News and Notes
7%International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1889
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 33.
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RELIGIOUS.
- Rome has already five Jewish synagogues and another is projected.
- Pennsylvania has a total of 1,088,083 Sunday-school scholars and teachers.
- The British and Foreign Bible Society prints the Bible in 300 different tongues.
- One hundred and eighty-two churches were burned in the United States last year.
- It is said that more than ten per cent. of the Indians in America are church members.
- A Young Men's Christian Association for French-speaking young men has been established in New York City.
- Of the 482 theological and religious books published in this country last year, 339 were the work of American authors.
- Last year the agents of the American Bible Society visited 5,668,000 families and found 370,000 of them with no Bibles.
- There are about one thousand Christian Chinamen in California and Oregon. They contribute $2,500 a year for Home Mission Work, and have sent two missionaries to China.
- In 1883 the population of India was 253,891,821. Of these nearly 188,000,000 were Hindus, 50,000,000 Mohammudans, more than 6,000,000 native worshipers, 1,863,000 Sikhs; while the Christians numbered 1,862,335.
- The Congress of Chili has failed to pass the Constitutional Reform bill, which would have disestablished the Roman Catholic Church; but has granted a charter to the Presbyterian Mission, which gives the right to worship and to hold property.
- The Presbytery of New Brunswick has answered the overture on "Revision of the Confession of Faith," as follows: "The Presbytery of New Brunswick, having carefully considered the overture in relation to the 'Revision of the Confession of Faith,' proposed by the General Assembly, respectfully replies as follows: This Presbytery does not desire any revision of the Confession of Faith." This represents the opinion of the Faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary.