News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 11.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The United States and Canada have about 140,000 Sunday-schools.

—Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, is holding revival meetings in San Francisco.

—John D. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the American Baptist Educational Society, payable at the rate of $10,000 per month, and subject to the condition that the giver be advised in advance as to the use to be made of his money.

—Prince Bismarck is one of the trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association at Berlin, and the emperor has given 5,000 marks for the new association building, about to be erected on Wilhelm's Strasse. This can, however, scarcely be taken as positive evidence that either the prince or the emperor are Christians.

—The presbytery of Detroit of the United Presbyterian Church has formally decided to withdraw from that denomination and to unite itself with the presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. It is further announced that twenty of the twenty-three United Presbyterian churches of Michigan will take like action. "This action," says the Christian at Work, "has been made probable, indeed almost inevitable, from the repealing by the United Presbyterian General Assembly of the prohibition against the use of the organ; there is now no question of principle separating the two bodies, and it looks as if the United Presbyterian Church were destined to virtually disappear as a distinct denomination, though a number of churches opposed to the organ will undoubtedly adhere to the 'united' name and organization."