News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 47.

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 25.

RELIGIOUS.

—A World's Congress of Christians opposed to Secret Societies will be held in the Fine Arts Building of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, October 5.

—Cardinal Gibbons laid the corner stone of the new St. Cyprian's Church at Washington, D. C., on the 24th inst., the celebration being attended with great display.

—The Methodists of Iowa are extensively repudiating the Republican party because of the anti-prohibition and local option planks of the platform adopted by the recent State convention.

—A Berlin dispatch says: "Dr. Buchwald, of Leipsic, has discovered among forgotten manuscripts in the university at Jena, Martin Luther's political essay against the theological faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, which manuscript was supposed to have been lost."

—While some prominent Catholics are advocating temperance reform, the principle is not by any means general in that church. For instance, the secretary of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, which held a convention in Pittsburg a few weeks ago, was deposed from his office because he had become an active Prohibitionist. He had been an efficient officer for twenty-one years.

—Circulars are being sent out from Steubenville, Ohio, in explanation of "The Young People's Christian Political Union," an organization designed to secure a pledged membership giving its votes and influence only for the political party that makes the prohibition of the liquor traffic its dominant issue, educational qualification the test of suffrage, and moral issues the first place in the platform.

—A New Haven, Conn., dispatch of the 24th inst. says: "A Zulu fraud, who has been operating in the West, was arrested in Zion M. E. Church tonight while delivering a sermon, and placed in jail on a charge of swindling. The information on which he was taken into custody was received from the Milwaukee police, the man having secured a considerable sum of money in that city on false pretences and had then taken a somewhat hasty departure."

—The pastor of the Howard Street Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, who recently went on a four days' spree and tour of the "dives," in company with a young Berkeley student, leaving his Sunday night appointment unprovided for, has resumed his pulpit, the congregation having declined to accept his resignation. He has the temerity to make such a comparison as the following, and his people evidently accept it: "Jesus consorted with publicans and sinners; his holy mission was to save them that were lost. Jesus went into the dives. He saw Mary Magdalen and spoke to her in words of love and hope."