News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 4, 1889

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Baptist Missionary Union has already begun to plan for the celebration of its centenary in 1892.

—The Baptists have in West Virginia 13 associations, 444 churches, 284 ordained ministers, and a membership of 30,652.

—Emperor William, of Germany, has signified to the Jockey Club of Berlin his wish that all sports should be discontinued on Sunday, in that city.

—Bostonians are discussing the advisability of selling Old St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church, on Tremont Street, the property being worth about $1,000,000.

—It has been stated that United States Justice Lamar was a Methodist, but the Western Watchman states that he is about to become a Roman Catholic.

—The native churches of Samoa have, in the last twenty years, contributed an average of $6,000 a year (or $120,000) to the London Missionary Society.

—It is proposed to hold a World's Sunday-school Convention in London, July 1-4, 1889. Six hundred representative workers from the United States will probably attend.

—Mrs. Mary C. Patten, ninety-three years old, has had charge of the infant class in a Methodist Sabbath-school in Taunton, Mass., for forty-eight years. She never misses a session.

—A church for deaf-mutes has just been consecrated at Philadelphia. It is the only one of the kind in America, and the only one in the world entirely managed by the deaf.

—Dakota, with its Indian population of 30,000, has proved to be a most fruitful missionary field for Roman Catholics. There are seventeen priests, twelve churches, and twenty-six schools, for 4,100 Catholic Indians. Bishop Marty says: "All will become Catholics if we can reach and teach them."