Religious Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

Religious Notes.

By Editor

—A periodical, called the Anti-Christian, has recently been started in Calcutta.

—The British Ambassador recently laid the cornerstone of a new English church, in the Via Barberino, Rome.

—Rev. Thomas Harrison, the evangelist, has broken down from the constant strain on his nervous system, and has been obliged to return to his home in Boston.

—There are 269 churches in Brooklyn, and 224 in Boston. Brooklyn can no longer be called the "city of churches," as there are now several cities in the United States, where the number of churches to the ratio of population exceeds that of Brooklyn.

—The ninety-second annual session of the New York Conference of the M. E. Church, was recently held at Sing Sing, New York. At that, and also at the New York East Conference, at Waterbury, Conn., Bishop Simpson presiding, resolutions were passed, tendering thanks to President Arthur for vetoing the Chinese Bill.

—Rev. Dr. Morgan, rector of the American Episcopal Church in Paris, has just collected $400,000 in this country, toward the construction of a church in that city. Owing to a failure to bind the contractor to suspend work on Sundays, the work is carried on on Sundays the same as on other days, much to the chagrin of the church people.

—The first conviction under the Sunday Law in San Francisco, was secured last week. The case was that of a hatter, who was fined ten dollars. It is claimed that the law is simply in the interest of temperance; but what selling hats has to do with temperance, is something that our Sunday-Law friends will have to explain. In all the other cases in San Francisco, the juries have rendered verdicts of "Not guilty," or have disagreed.

—The beauties of a State religion are exhibited in a recent controversy in Vienna, between the parents of a child, and the Roman Catholic Church. The parents seceded from the Roman Church and joined the Baptists. Now the Roman Catholic authorities insist upon their right to baptize a child since born to them, and, on arriving at the age of seven years, to be taught by the priest. The authorities decided in favor of the Bishop, and the child has been baptized, contrary to the wishes of the parents.

The Christian at Work shows that the Roman Catholic Protectory in New York, has received from the Legislature, in the last eleven years, grants to the amount of $2,639,296, and is still asking for more. The C. at W. very properly protests against any more money being given. It claims that the State would be better off without the Protectory, as the children are not allowed to be put out into good families, where an opportunity would be given them to become good citizens, unless they can be put in Roman Catholic families. The objection raised is that the Catholics wish Protestants to be taxed, for the purpose of educating children in the Roman Catholic faith.