RELIGIOUS NEWS
11%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1878
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 4.
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- Warsaw contains 90,000 Jewish residents.
- Rev. G. Herbert, of Bergen, Norway, has been fined $65 for administering baptism.
- Bishop Merrill recently sailed for Vera Cruz to visit the Methodist missions in Mexico.
- The Missouri Lutherans have appointed their first missionary for work among the Southern negroes.
- Petitions are circulating in New Hampshire for a restoration of Bible reading, or some religious service in the public schools.
- Slade, the Spiritualist, has been expelled from Vienna, because he was unable to describe his avocation satisfactorily to the police.
- Just at the time when America is thinking of taking the Bible out of the schools, England is issuing, in detached parts, an annotated edition of the Bible for the use of schools.
- The Wesleyan Female College of Cincinnati, an old institution which dates back nearly half a century, is compelled to close its doors for lack of funds. Its debts amount to $80,000. Among its prominent graduates is Mrs. President Hayes.