The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-16
MINOR MENTION.

The Indianapolis pulpit will lose ornament
and strength by the retirement of Rev. DR..
Jefferv, pastor Of tho Fr st Baptist Church, and
the city an honored aud valuable citizen
should he change his residence. DR.. Jeffery came
= distin guished minister OF bis denomina-
tion with record of service aud usefulness
sufficient to crown almost any career. He has
steadily grown upon the respect and affection OF
the general public and of his congregation, from
that day TO the present, until how be ranks with
the foremost of the men who give character to
the Indianapolis pulpit His withdraw is matter
OF public concern and regret. Ia the revolution
OF the iEtnerant wheel, Rev DR.. Gilbert, Of
Meridian street ". E. Church, will also retire
from TIE pastorste of that congregation. DR..
Gilbert is "a pastor and preacher Of vide and
mul;iform experience, and ore OF decided abil-
ties and strength. Especially is be Of excep-
. tionai worth TO any church aud te any community
in what N ay be termed the educational sphere.
DIR. Gilbert is teacher by instinct
and by choice. He flied that role for
rum Der Of years before his entry into the
ministry, and his superior work in that line
was what pointed him out to IL International
Sunday school COMMITTEES as a 1T man to take
the superintendency Of the proposed new edu-
cational department 1t will be well for the
Sunday school interests Of the country il the ar
rangeinent, for the present somewhat in sus-
penss can De satisfactorily completed. These
vacancies IN the Indianapolis pulpit will and
must he filed by equally able and strong men.
1t has been the boast of indianapolis for
may years, that its pulpit of the best
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country. This standard will doubtless be main
tanned, both the congregations and the church
authorities being alike interested. Il is not i'm
probable that Rev II. n. Givler, Of Blooming
ton. will succeed DR. Gilbert, in which event
one Of the ablest brightest young preachers in
the West will De secured. Mr.. Givler is one OF
the coming men OF the Methodist Church, and
he. is coming very rapidly. He is original,
scholarly, practical, and earnest in the pulpit,
and has already made his mark high in his
chosen profession.
EvIDElrTLY public reformers have given up
the hope of breaking up the gumchewing habit.
which has gained such hold upon all classes OF
society. Solemn appeals to those addicted to ii
to quit chewing are heard less frequently, and
in their place come suggestions as TO the pro-
priety of chewing in GIL inoffensive way. One
of these philsnthrophsts. who is apparently in
bad humor with his ill-success in the prohib-
itory line, has this to say:
The habit is sbominable and more so when
the chewer Is a lady ana her mouth is open from
ear TO ear every motion 20 mssticats IL IL
must be that the gum habit is in vogue and the
style, why not little taste displayed In chew
ings Let the party using gum close the lips and
only use the oral eavity-tnside of the MOUTH
and not open when chewing. This will not look
unsiebtly-or will it look as II the opening
when resorted by the ooenng process OF chew
ing like railroad depot with q train Of cars
ready to enter.
If men and women will chew, night and day,
the next generation will probably DO whopper
iawed and squint-syed as consequence; but il
is not worth while TO worry about that. If re-
formers will reform the unpleasant methods OF
mastication. it is all the non-gum chswers ask.
THERE are scores of people who have lived
for years within sight of the Capitol dome 81
Washington who have never been in the mag
n;6cent building. No doubt hundreds OF persons
now living in this city will dis without ever see
ing the inside Of the Sts.e-house. Yesterday an
old gentleman who lives in the northeastern