Religious Notes | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 1.

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Religious Notes.

—The German Baptists, or Tunkers, have 710 churches, 1,665 ministers, and 90,000 communicants.

—There are said to be 110 theological seminaries in this country belonging to the evangelical denominations.

—In 1877 the pilgrims to the Vatican numbered 34,508; in 1878, 13,625; in 1879, 10,171; and last year 10,827.

—The Methodist Episcopal Church proposes to raise a fund of $25,000 for building chapels in Sweden and Norway.

—One of the Jewish congregations in New York has decided that hereafter men shall remove their hats in public worship.

—Dr. Delitzsch, the eminent German scholar, thinks that the site of the garden of Eden was the same as the site of the ancient city of Babylon.

—Messrs. Moody and Sankey are less successful in drawing large audiences in England than on their former visit, and have less assistance from the local clergy.

—The stipend of Protestant ministers in Germany is so small that they are obliged to raise additional sums by charging fees for baptisms and marriages whenever celebrated at a private house or with special ceremony.

—The negotiations between the Vatican and Russia, says a Catholic letter from Rome, though proceeding slowly, promise to be successful. The Pope is gratified with the spirit of concession shown by the Russian Government.

—The Reformed Episcopal Church has been in existence eight years, beginning with nine clergymen, including bishop Cummins, and twenty laymen. It now has 110 clergymen, and about 7,000 communicants. It has church property valued at $915,000, exclusive of incumbrances.

—The statistics of the Baptist churches of Maine show the number of baptisms for the year to be 291, or less than for any year since 1849, when there were 231. Five churches numbering 84 members, have been dropped from the list. There are 317 less members than were reported last year.