RELIGIOUS NEWS by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 28, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 13.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS.

By Editor

—A majority of the people of Louisiana are Catholics.

—The aggregate old Catholic population of Europe is estimated at 150,000, with about 140 priests.

—Of the 3,500,000 Canadians who are members of churches 1,500,000, it is estimated, are Roman Catholics.

—The Carthusian monks have founded a new monastery near London, the buildings of which are to cover nine acres.

—There have been built by the M. E. Church in the past ten years, 4,978 new churches, at a cost of $30,000,000.

—The Lutherans have 75,000 members in Minnesota, and are said to exceed any other denomination in numbers in that State.

—It is stated that the pope has intimated his desire that pilgrim's abstain from any special allusion to politics in addresses to him.

—The use of instrumental music in public worship is being discussed by the Presbyterians of Ireland. The question will come up in the next General Assembly.

—Arrangements are all completed for building the finest Methodist church on the Hudson at Sing Sing. Estimated cost, $58,000. It will be built of white marble.

—Of three hundred and six religious publications in this country, sixty are Baptists, fifty-four Methodists, thirty Presbyterian, twenty-nine Lutheran, twenty-six Episcopal, and sixteen Congregational.

—The Rev. John Ross left Scotland for missionary labor in South Africa fifty years ago and has prosecuted his work without returning to his native land ever since. He has two sons also missionaries.

—Four black missionaries are preparing to leave the Fisk University for Africa. The Southern colored colleges generally are awakening to the importance of endeavoring to Christianize that great undeveloped country.

—In Kentucky 75,000 have signed the pledge. Nearly half a million have signed in Ohio. The city of Cleveland has 40,000 and Columbus over 16,000. In Wilmington, Del., over 13,000 signatures have been obtained, and in Chicago, 15,000.

—The Free-will Baptists of the United States report in their Register for 1878, forty yearly meetings, 165 quarterly meetings, 1,343 churches, 1,188 ordained preachers, and 75,826 communicants. Maine has the largest number of churches, 280, and New Hampshire comes next, with 118.

—An exchange says: "The savages in Africa have a queer method of praying. The wizard or priest writes with a piece of chalk a prayer on a piece of board, and the patient carefully washes it off and swallows the water, chalk and prayer, in the firm belief that he would get rid of his disease."

—Rev. Arthur P. Adams, Beverly, Mass., has been suspended from the Methodist ministry for holding and teaching that Christ's second coming is near at hand, and that not until after the resurrection occurs can the redemptive scheme of Christ be complete. Refusing to refrain from promulgating this view, he was suspened until the meeting of the spring Conference of 1878.