The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-11
Church Notes.


Bishop Taylor will be sixty-seven years old
May 2. He has spent forty-iye years in the
ministry
There are in Germany 5000 Sunday schools
80, 900 teachers and 300. 600 scholars Twenty
five years ago there was not one.
There are in the Sunday-schools of the Chris
tan world 16. Az $50 scholars. and 1882 167
teachers. making grand total of Is. 400.l57.
Rev William Ormston, d. D, LII. D.. has
resigned the pastorate OF Collegiate Reformed
Church, New York. which he has held for the
past eighteen years.
Rev. Thomas Champness has now about fifty
lay evan gelists at work in the villages of Eng
land. supported by the sale of his publication,
joyful News, and the contributions of friends,
Blckersteth: To take the scriptures for our
directory is to walk upon path which. either
rugged or smooth, overshadowed or illuminated,
shall bring us at length to immortality and joy.
The King Of Siam has made arrangements for
placing the Presbyterian mission schools on
the same basis to state aid a the governments
schools. The American Presbyterian Mission
has had great success in Siam.
The Rev Abraham S. Isaacs is advocating the
somewhat chmerical scheme of holding in
ternatonal religious conference to include
Christians of all varities well Jews, Mo-
hammedans Buddhists and Brahmns.
Mr. John B. Stetson, hat-maker of Philadel-
phla. gives employment to about 300 men,
women and children. In connection with his
factory be has Sunday school of 600 schol-
ars, who meet in chapel which cost about
$4,000.
There will be divided among the superannu-
ated preachers. and widows and orphans of
preachers. of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
next year, 100000 out of the profits of the
Methodist Book Concern. The Book Concern
will be century old in 1882
The King of Norway and Sweden js said to be
the only crowned head In Europe who refused
to send congratulations to the Pope on bis sacer
dotal jubilee. According to the census of 1880
there were only $40 Catholics in Sweden. and a
proportionately small number in Norway.
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ing place during the winter months for English
speaking people. British and American. The
need of Protestant place of Worship is recog.
nized. and Sir Peter Coats, of Paisley. Scot
iand head of the house of James Coats e.
Co.. thread manufacturers, has presented the
Presbyterians with neat little church.
Aleeacy of So, 900 was left to the United Pres
byterian Church of Scotland for mission
Lake Nyassa. That church has mission in
that region. The Free Church and the author
tiles of the United Presbyterian Church have
therefore handed over the So 600 to the Foreign
Mission committee of the Free Church, to be
used as may be deemed most suitable in the re-
gion referred to.
The Rev. Mr. Ewing the returned missionary
from india relates that the natives of that
country make occasional pilgrimages to, and
worship, a phenomenon situated in the interior.
In India it is regarded as a burning mountain
by the foreigners. but Mr. Ewing says that
since he has come to western Pennsylvania and
the natural gas wells here. he is of the
opinion that natural gas is also what these Hin
docs worship in that far-away place. II it is the
genuine article, people need not fear that the
supply of natural gas will be exhausted,
for this one in India has been burning for ages
and ages.
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's,
Is-not TO fancy what were fair in life
Provided it could be-but, finding first
What may be, then find how to make it fair
Up to our means-a very different thing
Browning.
The childlike faith that asks not sight,
Waits not for wonder or for sign
Believes. because it loves Alright,
Shall see things greater, things divine
Heaven to that gaze shall open wide
And brightest angels and fro
On messages of love shall glide
'Twixt God and Christ below.
-KehIe