News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 20.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Southern General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church convened at Chattanooga, Tenn., the 17th inst.

—The police of Kieff, Russia, recently discovered that a Jew 105 years old had been living in that city for over 50 years without being in possession of a passport. The poor patriarch was ordered by the guardians of the law to quit Kieff at once.

—The fifty-seventh annual session of the American Baptist Home Mission Society met at Boston, Mass., the 17th inst. The report of the committee on States shows the largest number of missionaries ever under appointment. There are now 3,000,000 Baptists in this country.

—The Baptist Missionary Union will soon establish a new mission in Swei-fu, in the province of Sz-chuen, about 1,600 miles from the sea, on the river Yangtse. The province has a population of from thirty to forty millions of people, but very few of whom have ever heard the gospel.

—A unique class was confirmed in Baltimore recently by Bishop Paret, of the Episcopalian Church. Besides nine colored candidates it included Miss Nellie Blaine, daughter of the Secretary of State, the sister-in-law of Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court, and the daughter of the late Justice Matthews, of the Supreme Court.

—"A new society," says The Peculiar People, "called the Montefiore and Lady Judith Hebrew Association, is being formed in New York for the benefit of Jewish immigrants in that city. Its object is, we believe, by the advice and co-operation of such men as are familiar with the language and nature of the immigrants, to Americanize them and provide employment for them.

—The colored Episcopalians in South Carolina are not yet satisfied with their position in the Protestant Episcopal Church. A compromise was offered in the convention proposing to admit colored ministers who have been in the church twelve months prior to May 18, 1888. There is no provision for lay delegates. This does not satisfy the colored churches. They threaten to carry the case to the General Convention.