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The Theological World

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Mar 15, 1887

FromThe Gospel Sickle, Vol. 2, No. 6.

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The Theological World.

.... Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Pentecost has resigned his pastorate in Brooklyn, and will devote himself exclusively to the work of an evangelist.
.... A training school for home and foreign missions has just been completed in Chicago by the Methodists, at a cost of $25,700.
.... An attempt to secure a conference of representatives of the Established and Free churches of Scotland, with a view to possible reunion, has failed.
.... It is reported that much interest is manifested in Germany in behalf of the union of the Protestant churches to resist the encroachments of the Roman Catholic church.
.... A Pennsylvania civil court, to which a case was taken, has decided that when a person makes a subscription to aid in building a church, the same is collectable by law.
.... A society has recently been formed in London, called “Christian Socialists,” one leading purpose of which is to seek for ways and means whereby the evils of monopolies may be eradicated.
.... Of the five hundred Chinese now living in Philadelphia, about one quarter attend Christian Sunday-schools. One of the number is studying for the ministry, and expects to return to China as a missionary.
.... A national congress of churches and Christians has been called to meet in Chicago March 30, for the public discussion of all the various aspects of the great question of secret societies and their relation to Christianity.
.... The Chicago Interior thinks the prospect is very fair that in the near future Japan can be numbered as a Christian church, nominally, but thinks it is yet a question whether it will be Roman Catholic, Greek, or Protestant.
.... A thousand journeymen, carpenters, and joiners at Berlin have petitioned the Government to protect them from Sunday labor. The glass-works directors at Dresden have dismissed about a thousand men, as they refused to work on Sundays.
.... Ira D. Sankey said at Pittsburg that the Rev. Mr. Moody is to erect a building to cost $250,000, in Chicago, to be used as a training-school for Christian workers, and that the greater portion of the money has already been subscribed by wealthy Chicagoans.
.... In Germany the strange spectacle is presented of the Government bargaining for, summoning and receiving, the help of Catholic Rome, while the Protestant churches of the country are endeavoring to combine so as to resist the encroachments of Catholicism.
.... A Spiritualist paper in San Francisco states that “hundreds of people in this vicinity are now investigating the phenomena of Spiritualism, where ten took any interest in the subject one year ago. The cause is advancing with giant strides.” That is probably true, but it is none the less true that Spiritualism is a Satanic delusion.
.... The Chicago Standard remarks: “Catholic priests are growing in this country like locusts. According to the Roman Catholic directory just published, there are 413 priests in the diocese of New York, 312 in Boston, 287 in Baltimore, 282 in Chicago, 270 in Philadelphia, 254 in St. Louis, 227 in Milwaukee, and 219 in Cincinnati.”
.... The work of persecution against the Catholics still goes on in the province of Tonquin, China. Recent information from there speaks of the destruction of four parishes, the inhabitants all having been massacred because of their religious faith. Among the victims burned at the stake was a native priest ninety years of age.
.... At a recent meeting of the West Jersey Presbytery, a resolution was unanimously passed, giving it as the opinion of the Presbytery that church members who required applications for licenses to sell liquor were proper subjects for church discipline, and church sessions were enjoined to deal with such persons by censure or suspension from church ordinance.
.... Russia has adopted the same line of policy against the venerable Armenian Church in the Caucasus that she has been employing with such vigor in the German Baltic provinces. The private schools of the Armenian Christians have been closed; the non-Armenian language has been supplanted by the Russian as the medium of instruction, and an imperial ukas commands the Christian Armenians to military service, while the Mohammedans are relieved of this duty. The object is to transfer for a number of years the younger generation of Christian Armenians into other parts of Russia, where there are only orthodox churches, and thus gradually wean them away from the faith of their fathers. The Armenians are protesting with might and main. They offered to train these young men at home for military purposes, but the governor of the Caucasus districts refused to grant their request. The efforts of Russia are evidently to realize the ideal dreamed of by Alexander III., namely, that the many peoples under his sway should have “one law, one language, one faith.”