The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-06
Personal and News Notes.

PrOteStantS and Catholics of Bristol, OAK,
united on Christmas eve to celebrate with
an interesting programme and Christmas
tree.
Dr. Christlieb says that the Protestant
churches raise five times as much money
for missionary purposes as the Roman
Catholic Church.
The Rev. T. L. Cuyler says that the Rev.
Alexander Maclaren, of Manchester, Eng
land, is 1.-The most perfect architect of SER
mons now living"
Mr.. Elliott F. Shepard, of the New York
Mail and Express, paid all the expenses of
the recent session of the American Sabbath
Union held at Washington.
Rev. Ida G.. Hulin, a graduate of Michi-
gan University, has charge of a Unitarian
church at Des MOines, Ia, and her cOngre-
CATION has doubled in two years.
Bishop Walden and wife have gone to
Mexico. The Bishop goes to hold the con-
ference and visit the missions of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in that country.
1t is proposed to hold short religious
services in all churches on the morning of
April So 1889, the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the inauguration of Washington.
On Oct 1, the Jubilee fund of the Victor
ian Presby Church had reached $780,
600, leaving $4,000 still to be collected. BY
this time the total has probably been made
up.
Rev. James NJ. Cleary, the general lectur-
er of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America, it is said, will succeed DR..
bishop.
The First Congregational Church of Do
yer, n. H., celebrated the 250th anniversary
of its organization on Sunday, Dec. IS.
There is but one other church in New
Hampshire older than this, and that is at
Hampton. re noS
The Catholics of Wisconsin are to appeal
from the Edgerton decision in favor of the
use of the Protestant version of the Bible
in the public schools. The Catholic Citi-
zen, of Milwaukee, asks for pecuniary aid
to carry out this purpose.
Mr.. Frederick Lothrop Ames, of Easton,
Mass, has given to the parish church of
Bruton, England, large and handsome
window as a memorial of John and William
Ames, who emigrated from the parish to
America in 1885 and 1888, respectively.
A powerful revival is said to have taken
place at Antananariva, Madagascar, where
Miss Mary Clement Leavitt, from America,
has been delivering addresses, and in other
ways engaging in evangelistic work. The
revival meetings were largely attended.
A London clergyman has sent to Father
Damien draft on a firm at Honolulu for
fl,0OO, (which" he says In the accompany
ing letter, has been subscribed by many
who are grateful to God for the example of
your heroic self-devOtiOn." ThismOneyi is in
tended for the erection of chapel for the
Catholic lepers at MolOkai.
The venerable Rev. A. p Peabody, of
Harvard College, in a recent letter to the
Rev. Henry NJ. Field, of the Evangelist,
says this of the Bible: Il am accustomed
to say to young men who are ambitious to
write wen. Study the English Bible. 1t
will be worth more to you than all the oral
or written rules, and than all other exam
pies of English composition"
Prof. Max Muller was lately entertained
at dinner by the Glasgow University Club.
In replying to the toast of his health. Prof
Muller and some one who had heard his
Clifford lectures in Glasgow were disap-
pointed because they were under the i'm
preston that the object of the lectures was
to PROFOUND new religion. This was not
the sense in which he interpreted the will
of Lord Clifford. Instead of propounding a
new religion Prof. Muller thought that the
best plan would be to expound che old re-