The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-11
Religious Notes.


J. Fl. Evans: Take your heed. To be near the
life. boat is different from being In il.
If you cannot 20 to God with a broken heart.
90 to Him for one. His holy spirit breaks and
binds up.
DR.. Hamlin, Of the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian
Church, Cincinnati, has accepted the call to the
pastorate Of the Church of the Covenant, the
new Presbyterian church in Washington City.
Two of the city mission halls proposed as q
memorial to the la,e Earl Of SALISBURY in the
poorer districts Of London are already In prep
h~ration, and one other has lately been dedicated.
The efforts of Moody and Sanky at New
Orleans have been very successful. The Times
Democrat says they have awakened such an in
terest in religion as was never known in that
sity before.
A missionary's wife writes from Iaffa that
there is nothing in tAe missionory-boxes that
more delights them than dressed dolls for the
little girls in their schools. They can never have
too many dolls.
The Presbyterians have opened a station at
Merida n ri, a.. the only place Of sYsSn a,ds worship Ssnais'
ton of 400, 600 has long invited the missionary
laborers of the Protestant Church.
Pastor Schneider, Of Bethlehem. now breaches
regularly at Hebron. the ancient city where
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried. The
gospel has not been preached there since 1l87.
when the city fell into the hands of SaIa6in.
Peter Wilson, of Spring Mills, Pa. who died
recently, was said to be the Oldest Sunday school
superintendent in the world. So long ago ss In
1928 he assisted in organizing the Sabbath.school
Of which he was superintendent at the time of
his death.
The statement that the Rev. Leonard W. Ba-
con will retire from the ministry and devote him
self to literary work is denied. IL is said that
he will remain in Philadelphia and do whatever
ministerial service he may find to do, without
pay and without regard to sect
The new Archdeacon of the Niger, the Rev.
Henry johnson. is a colored person, and q good
He is also well versed in French and German,
and has translated the New Testament into sew
oral of the languages of western Africa.
The American Baptist Yearbook for 1886 gives
the following statistics: Churches, g. 53; min
Isters. IL, lsl; total present membership, 2.572.-
tons for education, $112, 259. rs. The increase in
the membership over last year was Ga, 1856
smaller than that of some previous years.
The American congress Of churches for 1886
will be held at Cleveland, o.. May 1921. Gov
ernor Foraker, who is q devoted Methodist, has
accepted an invitation to preside. Among the
%subjectG for discussion are Religion and the
Public Schools," 1.-THE Workingman's Distrust
OF the Church, It's Causes and Remedies"
Rev. G Fl. Sturgeon: Did you ever feel the
JOY Of winning a soul for Christi If so, you will
need no better argument for attempting to
spread the knowledge of His name to every
creature. | tell you there 10 no joy out of heaven
which excels 1.-THE grasp of the hand of one
who says: by your means ! was turned from
darkness to light"
The Austrian government still gives the cold
shoulder to Protestants wherever possible. The
Evangelical Faculty of the University of Vienna
has been experiencing this policy lately. Not
withstanding repeated petitions, the authorities
have refused to allow the Protestant theological
professors to deliver their lectures in the new
university building. and have assigned them
rooms In a rented locality at some distance from
the university. At present there are forty Prot
estant theological students in the university.
The Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff, writing to the In
dependent as to the present status of the ravis-
ion. reports that the Apocrypha of the Old Tes-
lament 10 undergoing a much-needed revision at
the hands OF q volunteer company of the Old and
New Testament revisers, including Bishop
Lightfoot, Prof. Hort, Canon Westcott and DR..
Moulton among others. The American commit
tee has nothing to do with this work. but still
keeps up its organization, and will not dissolve
until its agreement with the university presses
expires.
Canon Farrar is one of the men of our time
who has justified his claim to be heard on most
matters touching morals and religion. His
official labors are conducted in the immediate
neighborhood of one of the lowest sections of
London. Within the shadow of Westminster
there are multitudes of people who are never
inside the walls of any religious Westinghouse.
How are these people to be reached and brought
under gospel influenced Canon Farrar has come
70 the conclusion that the most ~effectual way
would be TO establish q brotherhood of e~vangel-
lists. who would live singly or two by two in the
very midst of the poor, IN obedience, poverty