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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 24, 1884

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—It is proposed to raise $10,000,000 as a Methodist jubilee offering during the present year.

—The Garfield Memorial Church, one of the finest buildings in Washington City, was dedicated on the 20th inst.

—Capt. Burby, his wife, son, and two daughters, make trips throughout the northern lakes in a vessel called the Glad Tidings, and hold religious services.

—A sensation has been created in Doyleston, Pa., over the attempt of a Catholic priest to secure a part of the public school money for his parish school. He is not likely to get it.

—Only one of the 565 papal churches of Rome is dedicated to Christ, and that is a Jesuit edifice. Honor to the Virgin predominates, and at all of them are sellers of so-called sacred objects.

—Mrs. General Sherman is persistent as well as prolific in ways and means to forward Romanism. Her last effort is a woman's club, at St. Louis, “for the study of philosophy from a Roman Catholic standpoint.”

—Speaking of the inevitable Sabbath question, the Sabbath Recorder (Seventh-day Baptist) says: “Let us purge and arm ourselves for the contest. This Sabbath is, evidently, what God raised us up and preserved us for. If this is not our special mission, then we have none as a denomination.”

—After the missionary has, through great self-denial and untold dangers and difficulties, made it possible for civilized people to enter a heathen land at all, then follows the rum merchant, with his death-dealing traffic, making money and scattering vice. Poor Madagascar is suffering terribly from the alcoholic ravages of the great civilized nations of Europe.

—A correspondent of an Eastern religious paper says: “In no part of the country have the Baptists so little comparative influence as in California.” We do not vouch for the truth of the assertion, but there is cause for such a state of things, in the fact that in no part of the country have their representative men taken square issue with the law of God as they have in California.

—The Steubenville, Ohio, Presbytery wants the Presbyterian General Assembly to put a stop to the discussion, especially in the papers, of cases of discipline until the church courts have rendered their decision. These discussions, they say, are “often imperiling to the harmony and unity of the church.” The N. Y. Independent retorts that other causes are responsible for a want of harmony; and cites “the practice of bringing charges for insignificant doctrinal variations from standards which have no divine authority.”