p. 78 | News and Notes

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—An edition of the Bible has just been issued in the Zulu language, by the American Bible Society.

—A Canadian judge has recently decided that it is illegal for a barber to shave a customer on Sunday.

—At Bridgeport, Conn., five female soldiers of the Salvation Army were arrested while parading the streets, on the 21st inst.

—Great revivals are reported among M. E. Churches in Maine—especially at Augusta, Richmond, Berwick, and Cherryfield.

—Rev. Dr. H. A. Sawtelle, formerly pastor of the Union Square Baptist Church, San Francisco, after an absence of several years, has returned to that city, and accepted a call to Zion Church.

—Hoopeston, Ill., says the Kankakee Gazette, is enforcing the Sunday law. All business of whatever kind must be stopped. Livery stables are prohibited from hiring out horses on that day.

—At Cairo, Egypt, there is a Mohammedan Missionary University, where many hundreds of students are preparing to carry the doctrines of the Koran throughout the East. Moslem missionaries are found throughout all Asia and in many parts of Africa.

—Keshub Chunder Sen, the leading promotor of the “Bramo Somaj” religion of India, is dead. This “Worshiping Assembly” was founded in 1830, but Mr. Sen gave it a new impetus in 1859. Its following is not large, and it is aimed rather more at social improvement than spiritual growth.

—At Statesville, N. C., a Methodist minister while attending Conference, was asked by a stranger to come into a back street and see a dying man. Upon kneeling to pray at his side, the minister was seized by the supposed sufferer and held while the other man robbed him of $400 which he had brought to Conference.

—In a deep canyon of the Texas mountains, close by the Mexican border, a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union recently started a union Sunday-school, and, despite the different nationalities and denominational beliefs of its scholars, it seems bound to succeed. In another Texan settlement where all discouraged the effort, and said it would inevitably fail, the same missionary founded another similar school, and it met with the same success.

—A Massachusetts State Unitarian Sunday-school Union has been organized in Boston, which held its first meeting Monday evening, Dec. 17. In a discussion of practical topics it was held that vital, spiritual Christianity must be applied to the religious education of the young; and deep-seated earnestness should enforce the moral principles and truths embodied in the life and death of Jesus Christ.

—The Bishop of Ohio (Catholic) says that a unanimous declaration by every portion of the Christian Church upon the issues of marriage, temperance, and the Sabbath, would produce an effect upon the public mind of incalculable weight. To this he adds: “If grace should be given us to devise such measures as will produce cordial acquiescence among all Protestant churches of our commonwealth, and should the movement progress, as we may fairly hope that it will, to embrace our whole country, the churches of England, Ireland and Scotland being already as one with us, it is within reasonable expectation that the Christian Church throughout the world will speak the same language on all these moral issues. Legislation will not fail to follow the lead of such a public opinion. And just in proportion to the unanimity of the Church of Christ in this commonwealth, as in any other, will be its influence on the action of our legislators.”