The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-14
Religious Notes.

There are only twelve missionaries laboring
among 100000 of Siamese.
The North Indiana Conference will meet in
Marion on April Z, Bishop John F. Hurst pre-
siding.
There are now nineteen churches in Persia,
mostly self-supporting; college for boys, and q
girls seminary.
The Methodists raised 1922 1873 AZ for missions,
within 1851 SO of the million for missions"
which was Secretary McCabe's battle-cry.
Mr.. Spurgeon has admitted 10000 persons into
church mem bership in connection with his fruit
full ministry in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and
it's missions
nails and exactly the same number of Italian
cardinals This never occurred before in the
history Of papacy.
The Germans in Jerusalem have separate
congregation of their own and under German
auspices some excellent mission work is done.
The congregation now has l34 MEMBERS of
whom, however, twenty are Arabs.
Dr. Goodwin made the statement at the Con-
gregatoual council that within few minutes
walk of his church in Chicago there was q Sec
ton of the city, comprising 10000 population,
| without a single Protestant church.
DIR. T. L. Cuyler: Write six ciphers in line
and they amount to nothing. Put the figure
| before them. and they amount to a million. All
human talents and possessions are but ciphers
until you put the name of Jesus at the head of
| them. Then they make their owner a million
| aire for heaven.
Mr.. George Williams, of London, the org-
| nator of the Young Mems Christian Associations
| of the world, suggests that each of the 1000
| should have connected with it foreign mission
airy society. to become center of organized sys-
tematic effort. having for its motto, 1.-THE
| World for Christ"
was taken. It showed that AGO, 900 persons at
| tended the services in the morning and 410 900
| At night The largest established church, ST.
| Pauls. had an evening attendance of 3 403. Mr.
| Surgeons church was at the head of the dis
senting churches, having morning attendance
of 4,5l9, and an evening attendance of 500.
The union of the Waldenslan Church and the
Free Italian Church has been virtually accom-
plished DIR. Gray, of Rome. who was present at
| the synod which met last month at Tore
| Pellice. writes that of the seventy members of
| synod present when the final vote was taken on
the proposed articles of union, sixty seven voted
| il favor; the remaining three abstained from
voting
Mrs. Ellis, of Calcutta, speaking at meeting
4 in Plymouth, England, few days ago, on Zen
| ana mission work and her own experience there
with. said she had now 400 houses visited regu-
| larly. She described the little meetings of
| women which she addressed from the verandas
| of the houses So kindly were they that she
| often forgot that she was among the heather.
| What was wanted was to get under the supersti-
tOnS OF the women OF 4udt uOuo mulGi-
| tudes would embrace Christianity and the mis-
sionary colleges would be filed
| Bishop Warren came near losing his eyes a
| few days ago. During the night he needed q
| lotion for an eye that disturbed it's owner. Find
| ing phial containing what was needed. the
| Bishop supposed. he freely applied the contents
to his face and found to his horror and pain that
| he had bathed his eyes and face with potent
carbolc acid. Nothing but instant and vigorous
| correctives saved Bishop Warren's eyesight
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| face is SCARED and burned and he looks as if he
| were fresh from battle with swarming bees, or
a siege with poison ivy. His delivery from
| total blindness was, indeed, providential