Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-08-24
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The number of Presbyterians among
English speaking communities through
out the world is about IL ,000,0 900.
Seventy-five million dollars is con-
tributed annually in the United States TO
the sustenance of the church, $31 900, 900
more being given for purposes purely de-
votional.
In an address at the laying of the COR
ner stone of Jewish synagogue in New
York short time ago Erastus Wiman
stated that the Hebrews in America
number less than ,000, 900 in population
Of 81, 100000.
The movements among young people
during the past 80 years promise a pro-
digious advance in the efficiency and
scope of Christian work. The work needs
judicious guidance and development; but
the trend is in the right direction and the
outlook is bright.-Occident Presby-
terian).
Mr.. Surgeons works have been trans
lated into the Morse language. At Christ
iania colporteurs have circulated upward
of $1,000 copies of his sermons alone. His
British Colportage Association reports
that there are 80 colporteurs now en-
gagged. Last year they sold $50, 900 worth
of literature and took part in 10, ,240
services or meetings.
No less than 10 Protestant societies are
at work in Spain, occupying 115 houses
or rooms as chapels and school buildings.
The American board has missionaries
and 33 native helpers, 1s churches with
$40 members, and 904 pupils in schools.
The American Baptists in Spain and
France together have 18 missionaries and
10 churches, with membership of 900.
The Sunday School Chronicle, animad-
verting on the very serious decline in
Sunday school attendane in Scotland,
says the Scotch have been justly proud
of their elementary school system, so
long in advance of England, but it is
some reflection on their churches that
they have not recognized the Importance
of making strenuous efforts to improve
their Sunday schools.
EAccording to recent summaries the
total estimated circulation of religious
papers published in this country is very
near 100000, which would intimate
that the papers are seen by at least two
or three times that number of readers.
The Roman Catholics head the list with
127 papers, having about 10000 circula-
ton, but the Methodists are close behind
them with lat papers, having about $780,
coo circulation. OF undenominationai
religious papapers, it is reported thai
there are now 80 with 265, 900 subscribers.
Northwestern Christian Advoca
Bishop Fitzgerald, at the meeting of
ministers at Nashville, to bid him good
bye on the eve of his departure for Cali
fornia, said: Il go to my old field of
labor. 90 to a beautiful land, land
of sunshine, land on whose lofty mount
ain peaks the SHOWS never melt and in
whose smiling valleys the flowers never
fade. / go to a land of fertility and gold,
where mighty empire is arising under
our American civilization, and cosmo-
politan people have not yet crystalized
their permanent social and ecclesiastical
forms. go to do what can to help
mold these people into the image of
Christ and bring them into the dominion
of his law and love, and to put the evan
gelizing spirit of our church into the forces
controlling them. In my declining years,
when my locks are gray, go with the
same love that had As years ago, as
young now in my heart as then. and.
blessed God, sweeter in hope than in
those early days.