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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 12.

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RELIGIOUS.

—Free-will Baptists and Campbellites will again attempt a fusion.

—Dr. Meredith's Bible class in Brooklyn is attended by 1,500 people.

—The Baptist mission in a single district in China has 55 churches all self-sustaining.

—The Presbyterian women of India raised last year $8,000 in cash for home missionary work.

—Mr. Moody has sent three educated young men to Japan to carry on evangelistic work. They sailed January 30.

—Rome, which had no public schools while it was under the direct control of the Pope, has now 15,000 of its children attending the public schools.

—One-third of the churches in Maine are closed for want of support, and one-half of the people are non-churchgoers; out of 1,362 churches, 417 are vacant.

—"Pilgrim's Progress" has just been translated into a language spoken in Upper Guinea. This is the eighty-first translation of the work into a foreign tongue.

—The erratic theology advanced by the professors at Andover Theological Seminary is not having a favorable effect on the prosperity of the institution, inasmuch as the attendance of students is materially diminishing.

—The obstacles preventing the union of the Presbyterian Church, North and South, which was attempted by a conference last summer, are now made public, and appear to be on the question of negro communicants and political differences. The former was compromised by granting colored people separate churches, but the latter is not yet disposed of.