News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Russian authorities have refused permission to build a monument to Luther at Riga.

—Three young girls, sisters, were lately received into the communion of a Jewish Synagogue in New York. The girls are converts from Christianity. Their father is an Irish Catholic.

—Mr. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, is afraid to come to America during any of his short seasons of rest, lest the people "kill him with kindness." He is afraid of too much honor.

—The leader of a society known as Faith Believers, recently died at New Lots, N. Y., and they kept his body fourteen days in expectation that he would be resurrected and proceed with his leadership. Such "faith" would be more appropriately denominated presumption.

—The N. Y. Tribune says, "It certainly does little good to pass laws if they cannot be enforced." Nearly every one will accede this proposition, yet a majority of people seem to think that the Lord is trifling enough to enact a law that he does not expect to have enforced.

—Dr. Oncken, the celebrated German Baptist missionary, died Jan. 26. He was 84 years old, and had been nearly fifty years a missionary. When asked years ago, what was the greatest hindrance to the spread of New Testament Christianity in Europe, he replied, "Infant baptism."

—Among the successful Methodist Missionaries laboring in Norway is Mrs Neilsen, who was for twenty-five years a successful actress. Before any sentimental credit is given to the drama on this account, it should be remembered that when she was converted she abandoned the stage.

—The Bishop of Rochester, England, strongly commends Messrs. Moody and Sankey. He says: "More than once I have come across their track in their own country, and have heard nothing but good of them. My own desire is to see 10,000 more such men raised up." A good reputation at home is always a good recommendation abroad.

—Some of our so-called scientists are likely to lose their prestige as originators of the evolution theory. A Roman Catholic journal announces that the doctrine was advocated by St. Thomas Aquinas, and that the "infiernal Protestant Reformation, which retarded the advance of human intellect so long, was the grand obstacle which prevented its adoption long ago." "Honor to whom honor is due."