The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-12
Religious Notes.

In the United States there is one minister to
700 people; in India, one missionary to 1885, 600.
Bishop Hopkins: Patience is the ballast of the
soul, that will keep il from rolling and tum bling
In the greatest storm.
Richter: Memory is the only paradise out of
which we cannot be driven. Indeed, our hrst
parents were not to be deprived of it.
Among the workers of the Belgian Evangel-
zeal Society in Brussels are a son and daughter
of the celebrated DR.. Merle DAubigne
They are poor
That have lost nothing; they poorer far
Who. losing, have forgotten; they most poor
OF all who lose, and wish they might forget.
jean Ingelow.
Bayard Taylor: Nothing can be had for moth
ing; whatever a man achieves he must pay for
1t; and no favor of fortune can absolve him
from duty.
Thoreau: When Isee a man with serene
counteuance, it looks like q great leisure he en-
joys; but, in reality he sails on no summers
sea- This steady sailing comes of heavy hand
on the tiller.
= Two years ago Baroness Alquier left 81, 200,-
900 to the city Of Paris for an asylum to be
named after her. The municipality has now
purchased park of 275 acres and will erect the
asylum therein.
At Haverhill, Mass, the evangelical churches
united with the Unitarian and Universalist
churches in union Thanksgiving service, the
arst combined service of the kind, say the local
papers, held there for over fifty years.
For twenty-seven years past an effort has
been made In London every winter to hold
special religious services in theaters, halls and
mission rooms. The mission is undenomi-
national, and maintains its place the first and
most successful experiment to get at the people
outside of the ordinary places of public worship
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, who
was not admitted to the Presbytery of Philade l.
phia much to the regret of the Woodland
Church. to which he was most acceptably minis
tering, has been called to the pastorate of the
independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah,
Ga. This is one Of the largest and strongest
churches in the South.
The mother of the Rev. F. S. Norton, once of
the Albany Cathedral, and now rector of St
Stephens Church, Lynn, Mass has recently
died. leaving her son large fortune, making
him, indeed, one OF the wealthiest clergymen in
America He was educated at Trinity College,
and was at one time assistant minister at St.
Thomas's, New York city.
When the late Rev. Dr. William Adams, of
New York, was at the Pan-Presbyterian Council
at Edinburgh, finding the church rent into Regu-
lar Presbyterians and Independent Presbyter-
ians and United Presbyterians, and what not,
he said, in his speech: Brethren you are r.
R.'s. and l. P.'s and u. P.'s-why don't you call
yourselves split peas and be done with itlo
Chaplain McCabe calls for ten thousand Meth
odists to Join in the ROYAL Army of Consecrated
Givers who pledged themselves to give $40 a
year to the cause of church extension from the
year 1880. The new Imperial Guard is to give
the same amount until the opening of the new
century, 1900. w. A. Spencer, No 1926 Arch
street Philadelphia, is secretary of the League.
In a letter to his clergy the Bishop of Roches
ter expresses his anxiety regarding the growing
disuse of the state prayers. If the church
ceases to pray for the state and thus TO aid her
with spiritual Offices and intercessions the state
may some day retaate, on the ground that she
is thought past praying for, ard relieve the
church OF her function az the represe tatiye Of
tho nations faith
Beecher Conservation is not wrapping ones
self in holy web in the sanctuary, and then
coming forth after prayer and twilight medita-
ton, and saying: There, / am consecrated y
Conservation ID going out into the world where
God Almighty Ia, and using every power for his
glory. tits taking all advantages as trust funds
las confidential debts owed TO God. 1t is sim
ply defeating ones life, in its whole fow to
Gods service.
Dir Henry Irving was recently asked by q
young mems society for his views on the subject
of protesting Christians attending the theater