RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES
8%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 29, 1878
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 33.
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- There are now 19,872 Sunday-schools in the Methodist Episcopal church.
- The number of churches and of converts in Japan have doubled within the past year.
- The young ladies of Packer Institute, Brooklyn, support three missionary teachers in Japan.
- Eleven young ladies are studying at the London Medical school in preparation for missionary work in India and Africa.
- The churches in Scotland are pretty generally engaged in making collections for the China Famine Fund, and with gratifying results.
- A translation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress has just been completed in the Russian language, and is published in a cheap popular edition.
- What is said to have been the largest Japanese audience a missionary has ever had at one time numbered 3,000 and was accorded Mr. Atkinson, an American missionary, assisted by a native pastor and an ex-minister of the government.
- The work of the New York city Mission and Tract Society for July was as follows; with forty missionaries, 512 meetings were held, 3,696 visits made, 6,174 tracts distributed, and 517 families aided. The receipts were $1,055; payments, $3,382; debt, $17,595.
- The largest church organization in Atlanta, Ga., is the First Colored Baptist, with a membership of 1,450. Two of the white churches have 500 members each. Fifteen out of the forty churches are Baptist. The colored Baptists of Georgia have bought the land and are about to establish a college of a high grade in Atlanta.
- The efforts to utilize the Paris Exposition for religious purposes have assumed large proportions. The London Tract Society has distributed there 350,000 copies of its publications. The New York Sabbath Committee have sent over 20,000 copies of an essay on the "Sabbath in the United States." The Bible societies are also distributing cheap Bibles and Testaments in various languages, and in great numbers.
- In proportion to population, the Bible has been more exclusively bought and spread in Spain during the last ten years, than in either France or Italy. In Madrid there are five settled Protestant congregations, with a considerable regular attendance, besides four schools well attended. In Seville there are two congregations and schools. In Barcelona, three congregations and large schools. In most of the cities and towns there is at least one Protestant congregation and school, larger or smaller.