Earlier text: Divine Revelation in Jesus—It is said that there are not more than twenty houses in the whole Samoan group where there is not a Bible and family worship. —“General” Booth complains that the members of the Salvation Army have not made noise enough in this country. They couldn’t very well make more, unless they increase their numbers. —A congress of evangelical workers is soon to be held in Mexico, representing all denominations now engaged in that fiercely contested field of labor. The Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, and Methodist Church South constitute the nucleus of the movement. —Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary of State, following the Pope’s instructions, has sent circulars to all the papal nuncios abroad directing their attention to the principal political and ecclesiastical questions of the day, and urging them to cultivate good relations with the different Governments, with a view toward improving the situation of the church throughout the world. —The Sunday-School Times very pertinently says: “It sounds comical to hear an ordinary congregation of well-dressed, comfortable-looking people singing: ‘Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow thee.’ Think of a woman with a silk gown on, and a stuffed bird in her hat, standing up and singing: ‘Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be.’” —Says the Christian at Work: “If the Catholic and Protestant do not lie down together like the prophetic lion and lamb, at least they are very good friends. And why not?” No reason why not. But when “the prophetic lion and lamb” lie down together, the lion’s nature will have been changed; but the Catholic lion’s nature has not changed in the least, and therefore when the Protestant lamb lies down with it, by some mysterious means only the lion will be seen. —The will of the late Samuel J. Tilden is to be contested. —Alcohol is now manufactured in the Azores from sweet potatoes. —A fire in the Ohio State Prison, on the 20th inst., caused a loss of $40,000. —October 17 was the 350th anniversary of the martyrdom of William Tyndale. —Senator Edmunds of Vermont has been re-elected to the United States Senate. —Prince Alexander declines to be a candidate for re-election to the Bulgarian throne. —October 23, the business portion of the town of Farmington, Maine, was almost totally destroyed by fire. —October 22, Summerville, S. C., was visited by quite a severe earthquake which wrecked over seventy chimneys. —It is stated that during the last two months, no less than 40,000 persons have died in Corea from contagious diseases. —The great object glasses for the Lick telescope have at last been completed without accident, and are ready for delivery. —King Otto of Bavaria, like Ludwig, his predecessor, is a lunatic, and becoming worse. He insists on remaining in solitude. —It is now stated that Russia, Turkey, and France are entirely agreed that the British occupation of Egypt must cease. —It is said that in 1840 only seven occupations were open to women in the United States; now there are more than three hundred. —Major-General Macpherson, commander of the British army of occupation in Burmah, died recently of fever, after but two days’ illness. —Within the last nine months no less than $83,000,000 has been invested in manufacturing and mining enterprises in the Southern States. —The Czar of Russia is said to have a most violent temper. Only a few days since, while in one of his fits of anger he murdered his chamberlain. —For several years past the loss by fire in the month of August has averaged about $7,000,000; but this year it was nearly double that amount. —The next Italian budget will contain a credit of 250,000 lire for changing rifles, completing forts, and providing for an additional squadron of cavalry. —Geronimo and his band are to be confined at Fort Pickens, Fla., till further orders from the War Department. The women and children will be sent to Fort Marion. —The total loss by fire in the United States and Canada for the first eight months of this year amounted to $76,500,000, as against $65,500,000 for the corresponding time last year. —Cholera is subsiding in Japan; but small-pox is reported to have broken out in Okinawa-ken, and 257 persons are said to have been attacked by the disease from August 24 to September 13, of whom forty-four died. —The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, which has for some time been in session at Richmond, Va., adjourned October 20. A resolution appealing for mercy for the condemned Anarchists at Chicago, was passed. —So far this year, New England fishermen have suffered the loss of twenty-seven vessels valued at $173,000. One hundred and sixteen men have also been lost; twenty-eight women have been made widows, and fifty-six children rendered fatherless. —Cold weather prevailed along the Hudson River on the 17th and 18th inst. 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