Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Their areeixty-eight tribes of Indians in our country without Christian misionaries. There are more than 500 Baptist churches in Burmah, with over 25,000 communicants. The missionary work of the Religious Tract Society in London is carried on in 186 different language. There are in the Church of England 100 clergymen, converts from Judaism, and over 3.000 communicants. j/Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria’s faVorite daughter, is a spiritualist and she says she doesn’t care who knows it. What you want to do that is good and approved of your conscience, without the opportunity to do so, are germs of immortality. 5 ■ 4

Twenty years ago the gospel was not allowed to enter Spain; now there are between 10,000 and 12,000 adherents to the evangelical churches. Dr. Talmage is to have an assistant, Rev. Ralph Brokaw. Dr. Talmage will preach, Mr. Brokaw giving himself mostly to pastoral work.

0 young man, leave not open the garden gates of your heart for the swine to come in and trample down the flower beds of the graces of your God! t Senator and Mrs. Hearst have just given a handsome sum to a Hebrew congregation in San Francisco toward the erection of a new synagogue. Almeron: The best and noblest lives are those which are set toward high ideals. And the highest and noblest ideal that any man can have is Jesus of Nazareth. • , .", Dr. Guthrie: Heaven is the -day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit, of which grace is the lovely dower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court. Fenlon; God’s treasury where He keeps His children’s gifts will be like a mother’s store of relics for herchildren, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love’s sake that was in them.

The Seventh day Adventists are now working in America, Switzerland, Norway, England and Austria. They publish twenty-three religious periodicals in English, German, French, Danish, Swedish, Italian and Roumanian? More than twenty ministers are in their employ.

W. B. Balfern: We are not sent to feed the people with the products of our own wisdom much less with our difficulties, doubts, and uncertainties-these will not build them up in spiritual life and holiness—but with the meaning of- His wisdom and words, who is himself the bread of life. There are 205 communities of the Greek church in Japan, with sixteen priests and 104 native preachers, and the number of Japanese converts to that religion is 12,500. The number of churches and prayer-houses is 148, and three children's schools, with a total of 150 pupils.

It was in 1810 that the American Board, the first foreign missionary society in this country, was formed; since then it has received from the church on its world-wide mission work over $lB, 000,000. During this period the contributions to all the foreign mission socie ties of the countrv have amounted to over $57,000,000.