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RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
MI. Moody, the r~evivalist, has been
preaching in Chicago.
There is a rumor that the papacy is
looking toward Jerusalem as the place
to which to transfer the throne of the
pope.
The duke of Argyle, speaking at a re-
! cent church fair, said that he did not
regard q baZar as q heroic method OF
raising money for church purposes.
The secretary of the Central Evange-
lical society of Paris, states that If they
had the means they could found q new
Protestant church in France every
! week.
Rev. w. Milne, q first-rate authority,
saws that "there are more than l2,OOO
educated natives in Calcutta who un-
derstand English perfectly" It is pro-
posed to supply them with Christian
preachers.
The Presbyterian Synod of Minnesota
met at Albert Lea, Oct. 9th-l4th. The
question of founding q Presbyterian COL
lege for Minnesota was discussed and
referred to O committee for future re-
port.
The tLondon Sunday-school union
has, in connection with its continental
mission, l, Neutrality-suspicious. in France.
of which lightweight are in Paris. In
Sweden. where three years ago there
were not twenty of the society's Sunday
schools, there are now over $4,000 chill
dren receiving religious instruction on
the Sabbath.
The Protestant Synod of Prussia has
passed a resolution condemning the
practice of holding military reviews on
Sunday. Emperor William, il is said,
has been highly indignant at the action
of the synod. .
A sperm whale was lately h%arpooned
of the island of Eleuthera by a party OF
sixteen Methodist fishermen, who sold
the oil and ambergris in London, and
with tie proceeds paid off a debt on one
of their mission chapels.
Dean Stanley, in the October number
of the Nineteenth Century. has an arti-
Gle on baptism, in which he says that
immersion was undoubtedly the practice
in the apostolic age, and that infant
baptism arose in later times.
The Christian at Work says: The
whole custom OF pronouncing a funeral
Grafton comes to US from the French,
and has in it not q little of the artificial
and rhetorical for which as a nation
they are remarkable. Would it not be
better to return to the simplicity of our
fathers and substitute devotional exer-
| cises for q funeral address!
Mr.. Moody in a late sermon at Celve-
land said: / have a great admiration for
the co.ored woman who said that ifthe
Lord told her to jump through a stone
wall. it was her business to lump, and
the getting through was G DDS bust
ness.
AS many as 1000 Testaments have
been sold in London on q single Satur.
day night from the Bible carriage OF
Henry Moorhouse, the evangelist: For
two pence he sells a package which con.
tairs a copy'of he New Testament and
| also some illustrated papers.
John B. Cough says that Charles II.
Spurgeon is a thorough abstainer from
all kinds Of alcoholic stimulants. Spur
! geon formerly drank beer to some ex-
tent, but of late years has relinquished
it. Spurgeon used to decline to work
with the temperance men, because he
thought there were SO many intidels
among them. He has now overcome his
scruples in this respect and throws his
influence heartily into the temperance
reform.
DR.. Tudor, of St. Louis, said at the
recent Evangelical Alliance Conference
that the chief reason the masses do not
20 to church in cities is because the
churches are too fine. "Our fine, fash
ionable churches deter the poor, argue
the question as we may. Go to your
| church with this bonnetp And it is all
| the bonnet I have?' is the irresistible
argument on the other side"
The Rev. DR.. Samuel Haskins, of St.
Marks Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, re.
Gently completed forty years rectorship
of that parish. During this long pastor
ate he has baptized 1905 persons, old
and young; presented 993 persons for
confirmation, married 702 couples,
buried l,O7l and added l,l6l commune
cants to the church, whose present mem
bership is about four hundred
There are only two Baptist chnrche:
in South America. One is located in
Santa Barbara, Brazil, and is chiefly
composed of after-the-w war emigrants
from the Southern States; the Other
is in Demarara, Guiana. and is con-
posed Of Chinese immigrants, gath
cred and presided over by a jealous and
efficient brother from the Canton Baptist
church in China. In 1878 this church
numbered l56. and sixteen or more have
since been added by baptism.
The report of the board of trustees OIL
the Universalist General Convention
states that the denomination has econ
tinued slowly to advance in Temporal
things. Not only is our financial statu:
improved by the payment of debts, hotl
local and general, but the sense Of unity
among Universalists grows perceptibly
each year. It is only for nine years tina
we have lived under an ecclesiastica
polity whichlis capable OF organizing anc
concentrating our strength; but already
this system which was at first received
with distrust, and some dislike. finds cor
dial assent far and near, and the happy
spectacle is growing palmer with eacl
year ola widely dispersed people, reach
ing from Cape Cod to the Pacific, who
not only hold the same doctrines, but
are content to use the same NEAR fol
the maintenance and propagation o.