The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15
Religious Notes.

John Wesley: Gaining knowledge Is a good
thing, but saving souls is q better.
1t is computed that there 16. Al. 900 Sun
day-sehool scholars in the Christian world
The Presbyterians of Atlanta are taking &C tive
and practical steps for the establishment Of a
Presbyterian university in Georgia
OF the five women elected to the Oskaloosa,
Kan, City Council. four are Methodists and one
Episcopaliau. The Mayor, MRS. Lowman, is
Presbyterian.
Persian (Ferdousi): Would'st thou taste to the
full the sweetness of lief Then keep myself low
at humilitys feet. The sweetest of the cane is
the part that grows nearest the earth.
Earnest souls should not despair because their
day is not as fair their dream. It is better to
than to be wholly content with groveling ca
reer.
How inexcusably loathsome is profanity! And
what quantities OF it hears the streets
and elsewhere. Whippe speaks OF certain per-
sons Sin whom profanity appears TO be a secre-
tion of the throat"
For every conspicuous Christian who proves
to have been q hyDocrite, scores live quiet. hon
best believe in them most This Is why expos
urss do not destroy the church.
Cardinal Manning. of England, has written a
DO werful article on 1.-THE Worthless" IN which
he charges that .'Ihe drink-trade is public
permanent, and ubiquitous agency of degrade
ton TO the people of these realms.
Wan Sin Lee, Chinaman, who has saved
over $l5, GOO in the laundry business has applied
for admission to Cornell University. He says
he has been converted to Christianity. aud that
he intends to go as a missionary to China.
A negro went crazy in hospital last week
He shrleked so terribly that who had been
bedridden thirteen months with spinal disease,
leaped from his bed and ran ffteen-yards. He
is now preparin to go homo. What kind of q
'1cure" is thau
Southwest Kansas Conference is to have a
home for it's worn out preachers and the widows
of deceased preachers. Eighteen lots have been
bought adj dining the college site, in Winfield,
and as fast as the income of the association ad-
mits. suitable cottages will be built and assigned
20 the bene6ciaries.
Eighty years ago William Carey wrote from
Bengal: 'The people here hate the very name
OF Christ, and will not listen when His name is
mentioned" To-day Rev. W. R. James writes
from Serampore: "By all means see to it that
the name of Christ is plainly printed on the
title page Of every book tract that we print"
At the close of sermon by DIR. Archibald
Alexander, of Princeton. preached in school
house where one of the senn airy students usIl-
ally supplied, one of his rustic hearers said 81
liked that old man; he is not learned like those
seminary fellows who generally preach here,
but but ! could understand every word that he
Wit is sometimes shown in analysis whether
exhaustive or rot. The ministry of the church
of England is described by not unfriendly
writer as consisting or Lati tudinarians Attitud-
inarians and Platitudinarians A writer in the
Atlantic Monthly spoke OF the church under
three aspects: The church militant. the church
ConStIuctants anu tne cnurCu leTnAganL
The Methodist benevolent budget for 1883
makes tbs following demands: Parent Mission
airy Society. 81, 200 900; Freedmen's Aid Society
$3.50. 900: Church Extension Socisty $500. 100;
Sunday-school Union, $50. 900; Tract Society,"
$50. 900; Board of Education, SO. 900; Womans
Foreign Missionary Society, s226, csc; Womans
Home Missionary Society. $4,000. Total, g.
3I4, $50
You may be nearer 20 Christ than you think.
Those men who went along the road TO En-
maus, weeping and moaning that their Christ
gone, poured into his very ear the tale OF
their bereavement They told Him of their
trouble-that they had lost Christ: and there
He was talking to them In the midst of their
deep grief there was their victory. and they did
nos know il.
The Rev. Edward Judson, son OF the famous
AdonIram Judson. proposes TO erect monument
to ais father in New York city It is to be a
massive and beautiful church edifics perfectly
adapted TO Christian worship and work" aud
situate in lower New York, ION the border-lsnd
between the rich and the poor II his plan Is
carried out the seats will be perpetually free It
viii be owned 10 such way that it cannot DO
mortgaged.