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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 29, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 50.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—It is stated that the Presbyterian and the Congregational Churches in Japan have agreed upon a plan of union by which they will become one church.

—According to the census of 1881 Canada had a population of 4,324,810, of whom 1,791,982 were Roman Catholics; nearly 70 per cent. of these were in the Province of Quebec.

—Dr. Munhall claims that by a single sermon of his, “Sins of Impurity and the Open Saloon,” delivered sixty times in as many different cities, “about eighteen thousand men have been awakened to desires for a better life.”

—The “Office of the Dead” was “sung” on a recent evening in sixty-seven so-called Protestant churches in England, Scotland, and Wales; and on the following morning masses for the dead were offered up in no fewer than one hundred and seventeen churches.

—Professor E. B. Hulbert, D. D., of the American Baptist Publication Society, makes the statement that thirty-five years ago Catholic priests in this country held a church property of $9,000,000; twenty-five years ago, $25,000,000; fifteen years ago $60,000,000; to-day more than $150,000,000. Since 1800, the Roman Catholic numbers have run up from 100,000 to 7,000,000.