The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-21
Religious Notes.

The King of Siam recently donated $3.50, 600 to
Baptist missions.
No place can make q bad man happy. The
remedy is not in locality, but in character.
You must put up with a great deal il You
would put down a great deal-T. T. Lynch.
In South Africa there are said to be 223 Pres
byterian congregations and $4,000 church mem
bers.
Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities
for good actions. but make use OF common situ-
ations.-Goethe
The authorities have already decided upon the
Sunday-school lessons for 1890. The entire year
will be occupied with the life Of Christ as re-
corded by Luke.
IT wish 1 could mind God as my little dog
minds me, said a little boy. looking thoughtful
ly on his shaggy friend; "he always looks so
pleased to mind, and Idon't."
have seldom seen much ostentation and
much learning met together. The sun, rising
and declining, makes long shadows, and at mid
day, when he Is his highest, none ab all. Hall.
The Alabama Advocate complains because
the new nymn-book of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Is being printed by "a radical,
sectional, sectarian Baptist deacon in Philadel-
phia." instead Of by the publishine-house at
Nashville.
About the worst calamity that could befall
any man would be the power to have every
thing he desired for the asking, although to the
average mortal this condition seems the ideal Of
all possible expectation and good.-Great
Thoughts.
1t is an awful condemnation for a man to be
brought, by Gods providence. face to face with
a great possibility OF service and Of blessing,
and then to show himself such that GOD has TO
put him aside and look for other instruments.
DIR. McLaren.
If all the Sunday-Schoolc children in the world
would commit to memory the Sermon on the
Mount la feat that can be easily ACCOMPLISHED,
they would possess the best code of MORALS
not only extant, but have at ommand all the
practical rules of q Christian life. and have o
great variety Of tosts of Christian experience.
For a long time I felt myself to be a lost sheep,
not knowing on whom TO rely; and now. with
the deepest consciousness that | have at least
attained rest, / exclaim. ''The Lord Is my Shep-
herd. What is there that can harm mel' And
as | look forward into the future, l sxclaim,
With David. Il shall not want"-August0s
ThOluck.
Canon Wilberforce. of England, write4 from
Dublin, Ireland, TO his parishioners giving some
observations while IN that city. He calls both
the Protestant and Catholic cathedrals of Dub
I'm memorials OF drink" 81. Patricks Cathe-
dral having been built from the proceeds Of por-
ter brewing. and Christ Church Cathedral from
the profits OF whisky distilling.
At Cambridge. England, an AFRICAN prayer
union" has been started by friends OF the late
Bishop Parker. Objects: ]. To pray definitely
on one day In the week for the spread of the
gospel in Africa. 2 To read regularly about
one or more of the African mission fields. 3.
To correspond with some African missionary.
A quarterly paper will be issued.
A wee daughter of a certain minister went to
church a few weeks ago for the frat time. She
enjoyed the music, and was Interested for quite
q while in looking at the strange place and peo-
pie; but at last she grew very tired, and reach
ing mp her little arms toward the pulpit, where
her father was in the midst of his sermon, she
said:
'Come. papa. that's enough; let's 60 home
The Rev. Leonard Gaetz. OF Alberta, who had
a fine exhibit at the industrial fair, was once
pastor of the Queen'savenue Methodist Church
at London. At an evening service one of the
choir soloists sang q selection that bordered
vsry closely on the operatic, and il was noticed
that Mr.. Gaetz grew very grave during the sing
ing. aud when il was finished be rose and re-
marked with great elaboration: ave will now
resume the worship OF God. Toronto Globe.
Il is not possible for 9 Christian man to walk
across SO much as a rood of the natural earth,
with mind unagitated and rightly poised, with
out receiving strength and hope from some stone.