RELIGIOUS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 42.

RELIGIOUS.

—The Methodist Episcopal publishing house in Lucknow, India, employs 150 hands and runs six steam printing presses.

—A Missionary Conference is being agitated by the London Missionary Society, to be held in that city in May or June of next year.

—It is expected that the International Sunday School Convention, soon to convene in St. Louis, will take decisive measures for the improvement of the method of preparing lessons, the present system being extensively criticised in an adverse manner.

—The yearly meeting of the Free Baptists of Wisconsin, recently in session at Milwaukee, adopted resolutions announcing the liquor license system as a device of the devil, and declaring that no party is worthy the support of Christians which does not advocate prohibition.

—Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has at last surrendered, and bowed to the authority of Monsignor Satolli, the papal ablegate to the United States. No one knows better than Corrigan the folly of protracted disregard of the papal will by one who expects to hold a prominent place in the church.

—The new device of a Brooklyn, N. Y., pastor of attracting young men to church by having young ladies act as ushers is condemned by both secular and religious journals. A New York daily well says that if there is not sufficient power in the Christian religion to attract and hold the young men, there is no use in attracting them.

—The bishop of Rochester, England, in presenting to the house of bishops the report of a joint committee on the Sunday Opening of Museums, recently, took occasion to modify the opinion he had formerly expressed, that the working classes were against the opening. He said it was now impossible for him to hold this opinion in face of the two-to-one vote of the Trades Union Congress in favor of it, and of a similar expression of the London Trades Council.

—The Omaha correspondent of the New York Voice sends to his paper a considerable list of buildings in that city, owned by wealthy church members, which are occupied as saloons and other dens of infamy. He reports "ten open gambling hells," with no effort on the part of the authorities to enforce the State law against them. But they are not open on Sunday, and it is probably for this reason that certain other classes do not attempt to enforce the law against them.

—According to the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the baptism of a child has no bearing whatever upon the salvation of the said child dying in infancy.—N. Y. Christian Advocate. Then at what time could the baptism of an infant have any bearing on its salvation? In other words, what possible benefit can baptism be to an infant if the rite has no bearing upon its salvation. This is about the squarest admission of the utter futility of so-called infant baptism that we have ever heard from an advocate of the absurdity.

—The religious war between the Hindus and Mohammedans in the city of Bombay, India, was again renewed last week, and the rioters were for a time beyond control of the authorities. The Hindus retaliated on the Mohammedan attempt to desecrate their temple, and burned several mosques. Many people were injured, and the reports expressed fears that the trouble would spread throughout the province. If the contest should continue, the Mohammedans must necessarily be the greater sufferers, as the Hindus greatly outnumber them. In the city of Bombay the Hindu population is over 500,000, while the Mohammedans number about 160,000.