p. 46 | News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1889

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—D. L. Moody is holding revival services in San Francisco.

—Henry George recently addressed the clergymen of London from the City Temple pulpit—Dr. Joseph Parker's.

—Out of 553 converts to the English Church in Amritsar, India, since the establishment of the mission in 1852, 253 were from Islam.

—There are in the United States 1,240 Young Men's Christian Associations, with a membership of 180,000, and property worth $7,262,000.

—The Czar of Russia has in the last five years spent $300,000 in the erection of a beautiful church at Jerusalem, in memory of his mother.

—It is stated that the forces of so-called evangelical Protestantism in this country, by the most recent computation, consist of 107,200 churches, 82,723 ministers, and 11,869,000 members.

—The Kaiserwerth Deaconess Home, Germany, has 600 workers in various fields in Europe and Asia. Their hospital at Alexandria is said to be a model of skillful arrangement and Christian benevolence.

—For a long time Col. Elliott F. Shepard has been endeavoring to stop the Fifth Avenue, New York, stages running on Sunday; now his efforts are about to be crowned with success, Mr. Shepard having gained control of the Board of Directors.

—Cardinal Gibbons and the American bishops have informed the Pope that the sum of $8,000,000 has been collected for the Catholic University at Washington, and that the buildings are now in process of erection. The Cardinal and bishops request the concession of academic privileges to the university, and ask the Pope's approval of its statutes.