News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—A special carload of Mormon converts left Chattanooga, Tenn., for Utah and Colorado on the 15th inst.

—A Boston Chinaman has left his business and gone to Chicago as a Christian Missionary amongst his countrymen in that city.

—There are nearly one thousand Romanist converts in the Protestant churches of Rome, as the result of ten years' mission work.

—The City Missionary Society of Boston announces that 295 Chinamen have been gathered into the Sunday-school, where they are taught English.

—It is confidently asserted that the visit of French bishops to Rome is in the interest of a better understanding between the church and the Government.

—The Jewish Times says: "The Jews know but too well that Church and State is a most dangerous combination; they will never forget the Inquisition."

—The French Bishop of Tonquin calls for help. It is said that 108 mission houses have been destroyed, and more than 200 priests and converts put to death.

—The Jewish Progress says "there is a popular feeling expressing itself among the Hebrews in favor of doing away with whipping in the Sabbath-school."

—A row in a church at Ada, O., on the 10th inst., was commenced in the Sunday-school and continued at the evening meeting. The police had to quell the disturbance.

—The news comes from China that the American Presbyterian and Roman Catholic mission establishments in Canton have been wrecked by a mob, but no persons injured.

—A mission has been established in Hong Kong to watch over the Chinese returning from this country, and use them for Christian and educational work among their countrymen.

—The Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa., are sending more missionaries to Alaska. The cold regions of the extreme northern climate seem to be the special fields of operation of this people.

—At Astorga, Spain, two weeks ago, a party of students, under the leadership of priests, assaulted an Englishman and Spaniard who were peddling Bibles. The police refuse to interfere.

—The pope has written an encyclical letter deploring the moral and intellectual condition of various European nations, including France. He exhorts the bishops to do their best to remedy the evil.

—The Methodists in Cincinnati have raised $6,500 for the erection in Salt Lake City, Utah, of a Woman's Home to shelter needy women, especially those seeking refuge from the bondage and disgrace of polygamy.

—The Governor-General of India, as also the London Times, favors the disendowment of the Church of England in that empire. It is thought, therefore, that Government support will soon be withdrawn, and the hitherto favored institution will have to take its chances with other denominations.

—Emma Malloy, of the Society of Friends, and one of Indiana's best temperance workers, has recently held a series of gospel temperance meetings among the Cherokee Indians. The meetings were very large. Three hundred and sixty Indians took the pledge, and afterward, when she had preached Christ to them, fifty-two arose to give themselves to the Saviour.

—The Kankakee, Ill., Gazette has the following: "The village of Chebanse, Iroquois County, passed a Sunday ordinance, and one James McPherson violated it by keeping open his barber shop. The village brought suit in the County Court at Watska and Judge Bovie decided against the village, on the ground that the barber did not disturb the peace and good order of the village. The case will probably be appealed to the supreme Court."

—The little meeting-house where the bodies of the unfortunate victims of the recent City of Columbus disaster off Gay Head, Mass., were laid, is a Baptist Church. It numbers twenty-nine members, all of them poor. The bravery and tender humanity of the members has led to a proposition to make them a gift of a neat and substantial edifice, built of the stone that abounds in that locality, to be at once a reminder of their heroic actions, and a memorial of the dead.