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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 2

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RELIGIOUS.

—There are said to be about 174,000,000 Mohammedans in the world.

—A revival of religion is said to be in progress in the native city of the apostle Paul.

—Bishop Simpson recently officiated at the marriage of Bishop Warren, both of the Methodist church.

—The first Seventh-day Baptist Church of America was organized in Newport, R. I., in December, 1671.

—Seventy young men gave themselves to the foreign mission work, as the result of Moody and Sankey’s visit to Belfast.

—The Archbishop of Paris has just had his pay cut down from $9,000 to $6,000 per annum. The Bishop of London has $50,000 a year and two palaces.

—A Mohammedan Board of Publications has been formed at Constantinople, to publish the Koran and the theological and historical works of Mohammedan writers.

—On Dec. 30, the deacons of the African Methodist Church in New Haven, Conn., forcibly ejected the pastor from the pulpit because they had found a minister more to their liking.

—The Mormon Bishop Sharp, just returned to Salt Lake from Washington, says that nothing but Providence can save Mormonism. Two “apostles” have gone to Washington in consequence.

—Arrangements are being made for a scheme of Catholic industrial schools for Indians throughout the Canadian Northwest. The Ablat Fathers will have charge of the boys’ schools, and the Gray Nuns of those for the girls.

—A Russian priest established a religious sect, all of the members of which were required to sacrifice their hair. It was in time discovered that the priest’s brother was a barber and hair dealer, and the two were making large exportations to France. The priest is now in jail, and the Order of Saraphinovski is extinguished.

—Rev. G. L. Mackay, missionary of the Canada Presbyterian Society to the island of Formosa, off the coast of China, reports that over 2,000 natives have thrown away their idols, and desire to worship the one true God. A chapel has been opened in one village, and in another of over 200 inhabitants every soul wants to be a Christian, and every house is cleared of idols.

—The Chattanooga, Tenn., Times, speaking of the Spiritualist “phenomena” in that part of the country, says: “They have not only puzzled, but converted to belief in the Spiritualist theory many men and women of our acquaintance who are as sound thinkers, as hard-headed and cool, as any in the country. Among these are eminent lawyers, jurists, and literary people.”

—The Christian at Work says: “The Tennessee Colored Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church seems to be a model of liberality. It contributes twice as much as the White Conference in the same territory, and within two cents per member as much as the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in the same time and territory, with all the wealth of Nashville. This speaks well for negro liberality and ill for Caucasian penuriousness.”