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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 26.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—A call has been made from India for Mr. Moody to visit that country and labor as an evangelist.

—The Baptists of New Jersey have seventy-five more Sunday-schools than churches. Not a bad showing.

—Salt Lake City is not inaptly styled the place where the Jews are all "Gentiles," and the "saints" are all sinners.

—The Albany Law Journal says: "Let us not rail at the Chinese as uncivilized, while we speak of tolerating polygamy."

—The Roman Catholics have been holding a church fair in Vicksburg, which is reported as a success. An elegant silver sugar bowl was voted to the most popular saloon.

—Toronto, Canada, is said to be the strictest Sunday-keeping city in the world. The only articles that can be purchased on Sunday are milk and medicines, and these for only a short time in the morning and evening.

—The demand of the Virginia Methodist Episcopal Conference for compensation for several churches destroyed in the early part of the late war has been reported upon adversely by the Committee on Claims of the United States Senate.

—At a recent dedication of a theater in Brunswick, Maine, the exercises were opened with prayer. Well, if there is any place where prayer is needed, it is doubtless in a theater, but wouldn't the minister's prayer have had a better effect if uttered in some other place?

—The Christian at Work says: "The advantage of utilizing the preaching and executive talent that there may be in a church has recently been strikingly illustrated in the case of Rev. W. H. Fuller, pastor at Truro, who, on account of ill health, has been obliged to absent himself from his congregation. During this interval his place has been most acceptably supplied by lay helpers, whom he had previously carefully trained."

—What a pity it is that all cannot understand this simple truth, stated by the Sunday-School Times: "The Bible is a unit. The Old Testament contains the germs of every truth which the New Testament shows in flower and fruit; and the New Testament cannot be understood except as the supplement and complement of the old faith and obedience; faith as the cause of obedience, and obedience as the evidence of faith, are the graces and the duties which both the Old Testament and the New disclose."

—The editor of the Age to Come Herald and Jerusalem's Pioneer has written a book entitled, "The History of the Kingdom of God." A correspondent of the Herald says: "I have read it through, and the last chapter with greater pleasure, joy, and delight than anything I have ever read in my life." We have not seen the book, but if it is of the same class as all the Age-to-Come publications that we have seen, and the correspondent was obliged to read it through, we can appreciate his feelings of joy as he reached the last chapter.

—According to the latest official reports, the statistics of the Friends foot up as follows: London, 15,113; Dublin, 2,845; total in Great Britain and Ireland, 17,958. In this country, however, they make a far better showing, being stronger in a single State than in all Great Britain and Europe combined. Thus we have: Indiana, 20,036; Western States, 11,457; Iowa, 9,431; Philadelphia, 5,650; North Carolina, 5,385; Kansas, 5,228; New England, 4,359; Ohio, 4,252; New York, 3,072; Baltimore, 7,767; Canada, 1,410; total in America, 71,646.

—The Protestant mission at Celaya, on the Mexican Central Railroad, was attacked by a mob June 27, and the furniture and effects destroyed. Rev. A. W. Greenman and others escaped to a neighboring house, being pursued and fired on. Returning the fire, they killed one and wounded several of the mob, which then dispersed. The mission party were then protected by Federal soldiers. Greenman is now with the American Legation in the City of Mexico. The mayor of Celaya encouraged the attack and refused his protection.