News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 18.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Six hundred and forty-nine converts were received into membership at the Centennial Church (colored) in Baltimore, Md., on March 31.

—John Spaulding, D. D., secretary of the American Seamen's Friend Society, died at his residence in New York on the 30th inst., aged 89 years.

—The National Institute of the United States Presbyterian Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor was in session last week at Pittsburg, Pa.

—According to the Missionary Herald, the receipts of the American Board for seven months ending March 31 are $65,000 less on donations and legacies than for the same time last year.

—Twenty-two missionary societies in the United States are managed by women and supported by women; 751 missionaries are thus sustained. Last year these societies contributed $1,038,253.

—It is stated that a gentleman at Dayton, Ohio, claiming to be a converted Jew, recently made application to be appointed United States Consul at Jerusalem. His plea was, it seems, that being a converted Hebrew it was particularly desirous that he should be sent to the Holy Land to convert other Jews. His application was returned with this endorsement: "As the State Department is not an evangelical institution, the points herein made why the appointment should be made are not well taken." The gentleman's name is Dennis, and has a Papal rather than a Jewish ring.

—The daughter of a wealthy Hebrew in Columbia, S. C., recently married a young man not of her faith. The girl, who was the pride of her family, was mourned by them as dead. The house was draped in mourning and her funeral services conducted. A few days later, however, the husband of the young woman consented to embrace Judaism, whereupon there was great rejoicing among the friends of the family, and the couple were remarried by a rabbi according to the rites of the Jewish Church. Of course it is not to be supposed that the young man is any more a Jew in faith than formerly, but he has probably experienced about as much change as do very many who profess Christianity.