RELIGIOUS NEWS | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 7, 1878

RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—The gospel of John has been issued in the Nez Perces language, by the Presbyterian Board.

—Fifty churches have been built and paid for within the past year by the colored Baptists of Virginia.

—The aggregate of church debts in the city of New York is $7,770,314, and the total value of church property $56,101,600.

—The American Missionary Association has reduced its indebtedness from $62,816 to less than $50,000 since October last.

—In 1850, the Catholic bishops in the United States held $9,000,000 worth of property. They now hold $110,000,000 worth.

—It is reported that the deceased Pope left a fortune of $3,500,000, which is mostly in the hands of, and has been manipulated by, the Rothschilds.

—The first Presbyterian church of Cleveland, Ohio, pays its choir and organist $2,000 per year; St. Paul’s church, $2,050; and Trinity, $1,700.

—This year is the hundredth since the introduction of Roman Catholicism into Boston. They propose to commemorate the event in some public way.

—George Muller has been preaching with great success in Charleston and Columbia, S. C., and other southern cities. He will soon come to California, and will proceed to England in June.

—The number of Mormons in Scandinavia is stated to be 2,249 in Denmark, 1,606 in Sweden, 892 in Norway, and 15 in Iceland. During the course of last year, 583 persons emigrated from Scandinavia to Utah.

—Nearly fifteen thousand converts have been added to the Protestant churches in China during the past year, and there are now in that land more than one hundred self supporting congregations.

—Spurgeon’s church has nearly 5,000 members. At the orphanage connected with the Tabernacle 250 boys are clothed, fed and instructed. Forty-five colporteurs are employed by the congregation. The pastor’s college, missions, and Sunday-schools are maintained. It requires nearly $1,500 per week to sustain the Stockwell orphanages and other institutions.

—The following estimate is made of the numbers adhering to the several forms of religious faith held by the English-speaking peoples all over the world: Episcopalians, 17,500,000; Methodists, 13,500,000; Roman Catholics, 13,250,000; Presbyterians, 10,000,000; Baptists, 8,000,000; Congregationalists, 7,000,000; Unitarians, 1,000,000; minor religious sects, 3,000,000; unclassified, 7,000,000. This makes a total of 80,250,000.