RELIGIOUS NEWS
7%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 3, 1878
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 1.
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- There are 300,000 Sunday-school teachers and 5,000,000 scholars in England.
- The American Bible Society has added to its library the book of Acts in Japanese.
- It is stated that the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society of Great Britain is $100,000 in debt.
- One-third of the contributions to missions last year was given by the Sunday-schools of this country.
- Fifty members of a colored church, in Lexington, Ky., have been excommunicated because they would go to the circus.
- The receipts of the American Bible Society for November were $32,737. The number of copies of the Scriptures issued were 54,194.
- Prussia has one hundred and forty Roman Catholic papers; Austria, seventy-seven; Bavaria, seventy-seven; Switzerland, fifty-three; Saxony, three; Baden, twelve.
- During the past year a thousand children have been taught in the schools of the Methodist Ladies' Five Points Mission, and 300 families have been assisted with food and clothing.
- The province of Honan, China, has a population of twenty-three millions, among whom the Roman Catholics are working with nine missionaries and three native priests. They have already made 5,000 converts among them.
- The Catholic Mirror says that there have been two hundred and fifty-seven popes. One hundred and ninety-nine of them have been Italians. Fifteen were Frenchmen, thirteen Greeks, eight Syrians, six Germans, five Spaniards, two Africans, two Savoisiens, two Dalmatians. England, Portugal, Holland, Switzerland and Canada have each, furnished one chief pontiff.
- The seventy-fourth session of the Revisers of the Authorized Version of the New Testament, recently held in the Jerusalem Chamber, lasted seven hours, and the second revision was carried to the close of the first chapter of the First Epistle of St. Peter.
- It will be part of the business of the International Sunday-school Convention, which meets in Atlanta, Ga., next April, to furnish statistics of all the Sunday-schools in the United States. The last totals were reported in 1875. They show 69,871 Sunday-schools, 753,060 officers and teachers, and 5,790,683 scholars. This will give a total of 6,543,708 persons in the Sunday-schools of our country.
- St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church of New York, Dr. O. H. Tiffany, pastor, is the strongest and most wealthy church in the New York Conference. The membership numbers 630, and the Sunday-school 321 scholars and teachers. The church property is valued at $300,000, and the benevolent contributions of the society last year amounted to $11,787.70.