The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-03

Season for universal prayer for Sunday schools
Oct IL and l8
A Grand Lodge of Good Templars has been
instituted at the capital of Iceland
The mind doth shape itself to it's own wants
And can bear all things.
Joanna Baltic.
The ruling passion, be it what it will
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Pope
The Christian community in India is ircreas-
ing at the rate of 81 per cent year, and there
fore doubles every twelve years.
DR.. Aubrey, the well-known Congregational
minister of London, will make this fall, tour
of the United States, ecturing and studying
American institutions.
The Baotists of southern California have raised
$4,000 for the erection of the first building of
the Southern California Baptist University at
Los Angeles. Other and larger buildings will
follow
The Seventh day Baptists support mission in
China and one in Holland university at Alfred
Center n. Y. and college at Milton, Wis. The
attendance at the two institutions last year ag
gregated 700
There are thirty-two Presbyterian Sunday
schools in the United States having more than
one thousand scholars each. The largest one is
at Throop-avenue Church, Brooklyn, n. Y,
with a mem bership of 2, Ut.
The Lutheran Church has the gospel preached
in the United States in thirteen different tongues:
English, German, Swedish. Norwegian, Danish,
Icelandic, FINNISH Bohemian, Polish, French,
Servian, Slovenian and Wendian.
West Indies Methodism is celebrating its CEN
ternial. The first Wesleyan mission among
them was established at ST. Johns, Antigua
Christmas, 1776, by DIR. Coke, who, with three
missionaries. set up the standard.
Doctrines that do not reach the heart will
never control the life. instruction that is intel
lectual only will never save or sanctify soul.
The minister's great business is to transform
doctrine and instruction into motive.
There is "a memorial church in the Himalayas
for which Mr. George Stuart of Philadelphia
furnished the idea and a good share of the
money. and Mr.. John Wanamaker the bell and
George w. Chlds the clock, and Mr. Thomas F.
BakemOre the marble memorial tablet, inscribed
with the name Of the missionary pastors dead
daughter. The bell and clock are described as
1.-The most magnificent in India
At the meeting in Princess Hail. where the
Bishop of London presided, he said that ne was
in favor of restrictive license, and that it was
the greatest of falsehoods TO say that laws to Sc
cure temperance affected only the poor, for in
answer he said the poor themselves asked for
legislation, and the only way to secure proper
legislation was by patient, persistent work. The
reports from the different colonies were very in
terestine, and went to show the great need for
persevering, organized effort the part of the
church
The Jewish Messenger assures US that "a re-
ligion will never rise above the spiritual level of
its women; and no denomination can neglect the
counsel, sympathy, and active service of high
minded and sagacious mothers, wives and sis
rers We lsraelites will recognize this fact more
clearly in time. The complete Umschwung in
the education of is not sufficiently APP
precated by our Jewish congregations But
there is abundant excuse. The great majority
of our synagoeues are still foreign to all intents
and purposes"
There has been. it is stated, great awaken
ing among the Beers Dutch settlers) of Natal
South Africa. They have been so busy with
prayer-meetings that the worldly have com
planned that they have spoiled the annual races
The leader among the converts is a Mr. Mel, who
says he count over 200 in his sparsely-settled
district who have experienced change of heart
The work very quiet one. beginning with
ont the agency of evangelstIc meetings. Those
awakened showed great anxiety FOR the heather
Kaffirs, and many natives have been converted.
What is known as the Paris Missionary Soci-
ety. having resolved to establish mission in
the French section of the Congo district has is
sued circular appealing for funds. Thirty
thousand francs. about 81 900 per annum it is
calculated will be sufficient at the outset. mis-
sions! Missions!' writes NJ Revelland in the
Signal these should be our crusades, to which
our sons should devote themselves and in which
they might win titles to nobility far more real
than those which were obtained by the pilgrims
to the Holy Sepnlchre and by the mailed knights
of the Middle Ages. God wills it."
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