p. 515 | Religious Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 15, 1883

Religious Notes.

—As the fruits of Mormon missionary labors in the Southern States, 100 converts were shipped from Chattanooga to Utah last week. A late arrival from Europe brought 658.

—The 400th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, which occurred on the 10th inst., was celebrated all over the recognized Christian world—even in Rome. In Berlin there was a gathering of 80,000 school children.

—Archbishop Lynch of Toronto has addressed to the Pope and Cardinals, and also to the bishops of Ireland, a long letter on the loss of souls in America, consequent upon wholesale and impoverished immigration.

—The noted Pere Hyacinthe has arrived from France, and will make a tour of the United States, including the Pacific Coast. He will lecture on "France and the United States," giving also his reasons for withdrawing from the Catholic Church.

—The ministerial rage for harmonizing the Bible with so-called science leads to some ridiculous freaks. Rev. R. Hodgson, M. A., an English clergyman, takes the ground that "pre-Adamic remains are nothing more nor less than fossil angels."

—At a recent meeting of the British Cabinet it was announced that the French Government had decided to give Mr. Shaw, the English Missionary in Madagascar who suffered loss in a bombardment by French war vessels, $5,000 damages and officially express regrets at his ill-treatment.

—Five Chinese converts were recently added to the First Baptist Church in this city, from the mission on Eleventh Street, conducted by Mrs E. I. Bradway, and others are expected to be ready for admission in a short time. This church has now quite a number of Chinese members, all of whom are said to be very active workers in the cause.

—The Swedish missionary in Iowa, Rev. J. Hendricksen, says his country people are strong Lutherans, who believe in regeneration, in infant sprinkling, confirmation when fourteen, and forgiveness of their sins when partaking of the Lord's Supper. They are very much afraid of Baptists, whom they regard as lost from the grace of God—an idea which their ministers carefully impress on their minds.

—Dr. Huntington, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Central New York, is author of the pastoral letter read at the Philadelphia Convention, in which other denominations are referred to as "those voluntary societies." He says the "meaning of the Bible is visible to those who come to it from within—who see as the church sees;" and confidently speaks of "our superior heritage and traditions."

—The new Roman Catholic Coadjutor Archbishop for California, arrived in San Francisco, on the evening of the 6th, from Chicago. He came in splendid style, palace coaches being provided for him by his friends in his late field of labor, and a goodly number of church dignitaries accompanying him. He was the recipient of more attention on the way, and on his arrival at San Francisco, than any ecclesiastical personage who has ever yet come to the Pacific Coast. The Archbishop himself went as far as Salt Lake to meet him.