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RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
New York city has 1886 Protestant
Sunday-schools.
Women are filling the pulpits of
Presbyterian churches in Texas.
Canada has Roman Catholic popula-
sion of .s46. 800, with 1899 priests.
New York State contains one-fourth
Of the Presbyterians of the country.
Martin Luther's last will, written by
his own hand, is in the library at Held
elberg.
The Catholics are to petition for the
appointment of chaplains of their faith
for the army and the navy.
DR.. Schaf' says that as rule the
salaries of ministers in Europe are
barely sufficient for their living.
The Mcthodists and Baptists of Mar
shall, Mich. have combined, the one
furnishing q church and the other a
[ minister.
J. W. Waterman has presented Grace
Episcopal church, Detroit, Mich, the
sum of $4,000 cash, paying in full the
| debt upon the church.
Entire religious liberty has lately been
secured in Greece, through the efforts
of the English government at the Eng
lish Presbyterian church.
The building erected by the Anglican
society for the promotion of Chris ian
knowledge in London, and which cost
S4OO, 900, has been opened.
The Bishop of Peterborough, who is
to be the president of the English
church congress next year, has fixed it
to begin at Leicester on September %.
Four of the seven bishops of the
Methodist church South have been in
the ministry from fifty to sixty years,
and possibly this is true of five Of the
seven.
The Russian missionaries in Japan,
having succeeded in bringing over to
their faith some 4, 1000 Japanese, a bishop
|sis to be sent to Jeddo by the St. Peters
burg synod.
The executive committee of the Bap-
tist Missionary Union has voted to hold
the next annual meeting at Saratoga
Springs, and all the anniversaries will
be held at the same place next May.
Tie Old Believers, a sect of Russia,
having been found guilty of putting up
new church in Butkoff. have been
sentenced to two months imprison-
ment, and the church has been confis-
Gated.
The largest synodal body that Chris
tianity can show, is said to be the gen.
eral synod of the State Church of Prus-
sia. which represents 100000 Evan
gelicals. 1t meets once in six years. the
Ia i meeting having recently been held
in Berlin.
The Methodist Episcopal church had,
according to the statistics reported up
to July last, 96 annual conferences,
II, 1853 itinerant preachers, and 1865
members and probationers. Since the
organization 0. the church 444 presiding
elders and 634.967 members have died.
Mr.. Moody believes in personal
devil. Being asked by St. Louis re-
porter if this was true, he replied that
ne "most certainly" did believe so.
"The Bible,n he added, "is Just tenn
ing with facts in confederation of it.
He is the Prince Of Darkness and has
LIllS WOIlu lOI HIS hluSilOlu.
Christianity has made progress in the
Fiji Islands to IN extent which is sur
prising. There are at present S4l chap
els and 29l other places where preaching
is held, with So missionaries busily
engaged in preparing the way for others.
The membership numbers 1924 per-
sons, and there are besides 5,43l persons
whose admission TO membership will
probably follow soon.
Henry Keet. who died short time
ago in England, was the w Wesleyan min
istcr whom the Anglican Bishop of Lin
coin years ago refused to deal with-.the
dispute ut last leading to suit at law
against the bishop to establish Mr..
Kcet's right to place the title Rev"
before his name on the tombstone of his
daughter. Mr.. Keet gained q decision
in his favor, and the Rev" was Or
dercd to placed on the stone. At his
| funeral the other day, when an attend
ant was about TO let fall the usual hand
full of earth on the coffin, the vicar OF the
parish who was present stopped down
and himself performed that little SER
| vice.
Mr.. Charles Scott, of Belfast, Ireland,
ivIdes the Protestant churches of Great
britain into four families or groups, and
gives the following statistics of them {:
First.-Episcopal-Church of England,
thirty dioccsans, $4,000 ministers: !:
Church of Ireland, twelve diocesans.
1900 ministers; Episcopal Church OF
Scotland, seven diocesans, 293 ministers; !;
Moravian Church, forty ministers,
Second. - Congregational - Indepen-
dents, England, 2.205 ministers; Scot
laud and Ireland. 1913 ministers-total,
1888 ministers; Baptis1s, 1876 minis
ters; Countess of Huntingdon Connec-
ton, thirty-seven ministers. Third
Presbyterian-Church of Scotland. 1853
ministers; Free Church, l,o26 ministers;
United Presbyterian, 56S ministers
total, 1888 ministers. Presbyterian
Church III England, 268 ministers; CAL
whistle Methodists, 8l4 ministers;
/ Presbyterian Church in ireland. '636
ministers. Fourth. -Methodist-Wes-
leyans, 2,l32 minister's; Primitive
Methodists, I,l37 ministers; Methodist
Free Churches, 356 ministers; New Con-
nection and Bible Christians, 344 minis