RELIGIOUS NEWS
13%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 18, 1878
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 15.
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- There is only one denomination in New York city, the Friends, who are entirely free from debt.
- The Missionary Review calls for $25,000,000 from the Presbyterian church of this country for missions.
- A new Methodist church at Moscow, Mich., is just completed. It is one of the finest church buildings in the State.
- The Roman Catholics of Ireland are demanding of the British Parliament a system of denominational education.
- England has among her clergy millionaires and paupers. The Rev. Francis Swan, lately deceased, left $1,750,000 personalty.
- It is stated that the Jesuits are negotiating for the purchase of a palace with the view of removing their headquarters to Rome. The Pope holds aloof from the movement.
- Bavaria has seventy-six Roman Catholic papers and periodicals, which have nearly four million subscribers. Switzerland has fifty, with considerable circulation. Austro-Hungary, with thirty times the population, has but ninety. Belgium has but one hundred and seventeen journals and periodicals. In Spain the Roman Catholic press is extremely limited, and in France the same. In Italy scarcely a fourth of the few Roman Catholic daily papers can support themselves without the aid of rich patrons. The majority have a circulation of but a few hundreds. In many offices there is no one who understands French, and the editorial knowledge of the transalpine world is of the most limited order.