News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 20, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 40.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—A party of twenty-six men and women recently sailed from New York to join Bishop Taylor in Africa.

—It is estimated that there are over 700,000 Poles in the United States. They are almost universally Romanists.

—Mr. Spurgeon's church has a band of 130 local preachers, and 7,677 scholars in its Sunday-schools, manned by 544 teachers.

—At the last missionary meeting of the South Sea Islanders, $1,531 was raised to build a new yacht to carry the gospel to New Guinea.

—The Christian at Work says that there are two thousand four hundred unmarried women now laboring in the various mission fields.

—The Baptist ministers of New York voted down a proposition to invite Dr. McGlynn to address them, on the ground that it might appear to be a partial approval of his doctrine. Prudent men.

—The Roman Catholic Church, by the recent action of the German Government, has been awarded exclusive missionary jurisdiction over a territory of some 2,000 square miles in east equatorial Africa.

—The pastors of several Congregational Churches in Illinois have issued a circular calling for a meeting of Christian people who feel that the prevalent desecration of Sunday is injuring the churches, promoting infidelity, and provoking the just anger of God.

—The Seybert Commissioners, in their report, say: "The belief in so-called Spiritualism is certainly not decreasing. It has from the first assumed a religious tone, and now claims to be ranked among the denominational faiths of the day.

—The twenty-first annual session of the Universalists' General Convention opened in New York on the 18th. Advance reports show that the Universalist Church in this country numbers 900 local parishes and 35,214 church members. The property, less debt, is estimated at 7,112,818.