, 1874-08-30

| T,uthe- as borsetnap. escorted by Helsncthon
! Bpalatin. and 1ancemeu, pounc1ng On tho unsus
picious Tetzel and capturing bis treasure. Ini'
| scene WAS tu1uultuous and exciting IN the hlgn
| est degree. Luther, who was personatea VnioF:
| tunateIv by theatrical manager, then adNesseo
an immense crowd III triumphant manner.
Tho Echoes Of Luce7ne announces that Al,
American chapel is to be established at that
place, open to tho ministrntions Of ETanEe'1cal
| clersymen of ali denominations Place OF wor-
| ship, Grand National Hotel; tho Rev. G. W.
BENJAMIN, of Nan Haven. chaplain.
Tho following statistics Of religion in Scotland
are accepted as substantially correct: Popufa-
the Established Church, 1,o63. 900; other Pres
byteran bodies, 1,2D9, 900 other denominations.
202. .00O; total Evangelical population, 2,564,- :
COO; Roman Catholics, 100000; Socinian and
other aects, 10000; neglectins ordinances,
$50, 600.
Mrs Watsoo. an English lady, now at shem-
Ian, Mount Lebanon, for thirty years has
devoted herself and her fortune to the rork Of
educating her sex in the East. She has conduct
ed schools in Athens, Gambia, Valparaiso, 6myr-
M, Beyrout, sidon, aud Mount Lebanon. At
the latter place sho established number OF
schools for the natives, including Roman aud
Greek Catholics, Druses, etc. She has zleo
built church at Shemlan, and has recently
opened three schools for girls in the villages
adjacent. Iheso schoola ARE taught by native
LaacHeIat ttd1ueu " 1eIEGiI. 6u6 naal8 the
greater portion Of the expenses in ali her enter
prises.
The Rev. Mr. MacDougall. Treasurer Of the
Free Church Of Italy, and Father Garazzi, are
IN Scotland, trying to raiae money for the sup
port OF the EyanGelsss in italy, who have hith-
erto been sustained by the American Board. A
building for the Biblical College in Bone, for
the trimming OF Evnngelists, has been bought.
1t is on the Piazza St. Angelo, facing the bridge
and Castle OF st. Angelo, with St. Peters and
the Vatican beyond, a five-story marble building.
But there are AZ yet no Professors and no money
letter, after speaking Of the difficulties, sayB:
" Yet VIC shall haye college, and at Rome Al
ready We have commenced it, thus very year,
with five classes and nine students. The next
scholastic year shall be even more fruitful and
mere encouraging and hope truly profitable to
our Church During the past year lcctured
there On the scriptural Languages, Hebrew and
Greek. Cannot We interest our friends IN Amer
les to give US, II once, our first Professor in the
college, 7"
A French Countess has purchased tho Mount
Of Olives and presented 1t to her Government,
the Savior is supposed to have prayed. The
PRAYER is inscribed on the stone vail around tho
courtyard in thirtJ-two languages The Count
ess il lady Of immense wealth, aud as queer as
she is wealthy. She lives in All old cottage Of
Oriental STYLE aud has only q tcrtoisc-she1 cat
and brown dog for her companions
f. Schlaeger. in his recent German tract, pub
l1shel ut, Berlin, on the Germans in America,
notes the change in their habits OF thought With
in twenty five years on religious subjects and
says that it was the fashion among them here
Twenty-Five years ago to be irreliglous and If
Buchner, the materialist and atheist, had come
to America then instead Of in 1872. he would have
had quite different reception. Ho would hare
been toasted, and his lectures would have been
crowded instead Of being let severely alone, az
&1,1~rrw L.+e i ~
but q handful of persons 10 listen to his goddess
defamation.