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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 8, 1883

Religious Notes.

— The Church of England has an income of $22,125,000.

— There is but one Universalist Church in the State of Mississippi.

— The Bombay Guardian says the number of native Christians in India has doubled in ten years.

— Prof. Cyrus Northrop, of Yale College, pertinently says: “The Bible-class that is converted into a court for the trial of Christianity is, and in the nature of the case must be, a failure.”

— Miss Whately, daughter of the famous Archbishop, has long carried on a missionary work of great interest at Cairo, at her own charges. The Khedive has presented her with land for her buildings, and her Cairo schools number 300 boys and 200 girls, more than two-thirds of the girls and half of the boys being Moslems. She has a branch school of ninety pupils at Damietta.

— The Pope, in receiving a deputation of clergymen from Mexico, recently, praised the piety of that country, and said he felt sure that its rulers, in their own interests, would renew relations with the Vatican. That country has had relations with the Vatican for some hundreds of years, and it would puzzle the brains of the wisest man to discover wherein its interests have been advanced thereby.

— A number of prominent Lutherans of Washington are planning for the erection of a colossal bronze statue of Martin Luther in that city. It is proposed to purchase for this purpose a duplicate of the figure of the great reformer which stands in the center of the celebrated group at Worms, and erect it in front of the Lutheran Memorial church, on Thomas Circle, between Fourteenth Street and Vermont Avenue.

— The Jewish Times thinks that, in view of the fact that there are 40,000,000 Presbyterians in the world, and that the Methodist and Baptist denominations are still larger, for Protestants to cherish jealousies and fears of the Jews, who number less than 12,000,000 in all the earth, “can only be accepted as an evidence of depravity in those who indulge them, and at the same time as a very high tribute to Jewish energy, character, and talent.”

— The Presbyterian Mission Press, at Shanghai, China, sends out 35,000,000 pages of tracts a year. The Press has a type foundry of its own, and has type for English, Greek, Corean, Japanese, Mongolian, Literary Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, and five local dialects. A noteworthy feature of the institution is that every morning its workmen, sixty or seventy in number, gather in the chapel for prayers, conducted by the business manager.

— A missionary who has just returned from Egypt gives some statistics of missionary work in that country. In all the great centers of the population in Egypt there are now missions and schools; eighteen Christian churches have been organized, in which there are about 1,400 members, and there are sixty schools, with 4,000 scholars, while no fewer than 24,500 volumes of Christian and popular literature have been sold. The missionaries driven out by the late war have all returned, and found the mission property very little injured.