RELIGIOUS NEWS | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 8.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—A Christian has been appointed governor of Crete.

—Four times the value of all the church property in the nation is annually spent for liquor.

—By a recent death, the number of old Catholic priests in Austria has been reduced to four.

—Dr. Milburn, the blind preacher, is lecturing and preaching in Ireland to large audiences.

—It is reported that the American Tract Societies, Boston and New York, are about to be consolidated.

—In 1850 the Catholic bishops in the United States held $9,000,000 worth of property; they now hold $110,000,000.

—Messrs. Moody and Sankey re-opened the Boston Tabernacle on Sunday, February 3, for a series of services to continue six weeks.

—A Catholic priest in Kentucky has forbidden his members to aid the Murphy, temperance movement, as it may lead them away from the church.

—American missionaries in Japan have translated eleven books of the New Testament, which has been published, largely at the expense of the American Bible Society, in 33 separate octavo volumes, retailing at from 3 to 25 cents.

—The American Board has expended in all over a million of dollars on its missions to the American Indians. Its efforts have been devoted to eighteen different tribes among which fifty churches have been established. The Board’s present annual expenditure for its Indian Missions is $15,000.

—The Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions, auxiliary to the American Board, held its tenth anniversary in Boston lately. The total receipts for 1877, including the balance on hand at the beginning of the year, were $106,338. The Board maintains missionaries, Bible-readers, schools, and homes in Asia, and among the North American Indians.

—The American Bible Revision Committee recently held its monthly meeting at the Bible House. The president reports that the Old Testament revisers have nearly finished the first revision of Jeremiah, and will next take up Ezekiel. The Pentateuch, the Psalms and Isaiah, had been revised previously. The New Testament revisers have reached the eleventh chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the first revision. The Gospels, the Acts, and two-thirds of the Epistles have been revised so far, but will require a second revision. The American committee is only a little behind the revisers in England.