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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

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SIGNIFICANT ITEMS.

By F. A. Buzzell

The Rothchilds are estimated to be worth $3,400,000,000.
Charles Francis Adams, says, “Three-fourths of the demand for books from the Public Library (Boston) is for the most rabid and sensational books.”
What can be done to remedy the daily occurring horrors of stabbing, shooting, and kerosening of wives, husbands, and children, is a potent query here.
The parliament of Prussia has received many petitions of late asking, in behalf of the working classes, for a restoration of Sunday as a legal day of rest—Morning Star.
A church in Kentucky has just secured a new pastor, and one of the members writes: “We have just secured his services at a salary of $100, and are looking forward for great blessings.”
Religion in America is rapidly becoming aristocratic. It is the most baleful tendency of the times. Sunday is the great “class day” of the nation, the day when the divisions of society are most plainly marked.—New York Herald.
The theological candidates in the universities in Prussia were 740 in 1873 against 2203 in 1831. . . . Candidates fall off just as mills stop running—because there is no call for their products—The Churchman.
Such is the condition of society, such the low state of public morals that one cannot walk the streets of even a country village without fear of molestation.—Boston Herald.
One of the ablest of our contemporaries referring to the posthumous exposure of a pecuniary corruption, calls the evil a “dry rot of the time.” The description is a just one. A process of moral decomposition has been going on for years in our society.—Christian Union.
A bridge which will be bigger than that now building between New York and Brooklyn, and the largest in the world, is to be built over the Firth of Forth, Scotland. The heights will be 150 feet, and the number of spans 104. The great span in the center is to be 1500, and the smaller ones 150, feet in width. It will cost about $10,000,000.—Vox Populi.
I am sorry for metropolitan society, but the truth is, and we have been told it a great many times, that the way the church is managed it is doing little, mighty little, to properly cultivate the Lord’s vineyard, and it is no uncommon thing to see the wolf in sheep’s clothing prowling about the sanctuary.—Boston Herald.
F. A. BUZZELL.