p. 142 | RELIGIOUS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 9.

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RELIGIOUS.

—The Church of England has nine mission stations along the Panama Canal.

—The Protestant Episcopal Church will hold its next congress in Louisville, Ky., next October.

—The Congregationalist denies that all the Chapel Church at Andover hold the new departure views.

—It is said that the action of the Porte, hostile to the Jesuit schools in Turkey, is due to Russian influence.

—The Swedish Lutherans of Salt Lake City, it is stated, have a Sunday-school with 300 children in attendance.

It is said that exclusive of Panama, there is only one ordained missionary in all the northwestern part of South America.

—Over two hundred petitions against the running of mail trains on Sunday were presented to the United States Senate one day not long since.

—It is said that a recent canvass of the lower grades of the schools of England reveals the fact that 95 per cent. of the pupils are members of the Bands of Hope.

—Cambridge University (England) has a new feature in the shape of a prayer-meeting at 6:45 o'clock Sunday morning. It is attended by nearly sixty under-graduates.

—The Christian at Work is authority for the statement that during the past two years, no less than six new Roman Catholic parishes have been organized in Jersey City and vicinity.

—Senator Hoar has introduced a resolution into the United States Senate, to amend the rules of that body, so as to require a quorum to be present when the chaplain makes his opening prayer.

—In a recent sermon on the Sunday question Rev. Dr. Frost, of Sacramento, Cal., gave it as his opinion that "fully 95 per cent. of the youth of our country are outside of religious and moral influence."

—The Chinese Young Men's Christian Association at Honolulu, H. I., has erected an association building in that city at a cost of $5,000. Two thousand of this was contributed by the Chinese themselves.

—The archbishop of Canterbury, has issued a call for a general conference of all the bishops of the Anglican communion throughout the world, to be held in London next year. Over two hundred and fifty bishops are expected to be present.

—Rev. Edward A. Lawrence writing to the New York Independent says: "There is no religious liberty in Corea. The fact may as well be frankly stated and fully understood. The recent attempt of France to provide by treaty for the toleration of Christianity was a failure."

—Recently two daily papers in Ohio, the Globe-Republic of Springfield, and the Times-Star of Cincinnati, have discontinued their Sunday editions, and the Congregationalist expresses the "wish that these examples might set a new and better fashion, and prove the beginning of the end of Sunday papers."