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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 21.

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—Recent dispatches from Rome record the sudden illness of the Pope. He is said to be very weak.

—One of the churches in Petaluma, Cal., is considering the plan of employing hacks to bring the aged and feeble members of the congregation to Sunday services.

—It is stated that the Rhenish missionaries now count about 10,000 members of congregations in their 15 stations among the Battas of Sumatra and the adjacent islands.

—Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle, a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren Church at Wooster, Ohio, has been authorized to perform the marriage ceremony. She is said to be the first woman ever thus authorized.

—Several Jewish journals are advocating the necessity of a Jewish conference to be assembled in Paris during the exhibition, with the aim of considering various Jewish questions, such as the emigration to America and Palestine, and the way to meet anti-Semitism.

—During the century since Carey went to India, De Murray Mitchell computes that at least 200,000,000 have been added to the pagan population of the globe, and that for every 10,000,000 added to nominal Christendom fully 15,000,000 have been added to heathendom.