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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 30.

News and Notes.

RELIGIOUS.

—The Government has totally suppressed the Lutheran Church in Russia.

—Bishop Walsh, of London, Ont., was elected archbishop of Toronto July 24.

—Chan Chu Sing, a converted Chinaman, has received license as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles.

—It is said that the Methodist Episcopal Church has now a membership of 2,154,237 against 2,093,935 last year; a net gain of over 60,000.

—There are now eighty-two medical missionaries in China, the majority of whom are from the United States; sixteen of them are female physicians.

—At the World's Sunday-School Convention recently held in London, there were 900 foreign delegates, 300 of whom were from the United States.

—The Spanish Government has forbidden any demonstration calculated to encourage the Pope to come to Spain in the event of his leaving Rome.

—The Shanghai Mercury is authority for the statement that the Government of Korea has again forbidden the teaching of Christianity to the natives.

—Father Curley, director of Georgetown University, died at Washington, D. C., July 24. He was the oldest living priest in the United States, if not in the world.

—A recent effort to learn how many of the 1,300 policemen of Chicago were Protestants resulted in showing that only about 225 were not subject to Jesuit dictation.

—According to the statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, the average salary of its ministers is $998. The highest average attained was in 1875, when it was $1,012.

—The reunion between the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in Japan has again been postponed. It is now thought to be questionable whether the union will be made at all.

—The Jewish Messenger notes the fact that at the dedication of the Catholic Cathedral at Sacramento, Cal., in June, a check was received for $178 from the B'nai Israel Synagogue, as an offering to the Catholic poor.

—The first woman ever ordained among the Baptists is Rev. May C. Jones, ordained in 1882 by the First Baptist Church of Seattle. She is now at Spokane Falls, and is preaching to a large congregation on a salary of $1,200 a year.

—Icelanders are numerous enough in this country and Canada to maintain a distinct religious organization of their own, known as the Icelandic Lutheran Church of America. It consists of twenty-two congregations, and recently held its fifth annual conference at Argyle, in Manitoba.

—Among the interesting facts brought out at the World's Sunday-school Convention, recently opened in London, was the statement that 10,000,000 people study the International lessons. These lessons are not used in France and Switzerland. The subjects are considered too difficult for the children.

—The revised edition of the Catholic prayer-book, authorized by the Council of Baltimore in 1884, will, it is said, shortly take the place of the books which have been in use hitherto. This book is so arranged that the entire service of the mass for every Sunday in the year can be followed by the congregation just as it is said by the priest. The proof-sheets have been submitted to every Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States, and the book will have the unanimous endorsement of the hierarchy.