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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 26.

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RELIGIOUS.

—The Presbyterians have raised a fund of $616,000 for disabled ministers.

—Sixty-seven students are studying for the priesthood in the American Catholic College at Rome.

—It is reported from Rome that Archbishop Corrigan of New York is soon to be made a cardinal.

—For every dollar given to convert the heathen in the United States, eighteen dollars are spent in amusement.

—It is stated that over 43,000,000 copies of Moody and Sankey's gospel hymn books have been issued in this country and in England.

—The Salvation Army in London, Eng., was attacked and dispersed by the police on the 26th ult., while marching along the streets.

—According to the last statistics the United Presbyterian Church in the United States had a total membership of 101,858. Its ministers number 753, of whom 243 are without charges. The total contributions of the denomination last year, for all purposes, amounted to about $1,110,853.

—The Missionary Herald says that “missionaries throughout the world are finding that one of the most effective ways of reaching the people for whom they labor, is to seek the conversion of the children. Men and women who have grown old in paganism are not easily moved from their superstitions. The young form the most hopeful class.”