p. 14 | News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 45.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Palestine Society of German Catholics has bought a tract of 150 acres, on the northern shore of Lake Gennesaret. They are also building a church at Cana of Galilee, in honor of St. Bartholomew, a native of Cana.

—The Rev. R. Heber Newton, of New York, is said to be a regular attendant at the seances of a prominent New York medium, and to be already quite a firm believer in Spiritualism. Why should he not be?

—Says the St. Louis Christian Advocate: "The church has entered the lists, and almost rivals the opera and theater as a place of entertainment. The sermon, the music, every department, is arranged for the purpose of pleasing." Read 2 Tim. 4:1-4.

—"The gospel," says Dr. Arthur Pierson, "is a two-edged sword, having the law on one side and grace on the other, but they meet in a point. As the sword loses its value, to a degree, if either edge be dulled, so the gospel is shorn of its power if only a part of the message is given."

—No fewer than one hundred and ten candidates have applied for the living of the Established Church, Kennoway, England, which has recently been made vacant by the death of the pastor. It is evident that there are some men in the ministry who don’t believe that the field is the world.

—One of the speakers at the recent Baptist Union meeting, in London, affirmed that for each missionary sent to Africa, 70,000 barrels of rum are landed there. Some believer in a temporal millennium may take the task of solving the problem of how long it will take to convert Africa at that rate.

—After telling what has been accomplished by missionaries in India, a leading religious journal remarks: "Notwithstanding all that has been done, the heathen population is larger to-day than when Gordon Hall landed in Bombay, and it has a population that in its higher classes is breaking with old traditions, giving up its old faith, and in imminent danger of drifting away from all religion."