The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-25
Religious Notes.

All the way to heaven ia heaven.-Canon
Farrat.
Ons must be poor to know the luxury of Civ
ing, -5eorge Eliot
aozAYsecious thing is the more precious TO us il
it has been won by work or economy.-Ruski kin.
When home is ruled according to Gods word,
angels might be asked to stay at night with us,
andthey would not find themselves out of their
sieufens.-Spurgeon.
= + is stated that the number of youths of no.
hIerank In Italy studying for the Roman priest
hood is smaller to-day than ever before within
she memory of man.
. The further we get away from self the nearer
Wsget TO God, and the more we impress
selves usefnliy the world We easily
see. il we WISH how true is the spirit of the
New Testament.-UnisedP Presbyterian
The American committee having the matter
in charge have invited DR.. Luke Hitchcock, of
Chicago, to 60 to London in June member
atlarge Of the General Conference Missions
thatlmfers in Exeter Hall, June next
Someone has been proving around in Scot
landaaud has discovered on marble slab in the
aud kirk of Brechin this inscription: "Mr.
David Blair. about 1760. instituted Sabbath
schoolin Brechin, tho first it is believed. in
Scotland"
The library of the late Dr. Leopold Won
Ranke reached New York last week. It is said
there are about $4,000 volumes in all, but
many of these really valuable pamphlets.
This is great acquisition for the university at
Syracuse, n. Y.
It is not when We are conscious of our faults
that we are most wicked; on the contrary we
then less so. We see by a brighter light:
and let remam her. for our consolation, that
we never perceive and feel our sins till We begin
to cure them.-Fenelou.
1t is said that torn copy of the Gospel of
Mark. given In Orissa to man rho could read,
was one of the most important links in the chain
through which the church at Khunditiur
formed, which has been in existence some forty
years. and from which some of the best Orissa
preachers have come
An Indian fakir having been converted TO
the gospel, still occupies position by the side
of a great thoroughfara but instead of standing
one foot and holding his hand above his head
for hours at time. before. he has built lit
tie chapel and dug we'll where he entertains
passers-by with cooling dranght while he dis
courses to them of TIE waters of eternal life.
The Pope characterizas the British and For
eign and American Bible Societies moral
pests Yet there are more murders IN the dis
trict of which Naples is the center than in all
England put together in any year. But
popes. cardinals and priests never learn any
thing from facts. They are bomb proof, triple
plated with egotism, and rveted by ignorance.
The New York Tribune says that the Rev
Bartholomew Edwards rector of Ashill, Nor
folk. is the oldest clergyman in England. He
has just completed his one hundredth year He
has been rector of Ashlll just seveuty-6ve years
He Is also the oldest living Cantab, having taken
his B. A. 1911 He is in good health and
still occasionally conducts the services at his
church.
One of the crying evils of the present age is
prevalent snperfciaiity and want of thorough
in nearly every thing. Outside show and
glitter take with the crowd and are popular,
while under this ven eering lie mental barren
ness and vacuity In the midst of great physi-
cal activity we sigh for age of old-fashIoned
intellectual thoroughness. Shall we have il, es-
pecially in reIlgionl-Interior.
A tract. THE True Refuge" received at Chill
TAGGING. led tosthe formation of the church at
Comillah. IN eastern Bengal The same tract
has led many others to Christ. Tract distribu-
ton lay at the foundation of the great work in
BackerguEee The Jewel Mine of Salvatlon,"
and other tracts, have been wonderfully blessed
in Orissa. A gospel and tract. gwen tour
IN Assam TO Caro- man led TO his conversion.
and eventually to the commencement of that
promising work of the American Baptists in
the Care hills. where there we be-
heve. thousand church members or more.
Scatter good tracts.-Evangelical Messenger.
Rev. STA Sex Ong, who will represent the
Foochow Conference at the coming Methodist
General Conferences, is unable tc speak English.
and Rev. Nathan Sites will accompany him TO
this country, act Interpreter, and explain
to him institutions. The admission TO the
United States, under the Chinese act of Mr.
Ong. and the Law delegate. Mr Thong . Hok,
distinguished and wealthy merchant and Chris
tian gentleman, makes little stir. The CALI
fornla Advocate says. "A high Official said when
the matter was proposed 10 hIm The Law Ia
against them, and we cannot admit them
The Boston Waterman takes open issue with
those who talk abont the decay Of preachine
afirEaing on the other hand that there has
never been AZ age since Christianity damned