Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Secretary Mabie, of the American Baptist Missionary Union, is to visit the foreign missions of that society, Mr. George A. Pillsberry, of Minneapolis, paviDg all the expenses of the journey. r The highest church spire in the world has just been completed. It is that of the Cathedral at Ulm, Wurtemberg, and is 530 feet high. The top of the cross on the dome of St. Peters, Rome, is 448 feet above the pavement. ■ A jubilee of the Baptist mission, in Denmark; was recently held in Copenhagen. It was there reported that (5,000 persons have been baptized since the founding of the mission, the pres- , ent membership being 2,700. The number of missionary stations is Africa- now exceeds .500.. .There, are' 400,000 converts, and the number a increasing at the rate of 25,000 ayoai. Within five years more than 200 natives have suffered martyrdom for their faith. Several Christian ladies propose to conduct a normal class for the promotion of juvenile temperance work in New York and vicinity. First principles will be given, and methods stated and illustrated. The Bible House is at present the headquarters of the movement President Carter, of Williams College, is a very practical prohibitionist. The town authorized the granting cf two liquor licenses, but time passed on and no places for the Bale of liquor were opened. Investigation showed that President Carter had quietly bought the two licenses and thus pre- \ ented the legal sale of liquor in the town.