The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-07
Personal and News Notes,

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The first organ has just been introduced
into the Free Church in Edinburgh.
. DIR. Dollinger, the distinguished indie
pendent Roman Catholic leader, is ninety
years old.
Philadelphia has church accommodations
for $4,000 people. The population of the
city is over 100000.
: Bishop Andrew Cahoon, of the Mormon
Church, now in prison, has produced q
sensation by -renouncing ~polygamy.
The Bible ON which President Harrison
took the oath of Office was the one he car
ried in his saddle-bags while in the army.
One of the greatest frauds of the present
is this system of voting men into the king
dom of God by evangelists.-Bishop Foster.
The total debt on Wesleyan Church
property in England is 100000. Schemes
for its liquidation are now being agitated.
In India 5000 Bengali Bibles were issued
mot given away but sold in 1885; in 1855,
5000. In Madras, in 1855, 100000, and in
1856. $4,000.
Bishop Fosters record of service in the
church includes twenty-seven years in the
passionate, eight as college officer, and
seventeen IN The episcopacy.
DR.. w. G.. Blaikie, divinity professor of
Edinburgh Free Church College, and widely
known in England and Scotland, expects
, shortly to visit the United States.
Rev. DR.. j. II. Bayliss, of the Western
Christian Advocate. has been appointed
secretary of the American sabbath Union
for the district having Cincinnati as its
center.
A missionary society. under the title of
Christ's Mission, has been formed in New
York for the conversion of Roman Catho-
OConnor, formerly q Roman Catholic
priest.
During the latter part of these centuries
1t has been in the power of those who hold
the truth. having means enough, having
knowledge enough, and having opportuni-
ties enough, to ~evangeliZe the globe fifty
times OVERHEAD of Shaftesbury.
The article in the new constitution of
Japan guaranteeing freedom of religion is
as follows: Japanese subjects shall,
within limits not ~prejudieial to peace and
order, and not antagonistic to their duties
iisf. "0'''''' ENJOY freedom Oh rehsi0a' De-
Plymouth Church has elected as Rev. DIR.
Lyman Abbott's assistant in the pastorate
Rev. Howard N. Bliss, who is the son of the
noted missionary, Rev. Daniel Bliss, presi-
dent of the Protestant College at Beirut.
Union Theological Seminary.
Read the Bible when you are fresh and
wide awake, when the brain is clear, and
you are not pressed for time. Read it as
the only book on earth that has dropped
down from heaven, as your directory for
life n your guide to Immortality. and it
will become a new book to you altogether.
The Rev. j. Thain Davidson.
Bishop Huntington. OF New York. says:
at is not scientific doubt. not atheism, not
aud in this land is likely to quench the
light of the gospel: 1t is the proud. sensu-
Gus, selfish, luxurious, ~church-gOing, hOl-
low-hearted prosperity. The door by which
this has gained official entrance is the pew
renting system"
fTLa n1vn,.f 81 CO ToI.t, Collo-o I'D ~ a
-Fordham. are to erect a bronze statue, of
heroic size, to Archbishop Hughes, of New
York. founder of st. Patrick's Cathedral.
and originator of the college itself. The
been accepted, and the statue will be I'M
yelled on the college grounds with impos-
ing ceremonies, Wednesday, Oct. 2. 1889. the
day fixed upon for the annual alumni re-
union.
A single Christian sect-the African
Methodist Church-which has not a white
man among its members or any organic re-
lati0ns with any white church Organiza-
ton. reports a membership of q $4,000. 1t
has 1900 places of worship, numbers 10000
ministers. has 1900 Sabbath-schools, sup
ports its own UNCONVENTIONAL papers, has
missions in the West Indies, Mexico and
Africa and its reported contributions foot
mp more than 100000 annually for the
support of church work. Men who accom-
plish such results will not always submit
to wrong. even for the dear Lords sake.
Christianity is not drawing the white and
black races nearer together, but separating
them further than ever in habits of thought,
and developing and solidifying the man.
hood of the negro with wonderful rapid
ty. Judge Albion w. Tourgee, In the
Forum.
how i Became a Successful PASTOR
The Rev. i: l.. Cuyler. ID. d., of Brooklyn,
answers this question in the April Hoini-
letic Review. Among the many striking
expressions c~ontainedin his reply are these:
Study your Bible in the morning and the
door plates on the houses in the afternoon
"A chsrch member will say: "A sermon al