RELIGIOUS NEWS | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 14, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 11.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—Cardinal McCloskey arrived in Rome after the election of the pope.

—Four-fifths of all the Baptists in the world are found in the United States.

—All the popes have been Italians since the election of Adrian VI, of Utrecht, in 1522.

—The New York Bible Society distributed by gift and sale during January, 4,178 Bibles and Testaments.

—The debt on St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal church on Brooklyn Heights, is said to amount to $140,000.

—The personal gifts made to Pius IX., since he became pope, amount to over $140,000,000, not including Peter's Pence.

—The Mormons are building a magnificent temple on the summit of a high mountain in Manti, Utah. Five hundred men are at work on it, and it will not be completed for four years.

—It is estimated that the number of Catholics in San Francisco is not less than 150,000, which leaves to the non-Catholic portion 126,265 white persons, and 31,950 Chinese and colored races.

—The expenditures of the American Bible Society for the current year have thus far exceeded the donations by $50,000. It has made grants of 200,000 copies of the Scriptures during the year, and appropriated $110,000 to the foreign field.

—The receipts of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, during the past year, were $28,582 and expenditures $28,736. As many as 255,509 persons visited the building for the purpose of association work during the year.

—The Presbyterians have organized over one hundred new churches on the Pacific coast during the past nine years, and erected a fine theological seminary in San Francisco, which has already sent out fifteen active young ministers.

—The Roman Catholic sees and vicariates in Great Britain and Ireland and the Colonial Empire number 126, and the total number of Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom is estimated at 6,000,000. Among them are 36 peers and 48 baronets. The number of patriarchs, archbishops and bishops throughout the world who acknowledge obedience to the Roman pontiff, is 1,160.

—The church property of New York city is valued at $56,191,600. Of this the Episcopal church has $24,175,000 distributed over sixty-three parishes. The Catholics come next, with property valued at about $11,000,000. The Presbyterians rank third and the Dutch Reformed fourth. The total indebtedness of the churches is a little over 13 per cent of the valuation.