News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1889

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—A Second Baptist Church is about to be formed in Paris, France.

—Kansas comprises three dioceses—Leavenworth, Concordia, and Wichita, with a population of 86,000 Catholics and 167 priests.

—The American Baptist Missionary Union calls for eighty men to fill vacancies and to open new work in various mission fields.

—The International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States and Canada will be held May 8-12 in Philadelphia.

—Eighty-five per cent. of the whole number of churches in the State of New York now use unfermented wine, an advance of 15 per cent. over last year.

—The receipts of the board of home missions of the Presbyterian Church up to December 31, the close of the ninth month of the fiscal year, were $405,397.39, a falling off for the same time during the previous year of $17,175.23.

—A religious house-to-house canvass of the city of New Haven is being carried on by theological students under the auspices of the City Mission, with a view to ascertaining what families not now under church influence may be reached by them. A similar canvass is in progress in Los Angeles, Cal.

—The majority of the four Southern synods having charge of the theological seminary at Columbia, S. C., have confirmed the action of the seminary trustees in electing to the vacant chairs in that institution two professors who are opposed to the evolution views of Professor Woodrow. "It is," says the Christian at Work, "probably too much to expect that the matter will rest here."