News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 40.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Episcopalian diocese of California has been divided into two dioceses.

—The latest Sunday-school statistics foot up as follows in the United States: Number of schools, 101,324; scholars, 8,345,431; teachers, 1,100,104.

—When culture, so called, increases, and reverence declines, among a people, it is time to consider what sort of a culture it is.—Nashville Christian Advocate.

—It appears from the Year Book of the Church of England that in 1875 the number of persons confirmed in England was under 138,000, while for 1888 the corresponding total was over 217,000.

—The Southern California Baptist Association, which has just closed its session at San Diego, made two attempts to settle the question of admitting colored students to the Los Angeles University, but the matter was tabled and left there.

—The number of Roman Catholics in Ireland is 3,792,457; the churches number 2,547, and the priests 3,251. In England the Catholic population numbers 1,353,465, the priests 2,340, and the churches 1,261. In Scotland there are 308,643 Catholics, 295 churches, and 329 priests.

—A plan is under discussion, in Episcopal Church circles in India, for the establishment of a Christian university. The idea is to build up an institution of the highest grade, under the exclusive control of Christians, in which the study of the Bible will be required of all who attend, and by which degrees in divinity, as well as in the arts and sciences, shall be given. Government aid is to be invoked.