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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 14.

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By F. A. Buzzel

Compiled for Review by F. A. Buzzel.
The Mexican General Rocha, at the capture of Zacatecas, killed the wounded and piled them up with those killed in the fight, after which he saturated the gory mass with turpentine, and disposed of it, finally, by firing it.—Newport (R. I.), Mercury.
The number of theological students in the German universities is said to be falling off to an alarming extent. Ten years ago they numbered 2,562; now, only 1,985. The decrease is especially on the Protestant side.—Boston Journal.
Notwithstanding the large amount of land granted by the United States for various purposes, there still remains unappropriated the vast quantity of 1,034,784,644 acres. The unsurveyed land reaches an aggregate of 1,284,119,331, acres.—Boston Herald.
The New York (Methodist) Advocate, says that camp-meetings, originally a focus of religious fire, now assume the character of a gigantic speculation in real estate, with the accessories of the watering-places, exchanging “hops” and horse-races for preaching, boating, and games of croquet.
Antichristian influences are said to be gaining ground in both the upper and working classes in England. In order to meet the unbelief prevalent in the former class, the Christian Evidence Society has been giving lectures in London, which have not been very successful.—Boston Journal.
Ruth Chesterfield, in Congregationalist, says: “Society progresses. So does a crab—backward. There was a time when it was disreputable to reject the Bible. Is it one of the signs of the progress of the age that it is so no longer? that men now vaunt themselves of that which was once their shame?”
In the last six months, Boston has sent 439,500 gallons of rum to the nations in Africa. Boston is bound to enlighten the heathen all it can.—Pomeroy’s Democrat.
A lawyer in New York declines to accept an office which has been tendered him, because he has twenty-three murderers to defend during the coming fall terms of the courts.
The Unitarian church in New Bedford, Mass., has voted to dispense with the bread and wine at the communion service, but will celebrate the memorial with vocal and other services, as usual.—Newport (R. I.) Mercury.
The American Journal of Pharmacy says that 150,000 infants are killed every year by the opium contained in the various kinds of soothing syrups which they are allowed or forced to swallow.
Dr. Prime, of the New York Observer, predicts that within the life of some one now living, there will be a union of all the evangelical churches in New York. In this opinion the Protestant Churchman cordially concurs.
The State of Texas would contain the entire population of the United States without making it any more thickly settled than Massachusetts; and the same State would hold the entire population of the French Empire (or Republic that now is), and leave uninhabited a margin of sixty miles around the boundary of the State.—Franklin (N. H.) Merrimac Journal.
No wonder that the European powers are turning their attention to the loss of their population by emigration to this country. Especially is this matter creating anxiety in Germany, where the government is trying to check it. The total number of emigrants who sailed from Liverpool for America during the past month of July, was 17,000.—Boston Globe.
Slip-renting and coffee, at the Union Park Congregational Church, this Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock. A lively time is expected.—A Chicago Daily.