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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 33.

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RELIGIOUS.

—The Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association of the world convened in Stockholm on the 15th inst.
—Three hundred and fifty auxiliary troops under the command of Italian officers have been destroyed by Abyssinians. The killed included all the officers.
—The self-supporting missions of the M. E. Church in Chili, South America, have recently been reinforced by the addition of sixty ministers to their corps of workers.
—The Swedish missionary at Castle Garden, New York, says that "there are 600 Swedish Lutheran congregations in America, comprising fully 125,000 members. This body has general control over the Scandinavians in this country."
—The African Methodist Episcopal Church, whose General Conference was recently in session at Indianapolis, reports a membership of 403,351, and the total amount of money raised for all purposes during the year 1887, as $1,064,569.
—The Pipe of Peace, published in the interests of the Indian school at Genoa, Neb., says that missionary statistics show that the Christian tribes have, in proportion to their means, given more for religious purposes than any other class of men.
—Almost $800,000 worth of Mormon church property has been already turned over to the United States under the act of disincorporation. The whole of this sum goes into the school fund of Utah Territory, and, strange as it may seem, will be used largely in paying Mormon teachers.
—The receipts of the American Missionary Association for the first nine months of the present fiscal year, to June 30, were $214,434, an increase over the same months last year; but calls upon the Association have been many.
—Reports have been generally circulated in the papers within a few months since, to the effect that the firmans by which the Turks had permitted the mission schools had been revoked. While some of the schools are closed, active persecution is still maintained.