The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15
Religions Notes.

Emerson: That which each man can do best
none but his Maker can teach him.
God. to remove his ways from human sense,
Placed heaven from earth far.
Milton.
In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless il, and approve it with textl
shakespeare.
Lord. at Thy feet lay Thy gift to me, which then
As a new gift from Thee grateful take agaiE;
Macdonald: The only way to prepare for the
next world is to do the thing God gives us to do
in this world.
Fuller: Sin is to be overcome, not so much
by maintaining direct opposition to it as by
cultivating opposite principles.
Let us be content to work.
To do the thing we can and not presume
To fret because it's little.
e. B. Browning.
Representative Patrick A. Collins of Massa-
chusetts. who has visited Salt Lake City, says
there are no Irish among the Mormons, and few,
if any, Scotch.
love and fear not and Icannot lose
One instant this great certainty of peace.
Long as God ceases not, cannot cease;
must arise.
Helen Hunt Jackson.
A slight erratum was required for an article
in the Christian Advocate of July g. Instead of
Bishop Warburton" read MRS. Darlington" as
author of the proverb. Orthodoxy is my doxy
and heterodoxy is your doxy."
Luther: Good works do not make Christian
for one must be Christian to do good works
The tree bringeth forth the fruit. not the fruit
the tree None is made Christian by works, but
by Christ and being in Christ he brings forth
fruit to Him.
Helps: Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away mist; but by ascending little,
you may often overlook it altogether. So it is
with our moral Improvement; wrestle fercely
with vicious habit. which could have no hold
upon US if we assembled into higher moral at
mosphere.
Mrs. Donald Collyer writes from Aberdeen to
tell how the children of Scotland repeat their
Nov lay me-"
This night when lie down to sleep,
gle my soul to Christ to keep,
wake a moo. I wake a. never,
gle my soul to Christ forever.
The Lutheran Synod, recently in session at
Brooklyn, N. Y. passed a resolution favoring
the discontinuance Of "Dietrich's Catechism"-
an exegetcal work which has been in use for over
200 years-and the substitution of new cate
chism formulated by the faculty of the Lutheran
College, at st. Louis. The objection to the old
catechlsm is that it is too long and too dogmatic.
We only feel that faith is life,
And death is the fear of death,
When we suffer up to the solemn heights
Of true and living faith
When we do not say that the dead shall rise
at the resurrection-call
But when trust in the Lord and know
That we cannot die at all.
Phoebe Cary.
Without haste and without rest;
Bind this motto to thy breasts
Bear 1t with thee as a spell
Storm sunshine guard it we'll
Haste not, rest not, calmly wait
Meekly bear the storm of fate
Duty be thy polar guide;
Love shall linger at thy side.
Goethe.
It is a rare thing for gentiles to embrace
Judaism. One great reason for this is that the
rite of circumcision is most offensive to them.
Hoping. however. to make the path Of proselyt-
ism smoother quite number of rabbs are ad-
vocating that in the case OF gentle men who
seek place among the jews the rite of circun-
cision be not required, and there Is some proba-
bility that this new departure will prevail.
The triennial synod of the Moravians was
brought to close on July 81 It appeared from
the report read that there we're Sc ministers, s.,
682 attendants, 1886 communicates, and that
the Sunday schools had 500 teachers, with 4, 1873
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