News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1892

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 21.

RELIGIOUS.

—The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Church has appropriated $1,310,000 for home and foreign work, besides $500,000 for women's home and foreign societies.

—A Rome dispatch of the 16th inst. says: "As soon as Mr. Cleveland's administration shall have been inaugurated in Washington, the Vatican will open negotiations for the establishment of a special United States Legation, and the reception at Washington of a Papal Nuncio."

—The leaders of the Salvation Army have called a convention of delegates from all the 1,100 Army posts in the United States and Canada, to meet in New York the present week. There are to be torchlight processions through the streets, and a noonday parade on Broadway.

—A conference of Roman Catholic archbishops of the United States is in session in New York City. A general discussion of the question of education is said to be the main point. At a reception in honor of Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Satolli, papal legate from Rome, President-elect Cleveland and Governor Flower, of New York, were present.

—The latest money-raising scheme for religious purposes is an entertainment called "living whist." It was recently played in the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, in aid of a Unitarian Church enterprise. Fifty-two persons represent a deck of cards, and are played by opponents on the same principle, the living cards dancing into position. The participants were dressed in costume, and "prominent society people" took an active part.

—As evidence that "there is no power in the Roman Catholic system of religion to elevate men above their natural condition," the Converted Catholic cites the fact that several of the leading pugilists are devout Catholics. The two at the head of the list, whose recent contest eclipsed even politics in popular interest, attended mass regularly while training for the fight, and the Boston representative is said to have put $50 in the collection plate the Sunday before entering the ring.

—The Jewish Exponent of a recent date contains this cutting comment: "There was a time when the synagogue authorities refused to give the Decalogue a place in the ritual lest the Pauline Christians, just coming into prominence, would hold this to be an indorsement of their teachings, and that so much constituted all of Judaism's laws and doctrines. Modern rabbis go beyond the backsliding Jews of that day, for they have no compunction even in making compromises with conflicting creeds."