RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The oldest Methodist minister in Ireland, Rev. John Nelson recently died, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. He was baptized by John Wesley, and was a friend of Dr. Adam Clarke, the renowned commentator. —The monument erected to the memory of P. P. Bliss, at Rome, Pa., was dedicated in the presence of over ten thousand people. Mr. Moody presided, Mr. Sankey led the singing, and the address on the occasion was delivered by the Rev. A. T. Pierson, of Detroit. —Mrs. Caroline Phelps Stoke, of New York, has founded a scholarship at Oberlin College for the benefit of young colored men who are educating themselves for missionary work in Western Africa. Its annual income will be sufficient, with the low cost of tuition and living at Oberlin, to pay over one-half the entire expenses of a student there. —Father Chiniquy's success in Montreal still continues. At a moderate estimate, at least 250 families have been brought under the influence of the gospel. Of the converts from Romanism, a large number applied for membership in the new church, and after a careful and minute examination of each applicant individually, 115 were received into fellowship. —Partial statistics of the number of additions to the churches in and around Boston begin to show us the results of the revival of last winter. In 112 Congregational churches have been received 2,554 new members by profession; sixty Baptist churches report 1,546 new members, and thirty-one Methodist churches report 769. —An exchange says that Chicago has a schooner named the “Glad Tidings,” which will do a work of evangelization on the lakes. The vessel cost $1,700. During her voyage various ports will be visited and meetings held. Bibles and other religious literature will be distributed. The voyage will probably extend as far as Lake Erie.