The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-17
touched you. and His voice spoken to you,
how can you help but followf
Personal and News Notes.


In Rome there are so cardinals, 35 bishops.
1.469 priests. 2,215 nuns and 5000 monks,
friars, candidates, etc.
Miss Maud Simons, of Fredericton, o.,
will be sent to Japan this month by the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.
Four hundred and eighty-two works on
theology and religion were published in the the
United States during 1888. Of these 339
were made in the United States.
/ do not know that have ever given my
opinion publicly, but will say here that L
think the modern dance is the world, the
the flesh and the devil.-D. l.. Moody.
A large Roman Catholic cathedral was
publicly dedicated at Hong Kong, 1t holds
1900 people and cost $4,000. The roof is
made of cast iron from Glasgow. The main
building is of blue brick, relieved by fly
ing buttresses of red brick and cement.
Mgr. Leon BOuland, convert from
Catholicism. encouraged by Bishop Potter
and the Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix, is about to
found religious service in New York city
a distinctive Gallican congregation and
church.
why did you not accept the call to -"
said the Bishop to ayOung clerical prOtege;
''you could have looked down upon sever al
millions, The people are rich. SIR" "Ah!
but suppose i should have been tempted
to look up to those millions, what thenW
Signor Crispi, Prime Minister of Italy
being questioned recently as TO the proba-
bllity of the restoration of the Pope to the
temporal power, said: las well talk of the
The temporal power is now thing of the
pasta toy for dull hours of mimic and
wOuld-be statesmen. Italy has no dread of
the matter ever being seriously revives."
The Presbyterian Board of Aid for Col
leges and Academies during 1SS7-SS made
rfafrn 70 hrpfx- ctx cft fxtff
having 3,411 students. The sum of $50, 7S9
was contributed by 1855 churches, but the
board finds its income inadequate to sus-
tain the present work. The General AS
individual gifts to the amount of 500, 900,
besides the offerings of the churches.
Archdeacon Colley, while preaching in
London a short time ago, was speaking
rather unkindly of the devil. Recollecting
himself In the midst of his fervor, and re-
calling the motto that the devil is not SO
black as he is painted, he replied to the
fancied remonstrances of those who would
ask him to give the devil his due: "Ah,
my friends" he exclaimed, IF we gave the
devil his due, many of us would be miss
ing"
Circumstances have placed me in init
mate relations with many ministers and
Christian men and women of all our lead
ing denominations, and i am fully
convinced that there is among the
various portions of the church much
more nearly equable distribution of Gods
choicest gifts and of the richest fruits of
the Spirit than bigoted sectarians are will
ing to admit. l have in no quarter of the
church failed to find many whom / could
both admire and love.-The Rev. A. z. Pea
body, in the Unitarian Review.
Bishop Billings, of Bedford, England.
recently astonished his hearers at East
bourne by proposal to introduce dancing
as form of social recreation in popular re-
hgious and semi-religious clubs. the right
reverend prelate himself offering to lead off
and urged tn at the church should not OBJ
ject TO cards and billiards at workingmen's
clubs and institutions. He did not think
that this would lead to gambling for
money. The Bishop offered still more re-
lnarkable opinion on the question of recre-
alton when he said that on some occasions,
as an alternate necessity of circumstances,
he would sooner close a church than a
workingmen's club
At a meeting recently held at Scandina-
via. Wis. the representatives of all but
one of the Norwegian church bodies in
America united upon basis for organic
union. A constitution was adopted and q
new general church body organized, to be
known as the United Norwegian Lutheran
Church In America. The participants in
this new movement are the Norwegian
Conference, consisting of 100 pastors 2O4
parochial school teachers. 3S4 congrega-
tons and S0,S2l communicates; the So
called -Missourian of the old Norw egian
Synod. consisting of ITO pastors, $50 congre-
cations and 3O0 00c0mmunicants: the Hague
Synod, consisting Of 90 pastors, 160 congre-