News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 25.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—During the past year, 158 students received instruction in the Congregational Theological Seminary in Chicago.

—It is stated that the Methodist Episcopal Church South, appropriates $17,000 from the book concern profits for their conference laborers.

—Hereafter, all the courses of instruction in the Hartford (Conn.) Theological Seminary will be open to women on the same terms as to men.

—The Young Men's Christian Association in America owns property to the value of $8,451,012. The current expenses of the association last year were $1,449,669.

—The Chicago Baptists are working earnestly to raise the $350,000 necessary to secure the $1,500,000 from Mr. Rockafeller, for the founding of a denominational university in that city.

—A letter to the London Anti-slavery Society says that the Mahdists have made Western Abyssinia a desert. Thousands of Christians have been made slaves, and many others killed. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed.