News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1893

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

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 6.

RELIGIOUS.

—The Christian at Work says: "Resolutions in favor of keeping our American Sunday are being adopted by religious bodies all over the country."

—One of the striking features of the late papal jubilee was the action of the czar of Russia in granting permission to collect subscriptions in his dominion for an offering at Rome.

—It is said that the Methodists feel that they have been unfairly treated because they are allotted only 400 square feet of space for an exhibit at the World's Fair, while the Catholics are allowed 20,000.

—News from San Salvador indicates a serious clash between the authorities of Church and State. The government threatens to expel the bishop unless the clerical press ceases its attacks on the President.

—President Cleveland specially requested that the design of the Inaugural Committee to extend the ceremonies to a concert on Sunday, the 5th inst., be not carried out. So that feature of the parade was postponed until Tuesday, the 7th.

—The Methodist ministers of Chicago, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution urging all small local Sunday unions throughout the country to coöperate with the American Sabbath Union in maintaining Sunday closing of the World's Fair.

—A London News dispatch from Rome says that the pope is greatly displeased by the abandonment of the American pilgrimage on the occasion of his recent jubilee. He attributes the abandonment of the undertaking to the disputes between Mgr. Satolli and the American bishops, and has ordered an inquiry. Of course the anticipated pilgrimage would have added considerable to the receipts of the occasion, as also to the appearance of universal allegiance.

—At the Methodist Conference in session last week at Hagerstown, Maryland, a committee was appointed to visit President Cleveland, Cardinal Gibbons, and Mgr. Satolli, and urge them to use their influence in behalf of the Rev. Mr. Nelson, a Methodist missionary, now imprisoned in Brazil. His arrest and imprisonment were caused, it is said, by statements made in his sermons concerning the patron saint of Brazil, which was offensive to the authorities.

—A fight ensued in a church in the rural district of Baden, Tennessee, on Sunday, the 26th ult., over the hoop-skirt innovation. A woman came into church arrayed in the balloon style, when someone made a remark which was resented by her husband. Several men engaged in the fight, and several came out with bleeding heads, while children screamed and women fainted. Tennessee is the State most noted for its fanatical endeavors to enforce the Sunday law against honest labor.

—The Protestant section of Ireland is bitterly opposed to the Gladstone home rule measure for Ireland, for the reason that if it carries the new government will be dominated by the Catholics. And it is authoritatively stated that thousands of Orangemen in Canada and Australia are preparing to assist their brethren in Ulster should the home rule proposition be successful. There is little doubt that home rule would, for a time at least, beget a religious-political contest between Catholics and Protestants in that turbulent island.