News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 22, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 28.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—Rev. Jacob Freshman has opened a Jewish Mission in Jerusalem.

—Four ministers and five ministers' families were among those who lost their lives in the Johnstown flood.

—Thomas E. Sherman took the oath of the Jesuit priesthood, and was formally ordained by Archbishop Ryan at Philadelphia, July 7.

—Russia has re-adopted the law which forbids heirs to the throne contracting marriage with persons not members of the Orthodox Greek Church.

—Charles Randolph Uncles, a colored student of St. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, was recently ordained to the Catholic priesthood by Cardinal Gibbons. He is the first colored priest ever ordained in America.

—Dr. Marcus Dods, of Glasgow, the man who said in the great Pan-Presbyterian Council in London, that "it is the duty of the church to make it plain that faith in Christ is not bound up with faith in the infallibility of Scriptures," has been elected by the General Assembly of the Scottish Free Church to the chair of New Testament Exegesis in its Edinburg College.

—Among the decisions at the recent German Baptist Convention at Harrisburg, Va., were the following: "The question as to whether sisters should wear riding habits was taken up and the convention advised that no superfluities be worn. The question of whether gold watches could be worn was also taken up, and, after discussion, it was decided to be cause for expulsion from the church. It was also decided that attendance at places of amusement was wrong. No member who uses tobacco can be chosen as a delegate or put on the standing committee."

—It is stated that at the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, recently held at Honolulu, there was a sharp arraignment of the methods of the Catholic priests who have charge of the leper children, and forbid the reading of the Bible, or attendance on the religious meetings of the two evangelical churches at the settlement. A committee was appointed to bring this matter to the notice of the Board of Health, and secure for the children religious training in the faith of their parents. It was proposed to raise $5,000 to build a new Children's Home, to be under more liberal management, and $500 were pledged at once. It was voted that the committee procure plans for building, and secure suitable persons to take charge. If none are to be found in America, it was said that competent persons could readily be secured in Germany.