p. 14 | News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1890

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—In the Methodist Tabernacle at Spokane Falls, Washington, an endowment fund of $80,000 for Spokane College was raised in a short time.

—Narayan Sheshadri is one of the college converts in India, and he has been the means of bringing a thousand heathen into the Christian fold.

—Six Italian cardinals will be created this month in view of the minority of the Italian Cardinalate as compared with the number of foreign cardinals.

—During a prayer-meeting at the house of Edward Randall, near Lebanon, Ind., on the evening of February 18, someone fired a shot through a window and fatally wounded Mrs. Randall.

—In the New Hebrides there is a babel of tongues, but the Presbyterian missionaries have reduced twelve of them to writing. The seventeen missionaries laboring on the group are all busy with the work of translation.

—Outside of the thousands of churches in London, there are 500 missionary workers. Each missionary calls on 500 families every month. They visit the slums and rum-holes, and are subjected to many dangers. During the warm season open-air meetings are held every day and night on the streets and in the parks.

—A new semi-religious order, called the Brothers of the Cross, will begin active operations in Paris on the 1st of May. It will be in sympathy with the various labor demonstrations, and stand on a platform of freedom in politics; but its main object will be to propagate religious socialism by a purely practical method, and will aim at securing the well being of humanity by a labor organization, reciprocal, fraternal, and universal in its character.

—Two Mormon elders in Marion County, Ala., who were engaged in making up a party for Utah, were ordered to leave. They went on with their preparations, and paid no attention to the order. The next night a party called upon them, took them to the woods, and gave them each fifty lashes; then the bleeding victims were covered with tar and dry leaves, and fire was applied to them. They ran to a creek not far distant, and jumped in, which the report says was the last seen of them. So says a dispatch from Birmingham.