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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 9, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 10.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Mr. Sankey purposes to hold another series of meetings in London.

—The Universalist Churches have decreased 115 per cent. since 1850; the Unitarian Churches have increased 89 per cent.

—The Moravians number at home 20,000, and have gathered 73,000 heathen into the fold, 24,000 of whom are communicants.

—Two Protestant citizens of Madrid, Spain, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for refusing to kneel before the viaticum.

—Berlin has a population of 1,000,000 only 2 per cent. of which go to public worship. With nearly 400,000 people in Hamburg, only 5,000 attend service.

—The General Conference of Protestant Missionaries in Mexico was held in a Protestant church made out of the court of the oldest Catholic convent on this continent.

—The annual expenditure of Protestant church-members in the United States for church work at home is $80,000,000 while the annual expenditure of the same for foreign works is only $4,000,000.

—By the recent action of the German Government, the Roman Catholic Church has acquired exclusive missionary jurisdiction over a territory of about 200,000 square miles in East Equatorial Africa.

—The Methodist Book Concern will be a hundred years old next year, and $100,000 of its profits will then be divided among the superannuated preachers, and widows and orphans of preachers, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

—Rev. Leon Harrison, rabbi of the Temple Israel in Brooklyn, with the approval of his congregation, will, in the future, hold services on Sunday mornings for the convenience of those who cannot attend the regular services on the Sabbath.

—The Church of England is getting so pressed for money that Canon Gregory proposes to cut down the salary of the Archbishop of Canterbury from £15,000 to £12,000, and the salary of the Archbishop of York from £10,000 to £8,000. The house of the Bishop of Ely is said to be too costly, and should be sold.

—Baptists are the only Protestant body which has the privilege of carrying on missions in Russia with the sanction of the Government, but they are not allowed to baptize members of the Greek Church. There are in Russia 34 Baptist Churches, 41 pastors and evangelists, 82 Sunday-schools, and 12,371 church-members; 850 were baptized last year.