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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 36.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Lutheran Presbyterian Church has 150,308 members, and 2,236 churches.

—In fourteen years 700 Protestant chapels have been built in Madagascar, making the number now 1,200.

—Portions of the Bible have already been printed for the blind in 249 languages, using Dr. Moon's invention.

—The Catholic Church Congress which met at Leige, September 10, concluded by affirming that the principle of the temporal power of the Pope was necessary to the welfare of society.

—The Methodists are running a mission tent in Ireland. It is well received, and its novelty has attracted many worshipers. May the time soon come when a tent carrying the Third Angel's Message will be seen in Ireland.

—Several Nonconformist laymen of London, Eng., have held a preliminary meeting to take steps against the intrusion of politics into the pulpit. It would be a good thing if several laymen would do the same in this country, and protest against the iniquity of National Reform.

—An important gathering of Catholic priests was held at Baltimore, September 7, to discuss the plans for the new Catholic University. Washington City was selected for the site. Rev. Dr. Kean, Bishop of Richmond, was elected first rector of the university. The building will require $8,000,000, of which $700,000 has already been secured. A long letter from the Pope was promulgated at the meeting.

—One hears a great deal about the wonderful conversions of Mr. Moody, but an event has occurred right in Mr. Moody's own church, Chicago, that gives an insight into the spirituality of some converts. It happened that Mr. Goss, the pastor, touched too close upon some of the sins of his congregation, for which offense he was given notice to quit. On this the Christian at Work says:

"Probably for the first time in the history of the city, a minister has been literally driven from his pulpit because he trod on the business errors of some of his influential church supporters. It is generally conceded, and it is admitted by Mr. Goss himself, that his recent sermon on 'Chicago's Toiling Girls,' in which he drew a vivid picture of the deplorable condition of working girls in that city, and the temptations to which they are exposed in their daily life of toil, went home too close to several of his communicants, who came to the conclusion that this was dangerous teaching, and that he would have to go."

Are not these the class of people of whom Paul says, 'For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears'?