The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-03

There is Fountain Majestic Sweetness and
Just as / AM He answered No. with hearty
laugh, and added Dr. Duryea's proposed amend
ment to the itany:
From small and mean men,
Good Lord, deliver us!''
One Of the many useful societies Of which the
late Lord Shaftesbury was president was what is
known as the Turkish Missions Aid Society.
Some difficulty has been experienced in finding
HIS lordship was one Of its founders.
suitable successor. It now appears that Lord
Aberdeen has consented to Gil the office; and it
is confidently expected that the youth and en-
ergy of the new president will have stimulat-
ing effect upon the committee. and that the So
cety will become more widely known.
The call for female missionaries for India is
receiving increased attention. A school has
been established in London which has for it's OBJ
ject the training of ladies for mission work. 1t
Is called the Zenana and Medical School. It
appears that already some sixty ladies have gone
forth from that school to different parts of India,
and in connection with the Episcopal, Wesleyan,
Baptist and other churches. Lady Dufferin,
wife of the Viceroy of India, has been an enthu-
siastic advocate of the more extensive employ
ment of women in mission work. Her experience
OF India enables her to speak with authority.
There is now railway in Asia Minor which
traverses some or the country In which the
Apostle Paul performed his missionary labors.
1t runs near the sites of several of the "seven
churches" mentioned in the Book of Revelation.
Trains leave Smyrna three times day, with
special Accommodations for tourists who want to
journey among the historic ruins The railway
which was to run from Joppa to Jerusalem and
then eastward through Euphrates Valley, has
not yet been built but it probably will be some
day. Between Joppa and Jerusalem is some
very rugged country, the building of road over
which will be costly and troublesome.
Some recently published figures show that the
Presbyterian Church has taken q firm hold upon
the people of Canada and that it makes most en-
couraging progress. Since 1917 it has increased
600 per cent. in Prince Edward Island, and in
New Brunswick the increase has been sevenfold.
In Nova Scotia it has multiplied itself by six. In
Quebec the increase Of members is from IL, 600
to 80, 600, and the congregations from three to
sixty. In 1917 Ontario had $4,000 Presbyterians
and nine ministers, now it has 418,000 Presby-
terians and $50 ministers. In the Northwest
there was in 1862 only one minister, now there
are 3l8 congregations and stations, with 4, $50
families and "a ministers. The money raised in
1875 was $685., 672, in 1884 it was 1858, 2l8.
According to DR.. J. P. E. Kumler, of Pitts
burg, of the 50000 600 people in the United
States in $780, 10, 065, 963 were communicates in
the evangelical churches-more than one-fifth of
the entire population. In these communicates
were not included the baptized children and
adherents, who would swell the number to
3O.O0O,OO0. In 1900 7per cent. of the population
1850, 10 per cent; in 1870. II per cent. and in
1880 a little over 20 per cent.--a little over one
communicate for every five in population. The
increase Of population since 1880 has been nine
fold; the increase in evangelical communicates
has been twenty -fold-three times as
great as the population. From 1850 to 1880 the
population increased lie per cent, while the
evangelical communicates increased 1S5 per
cent
TEMPER AT HOME.
John Hall.
have peeped into quiet ''pa4lors. where the
carpet is clean and not old, and the furniture
polished and bright; into rooms" where the
chairs are neat and the floor carpetless; into
kitchens" where the family live and the meals
are cooked and eaten, and the boys and girls
are as blythe as the sparrows in the thatch
overhead, and I see that it is not SO much
wealth and learning, nor clothing. nor SER
wants, nor idleness, nor town, nor country,
nor station, as tone and temper that render
homes happy or wretched. And I see, too,
that in town or country, good sense and Gods
grace make life what no teachers or accom-
plishmerts, or means, or society can make it
the opening stave of an everlasting psalm
the fair beginning of an endless existence; the
goodly, modest we'll proportional vestibule to
q temple of Gods building that shall never
decay, wax old, or vanish away