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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 43.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—It is said that the Methodist million for missions is all pledged but about $50,000.

—It is stated that the evangelists Jones and Small will visit San Francisco in February.

—Mr. D. L. Moody, the evangelist, will open another campaign in the South sometime this month.

—It is stated that 10,000 Christian converts in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, Africa, have raised a jubilee fund of $75,000.

—The native Christians of Madagascar have given in the last ten years more than $400,000 for the spread of the gospel.

—It is estimated that the Charleston earthquake damaged the Southern Methodist churches in that city to the amount of $60,000.

—The leaders of the Methodist denomination are discussing the proposition to hold a convention of Methodists from all parts of the world in 1891.

—The Congregational Council recently in session in Chicago was the largest meeting of the kind ever held by that denomination. Over 300 delegates were present.

—The Catholic population of the archdiocese of Chicago is estimated at 430,000. There are 284 priests, 82 of whom are members of religious orders. There are 34,000 children enrolled in the parochial schools.

—The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America has just completed its nineteenth annual session in Chicago. This body represented some 250,000 members, nearly one-half of whom are of the Swedish Augustana Synod.

—Dr. Pentecost is credited with saying in the late Congregational Council: "There are more unconverted idolaters in New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, or St. Louis, to-day, than there were in Athens when Paul felt his spirit stirred within him at what he saw in that city."

—An edition of the gospel by Mark in the Mandarin language has been published in England in raised Chinese characters for the use of the blind in China. This is the 250th language in which portions of the Scriptures have been printed for the blind after the "Moon system."