RELIGIOUS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 16.

RELIGIOUS.

By Editor

—Mrs. Laura Francis, who, with her husband, was expelled from the Christian Church at Richmond, Kentucky, for adherence to the Illinois Schweinfurth heresy, has established a branch of the "Schweinfurth Heaven" near Lexington.

—The native population of Hawaii are opposed to annexation to the United States, and it is said that on a recent Sunday evening when a minister who has served many years among them but who is known to favor annexation, arose to preach to a native congregation, they all departed and left him talking to empty seats.

—The American Baptist Publication Society of Philadelphia has deputed three leading Baptist scholars, Dr. Alvah Hovey, Dr. John A. Broadus, and Dr. Henry G. Weston, to prepare a revised edition of the New Testament, formerly issued by the American Bible Union. "This," says the Advance, "they present in two forms, one of which, presumably for the use of the faithful, translates the word 'baptize' immerse, the other accommodating itself to the unbelieving by the ordinary translation baptize."

—As an illustration of how preternaturally silly some learned men of this world can be when they become infatuated with an idol, we give the following expression of Rev. Joseph Cook before a Congressional Special Committee on the Columbian Exposition: "Sunday is the tallest of the white angels now entering foreign lands. Shall we consent to allow Chicago now to rise up and stab this angel in the back, in our country? And shall we call down the goddess of liberty from the Capitol to assist at the murder? God forbid."