p. 14 | News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—It is said that there are in the world 100,000 Christianized Jews.

—Archdeacon Farrar has expressed himself as willing to recognize the validity of the orders of all Christian ministers.

—Last year the receipts of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior were $43,768.23; $99 less than for the previous year.

—Cardinal Gibbons is about to go to Rome to receive the red hat, and to consult with the Pope on the labor question in this country.

—Hereafter no Roman Catholic in the archdiocese of Cincinnati can play on the organ or sing in the choir of any Protestant church under pain of being refused the sacrament.

—The New York Tribune asks: "Can the churches fold their hands and flatter themselves that their duties are fulfilled, while the masses prefer the saloon to the pulpit?" It certainly seems that a great many of their members can.

—Rev. G. H. Rouse, of the Calcutta Baptist Mission, says that at the present rate of progress it will take just one hundred years to Christianize India as England is Christianized. And if the thing were done, how much better would India then be than it is now?

—The Central Labor Union of New York City has petitioned the municipal authorities to close the saloons on Sunday, and in this Miss Frances E. Willard sees "Christianity forwarded by the labor movement." It would seem to us that the Christianity that closes saloons on Sunday but allows them to do business on other days is scarcely worth forwarding.

—The Congregationalist tells of a minister in New Hampshire "who complains that he has the best lot of people in his church whom he ever met. They get up entertainments, dinners and suppers, which are models of their kind, and do everything in the world except the things for which the church is especially designed." But there is nothing unusual about this case except the way the pastor seems to feel about it. Most ministers nowadays encourage that sort of thing.