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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 21, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 12.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—The number of ordinations in the church of England last year was 697.

—The present Chief of Kaffreland, South Africa, is a Methodist class-leader.

—The first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands arrived at Honolulu, April 18, 1820.

—Of the six millions of Roman Catholics in the United States, 1,237,000 are said to be Germans.

—The contributions of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States reached last year the sum of $6,834,268.

—The income of the British and Foreign Bible Society, for 1877, was $1,034,885; of the London Church Missionary Society, $953,465.

—An effort was recently made to pay off the indebtedness of $72,000 on the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, pastor, and the sum of $45,000 was subscribed.

—Fourteen thousand clergymen of the church of England have been protesting against allowing dissenting ministers to bury the dead with religious services in the churchyards.

—The average addition per year to the Middle Reformed (Dutch) church, Brooklyn, during the past eight years has been 61, or a total of 490. During that period the church has raised for all purposes about $100,000.

—Methodism in Australia which began in 1812, illustrates its progress in the following figures; Number of ministers, 320; number of churches, 1,988; local preachers, 3,581; Sunday-school teachers, 13,311; Sunday-school children, 127,032; attendants on public worship, 319,199.