The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-16
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Work Being Done by Representa-.
tiyes of Various CreedS.

A new Baptist church was dedicated last
Sunday at Dayton, Wash. 1t cost, without
the furniture. $1,000.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
maintains tive theological seminares for
the led ucation Of c0lOred preachers aud
teacher" Paine and Lane Institutes, in
Georgia and Tennessee respectively. A
fund is regularly returned from every
charge in the church for the maintenance of
these schools, anti it is safe 10 say that no
collection" of the church is more saeredly
regarded by preachers and people
They are introducing a novel method in
Belgium, writes the foreign correspondent
of the HOmletic Review, for determining
whether Sunday shall be a day of rest for
letter-carriers. Sunday postage stamps are
10 be provided. All letters with such stamps
mailed on Saturday are to be delivered on
Monday. After trying the experiment for
awhile it is TO be decided, according to the
relative number of letters with these
stamps, whether the majority of the letter
W riting public want the pOstman to enjoy
Sunday rest. If they do. then the carriers
re 10 be freed from Sunday work.
Bishop Tucker OF Uganda is returning to
Africa with seventy miss iOnaries-students.
scholars, athletes many of them from the
universities. He is raising money to build
a mission steamer for Lake Nyanza.
There has been held recently in Exeter
Hall, London, meeting TO welcome the
superintendent OF church missions to the
Chinese at Melbourne aud HindOO woman
from Bombay, bOth Of whom have gone to
England to plead for the adjustment of the
opium traffic in their respective lands. The
latter, Miss SOOnderbai POwar, an Indian
Christian of high caste. mas been engaged
Tor fifteen years In missionary work IN Bonn
bay, has had a welcome entrance into a
large number OF Zenanas, and thus has
gained thorough Insight into the SAD lot of
her non Christian country women. The
women of India have long suffered in silence
in consequence of the opium evil, put they
have at last dared TO express their hatred of
it. In Lucknow, In October, there was
a Semi-publc meeting OF MOhammedan
women, eager 10 send Miss P0war with mes
sageS TO England, c0ndemning strongly the
sale of this drug. What viii be the answer
of the English nation 10 the pleading cry?
Dr. WOTden of the American Methodist
Mission at NagOya, Japan, is living in a
board shanty while his house is being re-
paired, it having been shattered by the
earthquake. a correspondent writes: 81
wonder our missionaries did not lose their
reason during those days Of horror and
nights Of agony-no shelter, no TODD, earth
quaking, rending houses, trees, rocks
tumbliug together in au awful destruction,
fires raging everywhere, and yet their nerves
held out, and the Rev. Charles Bishop writes
that the restitution is so great that they
have no complaints 10 make for the suffer
ing ana priyatiOns they are undergoing"
The Rev. John McLauTin. well known in
connection with Baptist missionary work in
India, left Toronto a few days ago en- route
for India. lie goes to an entirely new work
in that field. and among people for whom,
rs a class, no special effort has hitherto
been put forth. His business will be to
supervise the organization of The Eurasians
or AnElo-HindOo people and marshal them
for aggressive work on Hinduism. He
considers that this people will be a most
potent factor in solving the problem of
evaugelization in India. Mr. g. Ii. Brock,
q recent graduate of McMastcr Hall, accom-
panies Dir. McIaurn to engage in mission
work among the Teugus.
Evangelist L. p Hammond is holding
meetInys in Jersey Oily