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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 37.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Bible in Japanese, with maps and the usual references, can be bought for sixty cents.

—The Roman Catholics have a cathedral in Peking, China, built and presented to them by the Emperor himself.

—Thirty thousand out of the forty thousand people of Jerusalem are Hebrews; the city has 150 synagogues, but most of them are small.

—The ninth annual general conference of the Swedish Baptist Church in the United States convened at Kansas City, Mo., September 12.

—A Mohammedan mosque has been built in Woking, England, and a Buddhist temple has been opened in Paris. There are about three hundred Buddhists in Paris.

—Christianity was first introduced into the Samoan Islands over fifty years ago. The present population of this group is 35,000. Church members, 5,974, and 15,734 adherents; eight English missionaries, and 177 native teachers and preachers.

—A little Moslem child accounted for the preference for the Christian religion by saying: “I like your Jesus because he loves little girls.” With unerring instinct she had seized upon at least one of the great differences between the two religions.

—Father Chiniquy, of Canada, is in his eighty-first year, but is still dealing powerful blows against his ancient enemy, the church of Rome. He is, with one exception, the oldest ex-Catholic priest now living, and is as hale and vigorous as most men of sixty.

—On account of the intervention of a number of bishops in the recent French election, the minister of public worship has issued a circular forbidding priests to interfere with political matters, or to exercise pressure upon the consciences of their flocks, under heavy penalties.