The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-15
Religious Notes.

More than goo, 600 copies of the Oxford Bible
for teachers have been sold
Pope: 1t is with narrow-souled people as it is
with narrow-necked bottleS-the less they have
in them the more noise they make in pouring
out
Bacon: Read-not to contradict and confute,
not to believe and take for granted
find talk and discourse-but to weigh aud con.
sider
George Mcdonald: Some things after all
come to the poor that can't get in at the doors
OF the rich, whose money somehow blocks up
the entrance way
A band of Franciscan nuns have taken vows
to devote their lives to missionary work among
the negroes of the United States particularly
those of the South.
A. Lincoln: I have been driven many times
to my knees by the overwh Ginning conviction
that had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom
and that of all about me seemed insufficient for
that day.
Charles Kingsley: Do to-day's duty fight
to-days temptation, and do not weaken and dis
tract yourself by looking forward to things
which you cannot see. and could not understand
if you saw them.
The Salvation Army consists of 2, 262 corps,
with 1854 officers During the last year 8 TO-
$50 meetings have been held, 2, III, $50 houses
visited, and 148, 905 persons were converted in
Great Britain alone.
A lease of 999 years, made in the days of King
Alfred, has just expired in England. The land
was leased by the church to the crown, and
verts now to the Church of England after a
millennium OF years.
Chicago Living Church: An English country
rector is trying to live 81 20 a week We
hope that no migration act will prevent his
coming to America. There is large field for
such clergymen here.
Holmes: They say that the truth is not TO be
spoken at all times, which is the equivalent of
saying that truth is invalid, who only
take he air in close carriage with a gentle
man in black coat on the box.
The Lutheran Church. as well as the Roman
ist, is establishing parochial schools. The ten
IN for irSfa fS r1xo1
the attendance of pupils in such schools having
increased Is per cent. since 1880
Dickens: The ole, old fashion! The fashion
that came in with first parents. and will last
unchanged until our race has it course,
and tine wide armament is rolled up like
scroll. The old, old fashion, Death.
Sam Small has resigned the agency of Paine
Institute, has retired from the itineracy and
has settled in Washington, D. c. At the late
session of the North Georgia Conference he
was discontinued at his request, after one
years connection with that body
Until very recently Methodism has never had
a society at Leatherhead England, where John
Wesley preached his last sermon, a week before
his death. There are about fifty members there
now, but they have no chapel A movement is
on foot for the construction of one.
Frances Ridley Havergal: ''Still how shall I
be keptP Jesus has himself answered: "If a
man walk in the day. he stumbleth not because
he seeth the light of the world" walk in the
light" looking unto Jesus and so shall we be
'kept by the power of God through faith"
The unbound journals and logs of the ships
Resolution and Discovery during Captain Cooks
last voyage, which were recently found in the
British Record Office contain says the Athe-
naunn, at least ten separate accounts of Cooks
death. They give some curious variations from
the accepted narrative
John Telford B. A. in his Life of John
Wesley" says that when Mr. Wesley went to
Oxford University, he had notion of inward
holiness, and that conversation which he had
late one night with the porter of his college
made lasting impression on his mind, and
convinced him that there was something in re-
ligion which ne had not yet found.
Rev. @. G. Finney: In crossing the Atlantic
we were overtaken by gale. Upon the deck
the noise of the waves bowling and roaring and
foaming was almost deafening But when
stepped into the engine-room everything was
quiet. The mighty engine was moving with
quietness and stiffness, in striking contrast
with the roar without: 1t reminded me of the
peace that can reign in the soul while storms
and tempests are bowling without
Spirit of Missions: There are &C, 900 wild Indian
children in this country Of this number all told,
there are but IL 900 gathered in the government
and mission schools, leaving e, 900 children to
whom no school opens its door, and TO whom
Christian missionary comes. There
at ieast sixty whole tribes upon whose darkness
no ray OF gospel light has ever fallen, as pagan
and savage We're their ancestors when the
first white man landed on these shores
The Jews have a custom of burning a taper in
memory of the dead When one taper burns
out another is substituted so that the fame
like the vestal fire, is not allowed to gosut. Said
Hebrew in New York: I'VE light the taper
when onr relative dies. and let it burn year.
The last taper we let go out of itself. 1t flick.
ers. flares up, sinks, flares again. and then
goes out just human life does in it's last
hours. We tend this light with great care and
thus keep alive the memory of our loved one
1t is old custom which is now becoming less
observed. Many now only burn the taper for a
month, and some but a week"
Mr.. Edward T. Fleming explaining in an ar
tcle in the Independent why the negroes voted
so largely against prohibition at the Atlanta
election. makes with others this point in regard
to the dram shops: at is truth that the only
place open to negro where he can get equal
rights is a bar-room. Hotels, railroad trains
and stations, soda fountains opera houses
church meetings, camp-meetings, gospel tent
meetiDgs-in fact every avenue of equal rights
is shut to him save the low, mean, dingy bar
room; and this fact had its weight" That is,
the dramshop keeper does for money what the
churches will not do for Christ's sake.
The Island of Papua.
With both Garmau and Rrifish axplorer0 busy