Religious Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 1, 1883

Religious Notes.

By Editor

—The Baptists are about to invest from $75,000 to $100,000 in the erection of a denominational college in North Dakota.

—The Methodists have purchased at Chin King, in West China, a piece of land on which to erect a mission chapel and school for boys. The title deed is stamped with the Mandarin's great seal.

—In the village of Lakeville, Conn., a life-sized figure of Christ is fastened upon a crucifix at a street corner. Merchants who petitioned for its removal have been boycotted by the Catholics, and now the Protestant ladies propose to retaliate by securing colored servants from the South.

—Senator Edmunds was at the Episcopal General Convention in Philadelphia last week, and was named among the candidates for President of that body. He declined the nomination, saying, according to the reporters, that he was not "a candidate for President for this or any other place, at this or any other time."

—Under the head, "A Sign of the Times," an English journal says that in a place of worship in London the following notice was given: "The members of the cricket club connected with this congregation will meet for the transaction of business to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. The usual prayer-meeting on Friday at half-past 7 o'clock."

—The Spiritualists of the South, recently in session at Chattanooga, Tenn., adopted resolutions to organize an encampment for their annual meeting, and for that purpose subscribed a cash capital of $50,000. The city was alive with Spiritualists from all the States, and subscriptions in cash to the amount of $8,000 were secured in twenty minutes.

—Dr. Levy, the Jewish rabbi of Oakland, has taken exception to the position of Dr. Sprecher (Presbyterian), that the persecution of the Jews in Europe is in fulfillment of prophecy. He argues that if the doctrine asserted by Dr. Sprecher is accepted as being the criterion of truth, then the outburst of sympathy and the principles of humanity so beautifully portrayed by the heads of the Christian Church in England and America is inconsistent with the doctrine.

—The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times has been investigating the work of the Mormons in Tennessee. An interview with a Mormon elder states that they have been very successful. They have been more successful in northern Mississippi than elsewhere. In northern Georgia and lower Virginia they are doing equally as well. There were about 700 in the Chattanooga party who left last fall for Utah, but this year the number will be nearly 1,000. The converts will meet in Chattanooga about the 10th or 15th of November, and will then proceed to Utah.

—Some of the people in England, who are vexing themselves about looking up the lost tribes of Israel, are now much concerned in regard to certain excavations made in Tara Mount, County Meath, Ireland. The excavators are in search of deeds said to have been given to the prophet Jeremiah for the purchase of the land of Palestine. A considerable sum of money has been subscribed in order to pay for these excavations. The diggers have dug some distance into the bowels of the earth, but as yet in vain. Strange to say, the deeds have not yet been brought to light, though the expenditure thus far amounts to about $5,000. The promoters of the search want more money, which they are not likely to get.