p. 383 | Religious Miscellany: by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1875

Religious Miscellany:

By Editor

—Moody and Sankey begin their revival work in New York, October 31, in the Brooklyn Rink, which has a capacity of 7,000 to 8,000. The services will be on the same general plan pursued in Great Britain.

—A Waldensian colony of six or seven families, consisting in all of sixty persons, passed through St. Louis in July, to South-west Missouri, with a view of making that their future home. Others will follow as soon as they can dispose of their property in the old country.

—Advices from Munich announce that the Ministry has received permission from the king to support, in the Federal Council of the Empire, a proposal for the extension of the "Jesuit Laws" to the Franciscans, Capuchins, and Carmelites; that is to say, for the banishment of the members of those orders from the whole German Empire.

—It is reported that the New Lebanon Shakers are slowly dying out. Within a few years several outlying societies have given up, many young people have left the sect, and there have been few additions from without. This year they have been obliged to dispose of some of their farms, and much of their work has been done by hired men from "the world." The community, however, is still vigorous and shows no weakening of faith in its peculiar principles.

—A correspondent of the Methodist gives a graphic account of Methodism in Salt Lake City: "The elegant new structure so prominent before the Church for pecuniary help was dedicated, in August, by Bishop Haven. It is the finest church structure in the city, and will seat one thousand two hundred. Its Sunday-school, with two others that have been established in other parts of the city, numbers eight hundred scholars. One year ago they numbered only two hundred. A large proportion of them are ex-Mormons and actual Mormons."

—In a late speech Cardinal Manning said: "I think it is a shame and a scandal to the Christian world to see the misery and the scourge which the sins of governments have created and brought about by the apostles of revolution, who made it their first and chief object to pull down the temporal power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. I will venture to prophesy—and my prophesy is this: If the Christian world be destroyed, he will never again reign over it; but if the Christian world is to survive, the sense of justice will one day put him back again in his seat. But the Christian world will not be able to do even that without scourging itself by a European war, which it has prepared for itself."