p. 798 | RELIGIOUS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 28, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 50.

RELIGIOUS.

—Rev. Isaac Erret, editor of the Christian Standard, Cincinnati, died on the 10th inst.

—The Moravian mission of the Nushagak River, Alaska, is three thousand miles from its base of supplies.

—The Interior says that "twenty-nine different languages are in use by those who preach and teach and read the Bible" to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania.

—Wealthy Jewish citizens of New York have, so says the Times and Observer, organized a social club in which no gambling is allowed. Evidently the members are not patrons of church fairs.

—It is stated that in order to conciliate the Czar the Pope is strongly inclined to grant all the concessions demanded by Russia, including the introduction of the Russian language in Catholic Churches in Little Russia and Lithuania.

—A medical missionary society has been in successful operation in New York for seven years. The society is unsectarian, as is evidenced by the fact that the forty-three students in training during 1887 belonged to nine different denominations.

—It is stated that the Jaffa and Jerusalem railway is fast approaching completion, and within a few months the Holy City will be placed in direct communication with the sea-coast. Jaffa, or Joppa, is the starting-point of the road.

—The Supreme Court of Turin has decided that a Jewess married to a Jew must raise her children in the religion in which she was born, according to the will and testament of her husband, though she may have chosen to embrace the Christian religion.

—The Church Progress (Catholic) says that "the recent Catholic Congress held in Zurich, Switzerland, was a great success. The members decided to convoke a general assembly of Swiss Catholics next year for the purpose of founding an association in defense of the church and of the Holy Father."

—The report that the Pope sent a second receipt to the Irish bishops some two weeks since, has been confirmed. The document, it is understood, reaffirms the position taken by the Vatican some months since, and requires the bishops and clergy to carry out the wishes expressed by the Pope in his former letter.

—A colored clergyman makes the statement that secret societies are among the great evils which afflicted the colored race in the South. Memphis has eighty-two of them, and almost all the adults of both sexes are members of one or more of them. He said that they are formidable rivals to the churches.