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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

Religious Notes.

— Moody and Sankey expect to go to Paris, where there is plenty to do.

— Three French missionaries have been murdered near the oasis of Ghadamas, in the Sahara Desert.

— Major Whittle and Mr. McGranahan have just commenced a series of revival meetings in San Francisco.

— The Presbyterian and Reformed Societies of Japan have 2,000 members and eighteen churches, from nine years' labor.

— It is reported that in North China the largest number of converts are obtained where the Scriptures are most faithfully circulated.

— The converted Jews of New York have established a weekly prayer-meeting, in the hope of bringing many of their people to acknowledge Christ.

— Rev. Dr. C. H. Malcolm, of the Baptist Church, has been ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, by the Bishop of Rhode Island.

— Col. Geo. R. Clarke gave a Christmas dinner to 500 poor people, at the Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago. The Colonel is a zealous missionary among the destitute of that city.

— The conversion of the Roman Catholic Canon of St. Peter's, at Rome, continues to attract much attention, and it is said to have a strong influence on the religious of that country.

— The Jewish Times of San Francisco speaks of "that immortal Jew known in history as Jesus Christ," and says: "Though there is no record that he ever wrote a line, yet more has been written concerning him than has, in all probability, ever been written about any other person, and one of the most widespread and extraordinary systems of religion ever founded has been established in his name."

— A New York correspondent of the Boston Watchman, (Baptist), speaks in becoming terms of condemnation of the church fairs, or "turning houses of prayer into places of merchandise." He speaks of a week's church work as "a week of nonsense, frivolity, cheating, and gambling." Of Talmage's church he says: "The Tabernacle was turned into a mammoth showcase, and the boys and girls held as wild a carnival as was ever seen in Rome. Other churches followed—the Baptist among the rest." And all this as evangelical Christianity!