p. 430 | RELIGIOUS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 15, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 27.

RELIGIOUS.

—The Bible has to be printed in twenty-nine different languages to supply the people living in Pennsylvania.

—The total number of Jesuits scattered over the globe in purely missionary work is 2,377. These are of various nationalities, but the vast majority are French.

—The total number of adherents of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa is about 210,000, with 417 priests and 954 educational institutions. In north Africa the converts number 114,825; in west Africa, 31,700; in south Africa, 18,248; in east Africa, 16,300. The remainder are mostly in Madagascar and Mauritius. The total population of Africa is estimated at 300,000,000.

—The receipts of the Congregational Union for the year ending June 1 were $116,988.08, or $31,963.46 more than for the year before. The receipts for the first five months of 1889 were $68,000, or $13,000 more than for the corresponding months of 1888. There were completed in the year 99 houses of worship and 52 parsonages, or 19 more buildings than in 1888. There are outstanding pledges to 69 churches for aid in building houses of worship or parsonages, and money is in the treasury to meet these.