News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 7.

RELIGIOUS.

—Evangelist B. Fay Mills has gone to Kansas City to conduct revival services.

—For the first time in America, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated in Chicago, October 30, by the pope's legate, Monsignor Sartolli.

—The Episcopalians are about to build a great church edifice in New York, and Cornelius Vanderbilt is to give $500,000 to the enterprise.

—A London paper says that a tribe in one of the remote districts of Russia recently sacrificed a peasant to appease the gods and avert another famine.

—A commission appointed more than 12 months ago by Bishop Potter to investigate the charges of heresy against Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, rector of All Souls' Church, has reported the charges as "not proved."

—Catherine Booth and Mrs. Gibborn, daughters of General Booth, of the Salvation Army, have been arrested at Geneva, Switzerland, and will be expelled from the Canton.

—Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the N. Y. Christian Advocate, says: "The energy of Protestantism has somewhat diminished; not a few Protestant ministers and editors are coqueting with Rome; and unless the great body are vigilant, the fable of the spider and fly will be reënacted."

—Dr. Ellis, of the presbytery of San Francisco, has been deposed from the ministry, for deception and unministerial conduct, "until he give satisfactory evidence of repentance." The charges grew out of his having brought a suit against the presbytery for $100,000 on account of a former conviction. He says he will appeal to the synod.

—A materialized spirit was caught and exposed at a séance in San Francisco, on the night of the 6th inst., and proved to be Professor Miller, who was conducting the entertainment. The entrance money was returned to the audience, but even then some foolish women insisted that the men who broke up the circle were "brutes." Some people enjoy being deceived.

—The mate and crew of the ship Campbell, lost in the Pacific Ocean a few weeks ago, were in a small boat 23 days, on very short allowance of water and food. Of their experience the mate says: "During the 23 days prayers were said by me twice a day. I think I prayed 50 times a day. Strange to say, all were answered except the prayers for rain. It was just punishment for our former sins, and it will turn out 11 good and true Christians." See Ps. 107:23-31.