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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 13.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The M. E. Church has three Conferences in India.

—There are twenty-eight Unitarian Churches in Boston.

—Moody expresses himself as opposed to roller skating-rinks.

—The American Province of the Moravian Church numbers 10,181 communicants.

—T. S. Arthur, of the Home Magazine, who died recently, was a Swedenborgian.

—The membership of the Brooklyn Tabernacle (Dr. Talmage's) Church is 2,395.

—In Newfoundland there are about 100,000 Protestants, and about 65,000 Catholics.

—There are about 100 Young Men's Christian Associations in the State of New York.

—Mrs. Garfield presided at a missionary meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, a short time ago.

—The Colored Baptists of Kentucky have 45,000 members, and a college with more than 200 students.

—Sunday, March 8, Dr. C. A. Bartol completed the forty-eighth year of his pastorate of the West Church, Boston.

—In Chicago there is one "evangelical" church to 4,117 people; besides this there are forty-six churches not counted evangelical, and fourteen synagogues.

—The Congregationalist says: "The church of Christ is on every side yielding to the pressure of a Christless world. It is adopting the customs and habits of a thoroughly worldly society."

—In the Dominion House of Commons, Canada, a bill "for the better observance of the Sabbath" was declared by the Dominion Premier, Sir John A. McDonald, to be beyond their jurisdiction.

—Sixteen years ago the island of Anima—one of the New Hebrides group—was the abode of cannibals. In eight years all had become Christians, and family worship was observed in every house. They contribute about $50 a year for missions.

—Miss Black, who recently started for China under the auspices of the Women's Missionary Association of the English Presbyterian Church, is the fifth daughter that has gone out from one manse to the foreign field—a fact unique in the history of missions.

—The Young Women's Christian Association of Boston, has erected a building that was estimated to cost $120,000, for about $10,000 less than the estimates. Would it not be a fine thing if some of the men's associations would get the women to manage their expenditures?

—The Convocation of the church of England, while recognizing that the Salvation Army has promoted temperance among the masses, condemned it as having "caused religion to be lightly esteemed, and done mischief by confounding religion with unnatural excitement."