The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-02-17
fields in India, Africa, the Sand
witch islands, Micronesia, China and Tur-

mission heldS IN India, Africa, the Sand
witch islands, Micronesia, China and Tur-
key.
Rev. John O'Connell, rector In Limerick,
was struck with apoplexy while serving in
the confessional, and died in a few hours.
In the Nineteenth Century Oscar Wilde
says that lin the English Church a man
succeeds not through his capacity for be-
lief, but through his capacity for unbe-
lief.n
TIL oldest clergyman in the Church of
England is said to be the Rev. Bartholomew
Edwards, rector of Ashill, Norfolk, who
took his degree in 1911, and was ordained
in 1872.
In order to enable the society to hold
property and enjoy other privileges per-
tanning to a corporate BODY, 1.-The Order of
the Kings Daughters" w been incOr-
pOrated.
Dr.. Hodge has prepared statistics which
show that the colleges of the country never
had SO many protesting church members
among their students, in proportion to their
number as now.
According to careful calculations made
by. q British clergyman of note and just
published Professionals have increased dur
ing the last 100 years from $1,000, 600 to 134,
100000, or nearly fourfold.
A bill has been introduced in the Con-
of Christian churches. Under this law
churches would be incorporated without
any separate parish organization.
The question of the establishment of the
Order OF Deaconesses in the Presbyterian
churches will be brought before the next
Presbyterian General Assembly on a me-
mortal from the P~resbytery of Philadelphia.
The gain of the various churches in this
country in 1855, in the aggregate, averaged
seventeen churches, twelve ministers and
2,l2O members for every day In the year,
which suggests that the assumption that
IN hrrraha 0nn rrn ont - =
hasty n unfOunded.
Avery pretty incident occurred at Athens,
Ca, the other day. At an afternoon prayer
meeting held at q private house, as q hymn
was being sung. a little canary bird, which
had been quiet during the meeting, Joined
In with the singing, N continued his soft,
mellow notes until the song had been fin
ished.
A clergyman, having called up a class of
girls and boys. began on one of the former
in these words: MY dear child, tell me
who made your body.h She had no idea of
her dress, and dropping a quick courtesy,
replied: please, sir, mother had the
body, but l made the skirt"
Rev. G. L. Demerest, ID. D., secretary of
the general convention of the Universalists
of the United States, and wife celebrated
their golden wedding Monday at Manches-
ter. Nh. The attendance was very large,
among those present being Rev. Mr.. Saw
yer, of Tufts College, who performed the
marriage ceremony fifty years ago
Pilgrim Congregational Church at Wor-
cester, Rev. Charles M. Southgate, pastor,
has turned its old chapel into a gymnasium
and a manual training school, where the
young OF both sexes can have recreation
and instruction at a very moderate cost.
This enterprise is in the same line with the
Parish House which the Memorial Church
people in Springfield propose to have.
The order of Dominican Nuns, which
Archbishop COrrigan is about to introduce
into New York, Is singularly severe in its
discipline. The nuns never eat meat, and
during Lent observe what is known as the
black fast; that is, abstinence from even
eggs and milk. Two nuns kneel constantly
before the blessed sacrament in the taber-
nacle day and night. The nuns support
themselves by making vestments and altar
ornaments and by illuminating books. The
new convent will be called Corpus Christi
Convent.
The Yearly Meeting of Friends, of Iowa,
has adopted the plan of a paid passionate,
and now has sixteen regularly supported
pastors. Against this departure from
Quaker policy the Philadelphia Friend thus
demonstrates: The whole statement dis
closes on the part of that Yearly Meeting a
most sorrowful and rapid departure from
departure which, If not arrested, must evil
IDENTIFY deprive that body of any Just claim
to be regarded as a true representative of
the doctrines and testimonies of our So
ciety.p
Temper seduces the wisest of mortals to sneak
like the foolish;
Patience enables the fool often to seem like the
wise.
James Z. Nesmith.