News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Dwight L. Moody will spend the entire winter on the Pacific Coast. He will commence a series of evangelistic services in January at San Francisco.

—The secretaries of the American Board have united in asking for a re-inforcement of forty ordained missionaries, and also desire $750,000 to forward next year's work.

—The Methodist Church has 30,400 traveling preachers, and 4,560,000 members, and a population of over 16,000,000, or more than one-fourth of the population of the entire country.

—An earnest plea was made in the late meeting of the Women's Synodical Committee of the New York Presbytery, in behalf of Mountain Whites, the Freedmen, the Mormons, and the Indians.

—The Outlook says that "the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath has never ceased in the Eastern church. There is a branch of the Greek Church in Japan which to-day holds to this custom."

—A German pastor, desiring to go from Constantinople to Berlin through Russia, was not permitted to accomplish his desire. A decree of the Czar forbids any ecclesiastic outside of the Russian Greek Church to pass through Russia.

—The National Prison Association has adopted a resolution recommending the practice of observing one Sunday in the year as Prison Sunday. This has been practiced in some States. The resolution advises its adoption in every State.

—The women of the Presbyterian Church, during the past sixteen years, have given $2,150,000 to foreign mission work. This represents the entire support of more than 200 women missionaries, 200 native Bible readers, and over 150 schools.

—In Utah there are ninety schools, conducted by different denominations in the following proportion: Presbyterian, thirty-three; Congregationalist, twenty-two; Methodist, twenty; Catholic, seven; Episcopalian, five; Baptist, two; Swedish, one.

—At the eighteenth annual session of the ladies of the Northwestern branch of the Methodist society, it was reported that the auxiliaries of the society numbered 4,838, having a membership of 115,228; and that since their organization they have raised $1,680,315.68.