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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 6.

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News and Notes.

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RELIGIOUS.

—During 1886 the M. E. Church received seventy preachers from other denominations.

—It is said that the American Baptist Missionary Union has no fewer than 1,200 converts on the Congo.

—It is claimed that hundreds of persons in Cuba have renounced Romanism and are awaiting Christian baptism.

—It is said that the recent religious riots in India were so serious as to excite great uneasiness among English officials.

—It is estimated that as many as 1,500 Jews leave the synagogue for the Christian church every year in this country and Europe.

—The tendency of the white and colored Methodists of the South to separate is attracting the attention of the leaders of the denomination at the North.

—More than one-half of the Congregationalists in this country are in New England; and in 1885 nearly two-thirds of the benevolent contributions of that denomination came from those States.

—In view of the fact that Great Britain spends only about fourteen per cent. as much for education as she does for the support of her army, the Missionary Review remarks that "there is evidently much mission work yet to be done in Europe, even in Christian England."

—The Dr. McGlynn affair still continues to excite considerable interest among both Catholics and Protestants. Archbishop Corrigan has felt called upon to make public what purports to be a full and exact statement of the difficulty. This is rather remarkable, for Catholic bishops generally keep their own counsels.

—A great revival is in progress in Talmage's church in Brooklyn. So far, 2,000 persons are said to have been converted.

—The California Christian Advocate says: "Every Christian church is doing good, and, on questions of order and peace, Catholics and Protestants are perfectly united; that is, they are against disorder, anarchy, and revolution." So are the Sultan of Turkey and the Emperor of China opposed to disorder, anarchy, and revolution. Oh, yes; the Catholics are opposed to all that sort of thing; so much so that they have killed over 50,000,000 of the people of God rather than suffer a revolt against the Pope, even in spiritual affairs.