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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1878

RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—Moody the revivalist, is quite ill.

—The aggregate debt of the churches of Pittsburg amounts to $250,000.

—The personal gifts made to Pius IX., since he became Pope, amounts to over $140,000,000, not including Peter's Pence.

—The new Grace church in Chicago, just finished by the Methodists at a cost of $100,000, has been dedicated free of debt.

—Eight clergymen in Chattanooga, Tenn., have united in denouncing the custom of obtaining money for churches by means of lotteries.

—The grand doxology, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow,” was composed by Bishop Ken, and is two hundred and forty years old.

—December 23, one hundred and eighty-five persons signed the Murphy temperance pledge in the First Methodist church of Oakland.

—One hundred and four candidates presented themselves for baptism at the American Baptist station, at Swatow, China, on the 3d of September last.

—Plymouth church statistics for 1877 show a membership of 2,545. The church has lost by death, dismission, etc., 94. Contributions and collections $10,429, pew-rentals $46,000.