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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1889

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—Illinois has 298 Christian Endeavor societies, with a membership of over 12,000.

—A new church edifice of Chicago has on its corner-stone the words, "We preach Christ crucified."

—A conference between committees of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches, looking to perfect co-operation instead of union, was held in New York on the 28th ult.

—The Catholic priest whose occupancy of a part of one of the public school buildings in Pittsburg, Pa., for parochial school purposes, caused so much feeling in that and other Pennsylvania cities, has decided to vacate the building.

—It is said that the Hebrews of New York City this year quite generally observed Christmas. Religious services were held in the synagogues, and in most other respects the day was observed according to the general custom of those who make the day a semi-religious festival.

—A recent Eastern dispatch states that the trustees of the Normal College of New Jersey are considering the preparation of an amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting the establishment of schools, the purpose of which is to withdraw pupils from the public schools. The amendment is directly aimed at the parochial schools.

—On the evening of the 28th ult. the Presbyterian Union of New York gave a reception to the committee on the reunion of the Northern and Southern General Assemblies. Addresses were made by Revs. Howard Crosby, Charles L. Thompson, Moses H. Hoge of Richmond, and Joseph T. Smith of Baltimore. Dr. Hoge expressed the hope that the Northern and Southern assemblies would soon be together under one general head.

—The topics suggested by the Evangelical Alliance for the week of prayer, January 6 to 13, are: Monday, January 7, Thanksgiving and Confession; Tuesday, The Holy Spirit; Wednesday, The Family and the Church; Thursday, Reforms; Friday, Missions; Saturday, Nations. Sermons are suggested for Sunday, January 6, from Isa. 60:1; Rom. 13:14; John 15:5; Phil. 4:13; and for Sunday, January 13, from 1 Cor. 3:9 and 15:58.

—At the convention of theological professors in New York on the 27th ult. a national academy of theology was founded. The object of the academy is the prosecution of theology as a science. These officers were elected: President, Prof. James Strong, D. D., of the Drew Theological Seminary; vice-president, Prof. E. V. Gerhart, D. D., of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa.; register, Prof. Marcus D. Buell, of the Boston University and School of Theology; secretary, Prof. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., of the Hartford Theological Seminary; treasurer, Prof. F. Gardiner, D. D., of the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn.