Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The revision committee apointed by the Presbyterian General Assembly will hold its first meeting in Pittsburg in October. The Sondan, which has a population of about sixty thousand people, has been almost tetotallv neglected by Protestants a field of missionary effort At Chisamba, Africa, the young people have asked the missionary to raise a flag Saturday evenings, that they may know that the next day is Sunday, and come, to the meetings. Of Pundita Ramabei, Professor Max Muller speaks thus in her praise: ‘ ‘Whether for unselfishness or devotion to high ideals, truthfulness, purity and real living religion I know no heroine greater than Ramabai.” From evangelistic services in Bridgeport, Conn.,in which nineteen churches united under the leadership of Rev. B. Fay Mills, it is estimated that 1.500 persons signed cards expressing their desire to begin the Christian life. It is reported that since the beginning of Lent no fewer than 100 members of the Church of England from one parish in’ North London have seceded to the Romish church," while the Baptists reckon 500 converts in Brighton. Bishop Mallalieu has purchased an excellent building on the corner of Canal and Robinson streets, New Orleans, for a medical school, which will be a department of New Orleans University. The property is worth $20,000. The United Presbyterian Church has conformed its statistical inquiry this year to the schedule of the Census Office. It reports 865 congregations, 103,921 church members, 815 churches with seating oapaeity of 262,303, end value $5,036,764. The Citizens League of High-license, Chicago, spends $8,500 a year for the maintenance of six men who look after the violators of the excise law., The league managers want to add seven men to the force, at an ad-' ditional cost of $6,500 annually.