The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-04
General Church News.

Rev. DR.. Edward +. Rankin. one of the
best known Presbyterian ministers in the
country. died at Newark, n. j., on July %
aged seventy.
There are thirty-fv Chinese Sunday
schools in New York and Brooklyn and 135
Chinese Sunday schools and missions in
this country outside of California.
No less than nine antl-Christian papers
are published in the United States and
Canada. and their combined circulation is
about $4,000. A majority of these papers
have hard struggle to make ends meet.
The Christian Advocate Methodist SAYS:
THAT the Reformed Episcopal Church is
vastly more like what the Church of Eng
land was fifty or sixty years ago than the
Protestant Episcopal Church now is. there
can be no doubt"
In England the Baptists are divided into
ticular Baptists. These two were once
wide apart. but for years they have been
drawing closer together, insOmuch that a
movement is now on foot TO unite them.
Mr. H. Grattan GiDness addressed several
thousand colored students, during recent
trip through the Southern States, and SO
cured among them thirty missionaries for
Africa. He has arranged to have q Congo
class in each of the seven Southern Baptist
schools.
Seven hundred and ninety-nine men have
been educated at Surgeons Pastors Col
lege during the thirty-slx years OF its his
tory, aud six hundred of these are now
active pastors. Some of them have united
with other denominations. which, the Cen
trail Baptist thinks. is due to laxity of
views taught on UNCONVENTIONAL issues.
A b. Jewett. who was recently graduated
from Fisk University, at Nashville, Tenn.
is a native of Western Africa. He has spent
nine years preparing himself to do Christian
work in his native country, and expects
soon to return TO the Dark Continent to
preach the gospel. He is said to be well
equipped for the special mission he intends
to undertake.
The Indian Rights Association are pre-
pairing an invitation To all ministers in this
country TO preach next Thanksgiving day
on the Indian question and the necessity of
civil-service reform in its relation TO the
fundamental principles of good government.
A number of prominent ministers, such as
DR.. McCOsh. Bishops Huntington and
Whipple. Phillips Brooks. and a number of
leading public men, favor the movement.
The Christian at Work says: 1.-THE fact
is. the pendulum swupgso far at the Ref
Ormation that Professionalism has given no
rghtful place. il has awarded no distinctive
honor, to her who was the mother of our
Lord. and who was declared by inspiration
of God to be blessed among women By
and by. perhaps. we shall get rid of some
very foolish prejudices; and then Protest
ants will not regard the mother of our Lord
with less favor than they do the mother OF
their own children"
The presence of the Rev. Dr. Matteo Pro-
Chef, delegate from the Waldensian Churcn
to the several Presbyterian assemblies, has
awakened new interest IN that peculiar
and worthy sect. The Waldenses claim
that the mountain region of San MARITIME
and Luzerne has been the seat of their peo-
pie and religion for centuries further back
than history extends. The mother church
consists of 1900 members. In doctrine
they are liberal Calvinists, and in form of
government Presby The salaries of
ministers are graded in proportion To their
expenses. and range from $500 to $500.
They have classical college. with about
eighty students and Theological seminary
They have devoted themselves earnestly TO
education and missionary operations AL
though poor themselves they have made
many rich.
Golden Thoughts.
A poor man watched thousand years be-
fore the gates of Paradise. Then. while he