News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 13.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—It is said that in Illinois there is a population of between 500,000 and 600,000 wholly unreached by any regular religious ministrations.

—The General Conference (quadrennial) of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in New York City, May 1, in the Metropolitan Opera House.

—The first stone of the monument erected to the memory of John Williams, who was killed in the South Sea Islands, was laid by the son of the man who slew him.

—The reflex influence of foreign missions is illustrated by the fact that a young lady from Austria came last year to America to labor for the Bohemians in Cleveland, Ohio.

—Moravians have a noble missionary record. During the last century 25,000 of them have been sent to “the regions beyond,” while $300,000 have been expended yearly, and nine vessels been kept busy in the interests of missions.

—In Winnipeg, Manitoba, an Icelandic Lutheran Church was recently consecrated. The size of the building is 42 by 66 feet, and cost $4,000, and the pastor is Rev. John Bjarnason. There are said to be 2,000 Icelanders living in Winnipeg.

—The Spanish inquisition is not yet a dead letter, as may be learned from the fact that at Madrid, on the 12th inst., two Protestant Spaniards were condemned to six months’ imprisonment for having refused to kneel during the administration of the eucharist in a Catholic Church.

—The Chinese Evangelist will soon be issued in New York City. Mr. Yan Phou Lee, author of “When I Was a Boy in China,” Mr. Guy Maine, the son of a native Chinese missionary, and J. Stewart Happer, an American, born in China, the son of Dr. A. P. Happer, senior missionary of the Presbyterian Board at Canton, are to be editors.

—New York society is greatly stirred over a sermon by Dr. Morgan Dix in Trinity Church, in which the existing evils of society were too faithfully pointed out to suit the feelings of his fashionable audience. Many prominent clergymen say that the representations drawn by the doctor are true to the reality, and none too severe.