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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 41.

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—It is said that there are not more than twenty houses in the whole Samoan group where there is not a Bible and family worship.

—“General” Booth complains that the members of the Salvation Army have not made noise enough in this country. They couldn’t very well make more, unless they increase their numbers.

—A congress of evangelical workers is soon to be held in Mexico, representing all denominations now engaged in that fiercely contested field of labor. The Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, and Methodist Church South constitute the nucleus of the movement.

—Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary of State, following the Pope’s instructions, has sent circulars to all the papal nuncios abroad directing their attention to the principal political and ecclesiastical questions of the day, and urging them to cultivate good relations with the different Governments, with a view toward improving the situation of the church throughout the world.

—The Sunday-School Times very pertinently says: “It sounds comical to hear an ordinary congregation of well-dressed, comfortable-looking people singing: ‘Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow thee.’ Think of a woman with a silk gown on, and a stuffed bird in her hat, standing up and singing: ‘Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.’”

—Says the Christian at Work: “If the Catholic and Protestant do not lie down together like the prophetic lion and lamb, at least they are very good friends. And why not?” No reason why not. But when “the prophetic lion and lamb” lie down together, the lion’s nature will have been changed; but the Catholic lion’s nature has not changed in the least, and therefore when the Protestant lamb lies down with it, by some mysterious means only the lion will be seen.