News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 28, 1889

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The United States has 10,000 Woman's Christian Temperance Unions, comprising a membership of 150,000.

—In Scotland there are 750,000 people who have no church connection of any kind, and a Glasgow clergyman says that the want of sociability among the members is one of the chief causes that keep people away from church.

—The Gustavus Adolphus Society, of Germany, which aims specially to establish Protestant churches in Roman Catholic countries, has erected 1,398 churches and 701 school buildings during the last fifty-six years. It reports immediate need of 314 more church buildings.

—The seventy-second report of the American Bible Society shows that the cash disbursements for the year 1888 were $506,453.46, for general purposes. The cash receipts for general purposes were $557,340.18. In addition to this $4,971.28 was received for permanent investment.

—A conference was recently held in Chicago to consider the question of how to secure enough ministers and those who were good enough. The conference was composed of home missionary superintendents, college presidents, and prominent ministers of the Congregational Church.

—According to the report of the Utah Commission, during the past year different denominations have had in operation in that Territory 90 schools, attended by 7,442 pupils. Of this number the Presbyterian Church conducted 33 schools, the Congregational 22, the Methodist 20, the Catholic 7, Episcopalians 5, Baptist 2, Swedish 1.

—The Synod of Missouri, belonging to the Southern Presbyterian Church, at its late meeting declared that in its opinion the action of the Southern General Assembly at Baltimore declining further negotiations touching the union of the Church North and South was not "for the best interests of Presbyterian Christianity in Missouri and in the country at large."

—It is stated that Pandita Ramabai, the Hindoo woman who came to the United States two years ago to raise money to build a college for the education of Indian women, has returned to her home with upward of $80,000. She was accompanied by Dr. Emma B. R. Ryder, who will have charge of the women's hospital connected with the college, and will lecture in the regular college course.

—The three Roman Catholic cardinals in England are all over eighty years of age. Cardinal Newman is the famous Dr. Newman, who left the Anglican Church more than forty years ago to become a priest of Rome. Dr. Manning, of Westminster, is also a convert from the Established Church of England, and is a great power in the Papal councils. Cardinal Howard is also an Englishman, but by birth a member of the Romish Church. He is a member of the powerful English family of which the Duke of Norfolk is the head.