News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 45.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Rev. Robert Mackenzie, pastor of Howard Presbyterian Church, S. F., has accepted a call from a Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg, Penn.

—The Advance gives a list of fifty-one different ways of spelling Wycliffe. With that number to select from, almost anybody ought to be able to get it right.

—The Baptist Churches of Boston and vicinity have nearly all, after mature deliberation, decided in favor of unfermented wine at communion. They now stand twenty-three in favor and two against the practice.

—We are very happy to note that the Synod of Alabama decidedly condemns Prof. Woodrow's mixed science and theology, requesting the Directors of the Columbia Seminary to take steps to prevent such views being taught in that institution.

—A meeting of clergymen of all denominations was held at New Haven, Conn., on the 21st, to arrange for a congress of American churches. The congress is to be held in May, 1885. The founder of the association is Bishop Clark, of Providence.

—Read this, all who sit in the back pews when the church is not more than half full: "Secretary M. C. Hazard divides the church into three classes, viz.: the church militant, the church triumphant, and the church termagant, the last class being those who take the back seats in church and growl at what others do."

—"Major" Frank Smith who has been sent from England to take command of the American division of the Salvation Army, announces that Cleveland, O., will be the headquarters of the army. "Major" Moore, who was ordered back to England, has refused to go, so there will be a division in the army in the United States.

—The General Missionary Committee of the M. E. Church, at its meeting this month in New York, appropriated $23,500 for the South American Mission, $26,988 to Central China, and $20,292 to North China. No appropriation was made for Africa, except $4,000 for Liberia, because Missionary Bishop Taylor seriously objected, as he wished to make the missions self-supporting from the start.

—Rev. C. Jukes, of Madagascar, at a recent public meeting in England, stated that sixty years ago there was no one in the island who could read, and now there were 300,000 who could read, and most of them possessed some portion of the Bible. The missionaries meet with great opposition from the Jesuit priests, who leave no stone unturned to persuade the people to have nothing to do with the Protestants.