Religious Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

Religious Notes.

By Editor

—According to a recent compilation, the General Baptists in England number 25,000 members, with 187 churches.

—The Sunday law is creating quite an excitement in Colusa County, Cal. Both parties are reported as being at fever heat.

—Kansas contains about 200,000 Germans. Among these may be found twenty congregations of Mennonites with 12,000 members.

—The English Baptists have now at least 400 missionaries in charge of nearly 600 stations and sub-stations, with an aggregate membership of about 40,000.

—The revision of the authorized version of the Old Testament has progressed as far as the second revision of the prophetical books to the end of Jeremiah 9.

—The Board of Revision of Taxes in Philadelphia have decided that parsonages and church property not forming an integral part of the church are subject to taxation and will be assessed.

—Mormon missionaries are preaching Mormonism in all its hideousness in Fayette County, Pa., and report success. The number of accessions to the ranks of polygamy is reported as daily increasing.

A correspondent of the London Tablet is authority for the statement that "during the past thirty years great numbers of the laity and over 300 of the clergy" of the Anglican Establishment have become converts to the Catholic Church.

—At the fifty-fifth anniversary of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, which was recently held, the following statistics of work were given: Mission churches and chapels, 5; missionaries, 45; missionary visits, 45,506; volunteer visitors and helpers, 161; Bibles and Testaments given, 936; books loaned and given, 4,056; children led to Sunday-schools, 1,821; to day school, 123; persons persuaded to attend churches and missions, 4,527; temperance pledges, 1,545; religious meetings, 4,359; persons united with churches, 177; three organized churches—whole number received, 1,833; four mission Sunday-schools, with 2,000 children taught during the year. Aggregate attendance upon religious services during the year, 250,000; tracts distributed, 750,000; 2,803 families and 7,891 persons aided, and $4,163 cash distributed. Receipts $48,060; payments for the support of the missions and missionaries, $55,662.