News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 31.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Rev. Horatio Bonar died at Edinburgh, Scotland the 31st ult.

—There are about 3,000,000 Protestants in the Russian Empire.

—It is officially stated by the United States Minister in China that there are resident within that empire 1,022 American citizens. Of them 506 are missionaries.

—The Missionary Herald for August says that for the first ten months of the financial year the receipts of the American Board were over $44,000 less than for the corresponding months of last year.

—The American Bible Society is doing a large work in foreign lands. Within a year it has distributed in other lands, no less than 509,782 copies of one or both Testaments or portions of them.

—A call has been issued for a general congress of the Catholic laity of the United States, to be held at Baltimore, November 11 and 12, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in this country.

—An organized band of fifty men has determined to put a stop to the fanaticism existing among the colored people in Georgia. It is said that four people have gone raving mad, and over three hundred have had their minds unbalanced as the result of the teachings of Bell and his successors.

—The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society will send a deputation to the conference called by Cardinal Lavigerie for the suppression of the slave trade. Among the topics to be discussed are, "The Support of Missions," "Introduction of Legitimate Commerce," "Prohibition of the Importation of Arms and of Spirituous Liquors," etc.

—The present membership of the Christian Endeavor Society is not known, but it is said to exceed more than a quarter of a million. It is extending itself at the rate of nearly one hundred new societies, per week. Nor is this all; In some denominations which have not yet adopted the name, similar organizations have been formed known as leagues and guilds. These owe their existence to the same impulse.