News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 39.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—There are five French Protestant Churches in New England.

—London has a population of 2,600,000, and has church room for not over 600,000.

—The South Sea islanders at their last missionary meeting raised $1,531 for a new yacht to carry the gospel to New Guinea.

—A seminary for the education of missionaries among the Jews has been established at Leipzig, Germany; the second of its kind in the world.

—The Supreme Council of the Catholic Knights of America issued a circular last week requesting all members to celebrate the Pope's jubilee on Sunday, October 2.

—The revision of the Kaffir Bible has at length been brought to completion. For nearly twenty years the Board of Revisers has faithfully carried on this great work.

—Baltimore has 300 churches, chapels, and synagogues. As to communicants, the Roman Catholic Church stands first, the Methodist second, the Lutheran third, the Baptist fourth, the Presbyterian fifth, and the Jewish sixth.

—The Roman Catholic Church has in Great Britain 1,600 chapels, 224 monasteries, 415 convents, 29 colleges, and 2,599 priests. The gains since 1870 have been as follows: chapels, 256; monasteries, 155; convents, 182; colleges, 9, and priests, 872.

—Melbourne, Australia, with a population of 350,000, has church accommodation for 107,620. The total attendance on public worship, Sunday morning and evening, is 113,107. The Church of England leads, Presbyterians follow, Wesleyans are third, and Roman Catholics are fourth.

—Within the last twenty-five years over 100,000 copies of the Bible have been circulated in Greece, besides thousands among the Greek residents in Turkey. The Government permits the free dissemination of the Scriptures, and protects colporters against the opposition of the Greek Church.