George Cox, the well-known author and
now rector of Scrayingham, York The baron
etcy is Irish, and Sir George is the fourteenth
who has borne the title 1t is noted that the
baronetcy has never yet descended to an eldest
son, and only once to son. Sir George is a
great opponent of the doctrine of endless pun
shment. Tt is thought that some difficulty will
be experienced in finding bishop to consecrate
GIl0 UlSnOp-elecI, as he is not recognized by the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Sir George is fifty
nine years of age
Independent: The Southern Churchman ii
shocked at the idea that a woman should preach
the gospel and administer sacraments, without
one word Of approval from Christ or his apostles
We suspect that Christ ordains them now to do
all the good they can. Even the Roman Catholic
Church yards baptism by woman as valid
and so does everybody else, in certain cases We
would like to know If our contemporary thinks
there is any more sanctty in the Lords supper
than there IS in baptism SO that only one sex is
honorable enough TO administer it. We remem-
Der that our Savior put great deal more en-
phasis on the duty of administering baptism
than he did on the other sacrament
AT the last meeting of the Pastoral conference
held at Strasburg it was agreed to urge the au-
thorities OF the Lutheran Church to rule that ev-
cry theological student, on completing his |
studies, should be required to serve one year as
a curate and at the end of that period TO under |
go an examination in practical theology. Such
an arrangement it is believed, will be benefit |
equally to the young men and to the churches |
The example might be initiated elsewhere with
advantage Young men fresh from the theo- |
logical seminary are not always fitted to manage |
the affairs of church, and good management is |
quite as important as good preaching.
The Independent writes to impress its readers,
and especially ministers, with the necessity of |
expressing Bible ideas in Bible words There is |
no danger, it thinks. of OVERRIDING this but the |
danger Is rather IN the opposite direction. TIE |
article concludes as follows 1.-The Christian oul-
pit especially should guard itself against this |
peril, and hold fast the FORM as we'll as the |
substance, of sound words found in the (
Word OF God making that Word the supreme /
oughly it makes itself biblical pulpit, the more