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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 29, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 25.

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Religious Notes.

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-There is a Baptist Church in the city of Athens, Greece.
-In Jamaica, the Baptist missionaries baptized last year, 2,181 persons.
-A German Congregational Church has just been organized in Chicago.
-Rev. John Nelson Darby, leader of the sect known as "Plymouth Brethren," is dead.
-The total heathen population now open to missionary effort is placed at 800,000,000.
-Dr. Wm. Hanna, the eminent Presbyterian minister and author, son-in-law of Dr. Chalmers, died May 24.
-Among the 275,000 Indians reported in the United States there are 219 churches, and 30,000 church members.
-Mr. Moody pronounces the revival work in Glasgow the deepest in interest of all in which he has been engaged.
-A third Presbyterian Church has been organized in Canton, China, with twenty-eight members. Two native elders were chosen.
-The success of Christian missions in Japan has aroused the Buddhists to unwonted exertions. They are holding meetings all over the land.
-A Brahmin graduate of Madras University says: "I would never argue if I were a missionary; I would simply give the Bible and say, 'Read that!'"
-Leipzig, in Germany, has only seven churches, all poorly attended, and no such thing as a Sunday-school. The people are indifferent to religion, and look upon a religious person with curiosity.
-The infidel who boasts that he is not confined by the narrow faith of the Bible, is like the man on the bleak wintery moor who boasts that he is not hampered by the petty limitations of a house to shelter him.—Censer.
-A colored man, Mr. J. R. Ballard, was ordained, May 20, in St. John's church, Jacksonville, Florida, which is called the most aristocratic church in the State, by Bishop Young, in the presence of a distinguished audience. It was the first case in the State that a colored man has been ordained in a white church.
-Papal excommunication does not seem to be dreaded very much now, especially by the women of Cleveland. The Bishop's threat to excommunicate all the women who remained members of the Land League, brought forth the following response: "In answer to your official of last week, and in the face of your terrible threats, I stand forth in the name of the women of the Parnell branch of the Land League, and say we will not deviate nor falter in the righteous cause we have undertaken."