The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-18
Religious Notes.

Good will like good name, is got by many
actions and lost by one.
There are in New York 4s9 churches, chapels.
and mission, of which 800 are Protestant
Dr. Newman Halls church, in London, oper.
htes nineteen Sunday schools, in which are en-
rolled 5000 children.
Mr.. j. w. Richardson, of Circleville, O., has
been faithful attendant upon Sunday school
for sixty years. Who can beat this record?
The Rev DIR. Philip Schaff, who sailed recent
ly for Spain. will attend the meeting OF the
Evangelical Alliance in Geneva this summer.
It Is claimed that the union Of the four Meth
edist churches in Canada has worked so harmo
niously that an increase of 20 600 to the n;amber
ssa:c the first year demonstrates wisdom of
the union
Total Baptist churches in the United Safes,
$500; total Baptist membership IN the United
States. 2507 753 total Baptist membership in
the world, 3,059,635.
In the Territory Of Utah there are "a Protest
tent and Catholic churches 50 ministers, g 1913
ehurch-members, 70 Sunday It's teach
ers and SOLO scholars. To this is to be added
eleven women engaged in mission work and forty
ministers wives.
A guild for the cultivation of amiability has
been formed among the Roman Catholics of
Switzerland, the members pledgng themselves
TO always look amiable, to avoid giving trouble
10 Otu0rS, 10 speak kanQly even Wnen refusing
help, and to be always polite.
Now that the two Sans are about through
with Chicago, Mrs. Woodwork, the emotional
roviyalist," is expected to attack the city
Mrs. Woodwork has made her reputation in
Indiana and Ohio, chiefly because people 60
into frances and tumble over in fits at her meet
ings.
The late Bishop Kavanaugh. of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, according to the Nash
vile Advocate, referring to manuscript sermons
IN the pulpit, was accustomed to say: paper is
poor conductor" The Bishop was right, illus
trating the better method nearly every time he
preached.
Hereafter women deaconesses of the Church
Of England are to be specially consecrated to the
work by the laying on of hands by the bishop.
This Is according to the Recommendation of the
Dean OF Chester. who In a report from a COM
mittee appointed to investigate the question: con-
siders their work of peculiar value.
The Bishop Of Oxford sent to the church
wardens in his diocese q circular of inquiries,
among which was, docs your officiating clergy
man preach the gospel, and is his conversation
and carriage consistent herewith The church
warden at Wallingford replied: He breaches
ths gospel but does not keep carriage"
The Methodist Protestant Year Book for 1886
gives the following statistics: There are 2, $40
ministers, 929 local preachers, I26, 438 members,
4,071 probationers. There are /, 713 church edi-
Gees and 1863 parsonages the total value of which
aS estimated 10 be x3, I46, OIL There are z, zoo
Sunday-schools. with an aggregate of &, 499
scholars
Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Evangelical
Association, who is so often COMPOUNDED with
Bishop Bowman. of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Is thus described by the Religious
TELESCOPES: "He is of somewhat nervous tenn
peramcnt, is exceedingly genial and pleasing in
bis bearing, and is very popular with the preach
ers because OF his superior social qualities He
Is man Of fine presence. is good executive
officer, an able preacher, and is now forty nine
years OF age
'Grand Chief P. M. Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, who has been
prominent in the adjustment of labor troubles
East and West during the last two seasons, is a
member Of the Central Church, Cleveland He
Is man thoroughly grounded in Christian prin-
eiples and unfagging in Christian effort His
address before the Law and Order meeting at
Music Hail. last Sunday night,-was one of the
best of the occasion, aid was listened to with
great interest
Dr. Robertson Smith. who some few years ago
was elected from professors chair in the Free
Church College. Aberdeen, and who has since
been Lord Almoners reader in Arabic at the
University of Cambridge, has been elected to the
important and responsible Office Of librarian Of
sac university by q vote OF 303 TO l02 The rival