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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 8, 1883

Religious Notes.

—A Buddhist priest has been converted and joined the Baptist Church at Mongzai, India.

—Geo. Q. Cannon denies the report that President Taylor of the Mormon Church will resign, and himself become President.

—Rev. G. M. Pierce, editor of the Rocky Mountain Christian Advocate and proprietor of a book store in Salt Lake, has made an assignment; liabilities, $22,000, mostly in that city.

—The influence of fashion in the Orient is indicated by the decision of the Presbyterian Synod of China that female members of the church who persist in binding their feet shall not be expelled.

—Moody, the evangelist, began his mission of six months at Islington, London, on the 4th inst. The services will be conducted in the iron chapel built for the occasion, which will seat 5,000 persons.

—The Choctaw and Chickasaw Baptist Association recently held its twelfth annual session. Letters from churches showed 100 baptisms during the year, and six churches were added to the Association.

—The late General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church voted to drop the formula, "O Lord, bless our rulers," and substitute, "O Lord, bless and preserve the people of these United States."

A letter was read in the recent Catholic Congress in Naples which stated that 60,000 members of the church in Italy are organized, and ready to strike for the restoration of the temporal power of the Vatican.

—The Governor of the State of Coahuila, Mexico, offers to give the Southern Baptist Convention $150,000 for the use of schools and orphanages. An additional offer of $60 a year for each orphan cared for is made.

—In Philadelphia last month two deaf mutes were ordained as ministers in the Episcopal Church. Rev. H. W. Syle will labor in Philadelphia, and Rev. A. W. Mann will take charge of the work among deaf mutes in the West and Northwest.

—A correspondent of the Living Church, speaking of the decision of the Methodist Church of Canada to omit the word "obey" from its marriage service, remarks: "Modern Methodism is rapidly changing into something unrecognizable by its founder."

—The celebrated Dr. James Begg, who is styled the "Scottish Highland theological chieftain," is dead. For years he had fought the various innovations that, one after another, came into the Free Church, and refused to recognize any difference between Romanism and Ritualism, and was an ardent advocate of the law of God.

—The Father-General of the Jesuits, who is often spoken of as the "Black Pope," Father Beckx, is almost ninety years of age, and finds the duties of the position too onerous for his increasing infirmity. Consequently a vicar has been elected to relieve him and take his place when he dies. The choice has fallen on a native Swiss, Father Anderly, who is himself sixty-five years old. The London Tablet rejoices that a change has come over public opinion in England as to the order, and the name is no longer a by-word, an epithet of abuse conveying the idea of chicanery.