News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 34.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Three-fourths of the population of Chicago never enter a Christian church of any kind.

—Rev. Archibald McLean of Cincinnati has been elected to the presidency of Bethany College.

—England has over one million dollars invested in the manufacture of idols for heathen countries, and yet churches of that country are continually calling for more money and more missionaries to suppress idolatry.

—It is only eighteen years since the first newspaper was published in Japan, and now, 575 daily and weekly papers are issued from the press; 35 law magazines, 111 scientific periodicals; 35 medical journals, and an equal number of religious periodicals are published.

—Religious jealousy in India between Hindoos and Mohammedans is said to be fit to involve the entire country in war the moment the British authorities should be withdrawn. Lately a Mussulman procession to celebrate a convert was attacked with great fury and some fatalities were the result.

The University Press edition of the English Bible contains a manifest error, which gives an entirely wrong meaning to the text. It is the seventeenth verse of the eleventh chapter of Zechariah, which reads, "Woe to the idol shepherd." The word "idol" should be "worthless." In the Revised Version it is so rendered.

—The African Methodist church, which has not a white man among its members or any organic relation with any white church organization, reports a membership of 460,000. It has 12,000 places of worship, numbers 10,000 ministers, has 15,000 Sabbath-schools, supports its own denominational papers, has missions in the West Indies, Mexico, and Africa, and its reported contributions foot up more than $2,000,000 annually for the support of church work.