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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 17, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 24.

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FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 10.

RELIGIOUS.

-In 1849 there were only twelve medical missionaries in all the non-Christian world; now there are four hundred, and every year sees an addition to the number.
-Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip, S. T. D., LL.D., bishop of the Episcopal Church of California for the last forty years, died in San Francisco on the 7th inst., aged 81 years and 6 months.
-According to the last census there are in the United States, in round numbers, 140,000 churches, with an aggregate value of $980,000,000. The various church educational institutions are valued at $150,000,000.
-And now we have the time fixed for the millennium. Rev. M. A. Gault, of National Reform repute, calculates that "the world's crisis will be reached about 1896, and will be followed by a reconstruction period of fifty years, when the probability is the millennium will be fully inaugurated."
-The Ram's Horn, a religious paper which has become somewhat noted by the popularity of its pithy paragraphs, has been removed to Chicago. It will hereafter be sold on the street by uniformed newsboys. Two young graduates of the Advance office have been added to the editorial corps.
-At the dedication ceremonies of the great Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, which have been in progress since the 6th inst., there are many bombastic speeches. Amongst other boastful remarks, Brigham Young Jr. is reported to have said that politics is as important to the Latter-day Saints as religion. He predicted that the Mormons are destined to become powerful politicians as well as saints, and become the rulers of the universal world.
-At one of the churches in San Francisco, not long since, as the minister was about to commence his sermon, he was noticed anxiously hunting through various pockets, but evidently without success. He then apologized to the audience, stating that through an unfortunate accident no sermon would be delivered, as he had forgotten to bring his notes with him. Imagine, if you can, Paul, or Silas, or Timothy, or Peter, in such a predicament.