The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-09
Religious Notes.

Gods ways seem dark; but, soon or late
They touch the shining hills of day.-[Whittier.
The Church of England has an income from
the state of about 81, 100000 year.
Bishop Williams of Connecticut has decided
that women shall not vote in church meetings.
The Bible in its first revision in the Malagassy
language, after nine years of labor, is now com
pleted
Dr. Newman Halls church, in London, oper-
rates nineteen Sunday schools, in which are en-
rolled 5000 children.
Rev. DR.. Schaff has presented to Union Theo-
logical Seminary the table around which sat the
American members of the committee for revising
the New Testament
Bishop Taylor, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. who has recently travelled six hundred
miles on foot in Africa, in establishing mission
stations is seventy years Old
Mr.. j. T. Norton of London, offers the English
Presbyterians enough money to pay all expenses
of two ordained and two medical missionaries to
China. The offer includes salaries and expenses
for three years.
The Italian Parliament has passed law or
daining a weekly day of rest for all children
employed in manufactures. Pastor Sciarrelli,
of the Wesleyan Church at Naples, has been
the principal mover in this much reform.
+. W. Teal: 1t is the habitual thought that
frames itself in our life 1t affects US even more
than our intimate social relations do. Our conf
uentlal friends nave not SO mQcn TO 90 III snap
ing our lives as thoughts have which we harbor.
Never neglect private Bible reading ard when
you read, remember that God is speaking to
you. and that you are to believe and act upon
what he says. Backslidng generally begins
with the neglect of private prayer and Scripture
reading.
The Rev. John l.. Scudder, clever and popu-
lar young clergyman of Minneapolis. has just re-
signed his charge in that city, among other rea-
sons because he has used up all his stock of SER
mons, and cannot, with his parish work, prepare
sermons such as his congregation expect.
tits all but fifty years since was held the first
Presbyterian General Assembly of Victoria,
Australia. Arrangements in consequence, are
being made for the worthy celebration of the ju-
for home sustentation and church extension
schemes.
The successor of the Rev. Dr. Magoon, retired,
in the pastorate of the BroadStreet Baptist
Church, Philadelphia, is the Rev. Clarence Au-
gustine Adams, a promising young man from
Camden, N. j. He preached his first sermon to
his new congregation last Sunday. DR.. Magoon
remains there as pastor emeritus.
Two ruined synagogues have been discovered
by Mr.. Lawrence Oiphant on the northern
shores of the Lake of Galilee. Mr. Oliphant is
an enthusiast about the Jews, holds various odd
opinions in regard to the ten lost tribes and has
written on the uses to which Palestine might be
put by British army of occupation.
The new memorial church erecting in Elberon.
N. j., by Mrs. Moses Taylor of New York in
memory of her husband, is nearly completed.
The cost of the edfce is about $35, 000 1t is a
gift to the Presbyterians. and prominent clergy
men of that denomination will occupy the pulpit
Sundays during the summer seasons
An interesting relic is about to be added to the
museum of Methodist antiquities in London.
The font of the church at Madeey, which was
used by the Rev. John Fletcher, the theologian
of Methodism, which has for many years been
carefully preserved by private individual has
just been presented to the president of the con-
ference, and WILL in all probability, be added to
the antiquities at the Mission House.
Preacher Moody. now in Chicago, said to a
newspaper caller II don't like to be interviewed
A talk with a reporter makes me feel like fool
Why9 Why, you always make me talk about
myself-that, and nothing else-and I'd rather
talk on any other subject" So he branched of
in q talk about the black people. He says that
1000, 900 colored people In the South can read,
write and speak intelligently of citizenship.
Strive everywhere and in all things to be at
peace If trouble comes from within or with
out, treat if peacefully. If joy comes, receive it
peacefully without excitement. If we must
needs flee from evil, let do it calmly, without
agitation. or we may stumble and fall in our
haste Let us do good peacefully, our hurry
will lead US into endless faults Even repent
ance is work which should be carried on peace
fully.--St Francis de Sales.
Notwithstanding recent deaths, there now in
England no fewer than eleven secular peers in
holy orders-the Earl of Mulgrave, heir to the