News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 1, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 1.

Read the full edition

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Street preaching has been prohibited in Seattle, W. T.

—There are forty-six Catholic Churches in Brooklyn, N. Y.

—The four Gospels have just been translated into the Corean language.

—An exchange calls the evolution theory "the ape-x of false science."

—The minimum salary of Presbyterian ministers in Canada is now $750 a year, with a parsonage.

—There are now eleven vessels in various parts of the world, in the service of missionary societies.

—All the German clergymen of the Episcopal Church are to meet in Troy, N. Y., this month, to consider the work of their church among the Germans.

—The rioters who attacked the Salvation Army in Switzerland were acquitted on first trial, but on an appeal were sentenced by the higher court, to imprisonment, one for thirty days, three to twenty-five days, and six to twenty days.

—A new term in theology has been invented. It is that of "Mother Hubbard Christianity," and is used to characterize that sort of Christianity which fits alike any body and any denomination. There is a great deal of this loose, easy Christianity now-a-days. People call it "liberal," but the new term is more expressive.

—The French chamber of Deputies is steadily working toward a separation of church and State. Four million francs are to be taken from the appropriations to the Roman Catholic Church, and 300,000 from what has formerly been given for Protestant worship. If the church cannot support itself in the world, the reason for its existence has vanished.

—A correspondent of the Churchman states that on the 25th of November, the assistant bishop of New York, during the celebration of the communion, imposed upon several "novices," "the three-fold vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience," which our readers will readily recognize as a monkish vow. The writer vigorously protests against this innovation, on the ground that it is a practice "unknown to our Prayer Book." Truly, there is not much choice between the positions of the two churchmen.

—The editor of The Age-to-Come-Herald-and-Jerusalem's-Pioneer, etc., is now in California. In the last issue of his paper he says: "I have preached in New England forty years, and made some friends and many enemies; and have never been further west than Buffalo, N. Y., which was some years ago. But to-day my opponents in New England do not understand my views much better than those who have never heard them." What an unappreciative world this is, to be sure. We have seen his paper, and it is not difficult for us to decide why people do not understand his doctrine.

—The Rev. David N. Beach, in declaring his creed before the council which was to install him as pastor of the Prospect Street church, Cambridge, two weeks ago, was emphatic in his statement that "the change from the seventh to the first day of the week took place gradually, as a custom of the early disciples, and without any specific command." No one entered any protest to this view, so the Christian Union's correspondent says. Why should they? If any one should find any fault with it, it would de-volve upon him to show the "specific, divine command," and that would be a task that no one has ever yet been able to perform.