RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—Forty London lawyers assemble at eight o'clock A. M., on Sundays, to study the Greek Testament. —A Palestine Exploration Society, after the model of the English Society, is to be formed in Germany. —The “Sunday Rest” question has been taken up officially by the authorities of the Protestant church in Germany. —An exchange says that a Belgian Court has set aside a lady’s will because she was under the influence of a belief in Spiritualism. —Mr. Edward Kimball, who is leading the crusade in the Pacific States against church debts, in six Sundays secured money and pledges for the relief of eight churches, amounting to $156,000. —President Hayes has notified the Trustees of the Methodist Foundry church, Washington, of his desire to contribute for the support of the gospel as much as any single subscriber to its funds—which proves to be $500 per annum. —An Eastern paper says: “The Banner of Light, a Spiritualist newspaper, goes to the expense of cable-dispatches in the Slade case. And that with all the spirit-intelligences of the under world at its command! Who will believe in spiritism after this?” —Dr. Cuyler, during a pastoral life of thirty-one years, seventeen of which have been spent in his Brooklyn parish, has preached 4,800 sermons, besides writing articles for the religious press that it is estimated have had a circulation of some seventy million copies. —Mr. Moody has been urged by evangelical clergymen and others to remain a year, at least, in Boston, and finish the work which the revival has begun. He was a good deal moved by the urgent appeal, but with characteristic directness, said he should not be governed by the votes, but should do as God told him. —On April 27, the English revisers of the authorised version of the New Testament concluded their first revision and their sixty-ninth session. They have also finished the second revision of the Gospels. This second revision occupied eight sessions, or thirty-two days. The first revision has thus occupied sixty-one sessions, or two hundred and forty-one days, and has extended over six years and one month. —A vigorous movement is to be made by the High Church Episcopalians to have the words “Protestant Episcopal” dropped from the title of the church. It would then be designated simply as “The Church,” and the success of the measure would pointedly deny the Christian standing of all other religious bodies and commit Episcopalians to the most exclusive sectarianism. The recent Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania declared against the change. On the other hand, some influential church journals are openly committed to the step, and by the time the General Convention meets it is expected the lines will be closely drawn on this issue.