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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 29, 1883

Religious Notes.

—The Martin Luther statue, to be erected in Washington, will cost $20,000.

—The Christian denominations, in 1881, spent $139,440 for education and missionary work among the Indians.

—A branch of the M'All Mission is to be opened in Calais, where, till lately, there has been no Protestant preaching for 200 years.

—The calculation has been made that every Protestant missionary in the South Seas creates on an average a trade of $50,000 per year.

—Lord Granville is erecting a statue on his Cliffsend estate, to commemorate the landing in England of St. Augustine, on his mission to convert the pagan Saxons.

—Bishop Thorold, of Rochester, England, has expressed his approval of the Moody and Sankey mission, and urges clergymen of the Established Church to help it along.

—The Presbyterian Synod of New York has, by vote, refused to indorse the publications of the National Temperance Society, because they uphold the theory that the wine commended in Scripture was unfermented.

—Dr. Wilson, curate of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ont., and a leading Anglican clergyman, has created a sensation by attending an all-night meeting of the Salvation Army, and partaking of the communion.

—The Pilgrim Baptist Church, recently organized in San Francisco, is mostly composed of members of Dr. Kalloch's old Metropolitan Church, which seceded from the main body of the Baptists. The new organization is in harmony with the denomination.

—The Pacific (Congregational), in noting the arrival of the Catholic coadjutor archbishop on this coast, makes this rather compromising remark: "So far as we have any right to do so, we give him welcome. If he prove to be the sort of man and ecclesiastic called for by the situation we shall be thrice glad for his coming."

—An Irish priest, Father Doney of Loughrea, on removing to another parish, sold his farm to one of his flock named Dervin. The new priest, Father Callahan, fancied it, and the purchaser being unwilling to give it up, large numbers of people collected and stoned Dervin out of the place, shouting that the priest should have the land.

—The Ministerial Union of San Francisco, composed of all the Protestant ministers, has taken a stand for prohibition, State and National. The Advocate (Methodist) stands with the ministers, but the Occident (Presbyterian) seems to favor license. It says: "In the opinion of a large number of the best friends of temperance, East and West, a high-license law is the most effective method of regulating the liquor traffic, and of abating the evils of intemperance. The experiment is now being tried in several States, and so far has given great satisfaction." Satisfaction to whom? Certainly not to the temperance people, judging from the continued agitation.