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Religious Notes.

Dr. Summers, one of Bishop Taylors mission
aries has had attack of fever, but was, at last
accounts convaleseing
In the Prussian universities 1868 students are
studying theology, and the evangelical profess
ors are the most popular.
The American Tract Society issued SO. $50, 628
pages last year. 1t is fortunate that there are so
many millions of people to read them
The Rev. Miss Callock is the name of lady
Universalist preacher who is attracting consid-
cradle attention in southern California.
The Baptist Churches In Stockholm are fast
multiplying. There are now five six, and
still the first one numbers 1000 members.
The disestablishment of the Church of Eng
land in Wales will affect but a small part of its
population, as only an eighth are members of
that church.
The whole congregation of free church in
Scotland, who were thinking of calling certain
minister to their pulpit, hired special train and
went down en- masse to Dundee to hear him
preach.
Labor with what zeal will,
Something still remains undone-
Something uncorapeted still
Waits the risicg Of the
-Lonqfellow.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in Canada is
now nearing its centenary in the approaching
one hundredth anniversary Of the creation of
the bishopric of Nova Scotia. 1t is proposed to
mark the event by the erection of a cathedral at
Halifax.
DR.. Charles F. Deems, of New York, in re-
cent address stated that he was a secessionist
during the war, that he went out of the Union
With his State, but that he was soundly con-
verified at a great campmeeting, heldin Virginia,
1T which Generals Grant and Lee did most Of the
preaching.
1t is suggestive fact that at Lucknow, India
there is native press employing nine hundred
workmen which issues largely the sacred writ
ings of the Hindoos and Mohammedans A ma
tive publishing firm at Lahore translates Eu-
ropean infdel publications as fast as they appear
and disseminates them in the various languages
Of India
On the ladder of God, which upward leads,
The steps of progress are human needs.
For his judgments stA a ~ H.:
And the eyes of his r-,danc 90 yater ss siasn
Whittier.
The question of the rights Of women in eccie-
siastical bodies is making some stir in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church. 1t was raised at Christ
Church. New Haven, Conn.,, and decided against
the women. But the Church of the Ascension in
Fall River. Mass. has decided to change the con-
stitution so that the women may vote In the
church on the same terms as the men,
The Church Helper is authority for the anec-
dote: A boy, hearing his father pray Tor the
missionary cause, especially for the wants of the
missionaries, and that their institutions might
be supplied with abundant means, said to him
Father / wish / had your money" why,
my son, what would you do with itP asked the
prayers"
An English clergyman the Rev. j. j. Hal
combe has published a book maintaining that a
section of the Gospel of Luke, extending from
chapter x. IA to chapter xiii. 81, has been dis
placed from its proper position, and should be
besides other strong arguments. that this rear
rangement would bring the four gospels into
perfect harmony with each other.
There are forty-two protestant church edifces
in New Mexico, belonging to the different de-
nominations as follows Methodist Episcopal
16; Methodist Episcopal South Z; Presbyterian,
II; Protestant Episcopal, 3; Baptists, 2. Thus,
In Territory covering an area of l22 $50 square
miles--larger than all the New England States
with New York added, with population of 100.
600. there but forty-two Protestant church
edifces.
A religious movement is creating much excite
ment in southern Russia The "Stundists,
who are members of Lutheran body, now cal
themselves Evangelical Christians, and are max
Ing surprising progress among the peasant class
In many villages the orthodox churches remain
empty, while the meeting houses of the Evan
gelical Christians are crowded. Dissent contin
ues to multiply in Russia in spite of every kind
Of persecution.
According to table of denominational church
statistics published by the New York Observer
the Baptists have in the United States 2572 23s
eommunicants, Northern Presbyterlans, 644, OPS
Southern Presbyterians, 13l, 258; Cumberland
Presbyterians, 126, 91l; Lutherans, 81 l. 267 Dis
ciples, GIT 500 Congregationaists. AIS, 564; Epis
copalians, 398, 900; while the Unitarians are re
reported at 20 600; the Moravians. at TO- 1s1; the
Universalists, at sc, 23S; and the Swedenborgians
at 5, 450.
while practcing law number Of years ago,
said Judge Tourgee, II had peculiar will case
An old lady who was a stakeholder, dying, be
quethed her colored man, john and her dusky
maid, Jane, who sustained TO each other the re
lation of husband and wife, to the trustrees o!
the church, to be used as far as possible for the
glory of God.'e was curious TO know what
course was taken, and upon investigation found
that. after meditation and prayer, the piouf
trustees sold their living legacy at auction, and
with the proceeds sert missionary to China.
The Cumberland Presbyterian has this to say
Of the proposed union of the Cumberland Pres
byterian with the Methodist Protestant Church,
I'VE do not hesitate to say that we regard the