RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
Philadelphia has more Baptist churches than any other city in the world except London. —It is reported that Mr. Sankey will spend the summer at Cohasset village, near Boston. —It is said that three and one-half million copies of the Moody and Sankey song books have been sold. —It is estimated that more than 2500 persons were received into New England churches the first Sunday in May. —The English revisers of the New Testament have reached the eighteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. —The Congregationalists claim to have 3,500 churches in the United States, with a membership of 350,658, and 3,330 ministers. —The Colored Methodist Episcopal church, which was organized in 1870, has at the present time four bishops and about 80,000 members. —The congregation of St. Andrew's church of Montreal have decided, by a majority of 213, against union with the Presbyterian church. —There are 960 missionaries and ordained native pastors in India proper, excluding Burmah and Ceylon; and 116 lady missionaries connected with the various societies. —About 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in procession through the streets of Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday, May 20, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the pope's episcopacy. —The number of Roman Catholics in the United States is computed at 6,300,000, and the church provides pastoral oversight to this entire population by one cardinal, ten archbishops, and 5,297 priests. They have 5,292 churches and 1,587 schools, and 1,200 students preparing for the ministry. —An Eastern paper says: “Fears are expressed that our missionaries may be greatly disturbed by the military movements in Eastern Turkey, and should the war be protracted it may become necessary for them to retire, at some points, to safer places. Erzeroum is one of the stations of the American Board.” —There are eighty local temperance unions in Massachusetts, all of which have been organized within the past year. Their aggregate membership is about 10,000. The money raised by them this year is nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Massachusetts reports twenty-six reading-rooms and two temperance restaurants, all in successful operation, so far as heard from. It has also thirty-one juvenile unions, with eight thousand four hundred members. Over seventy reform clubs have been organized since last November. —A Hungarian nobleman recently gave a million of dollars to the Protestant church in that country, and soon afterward renounced the Roman Catholic church and became a Protestant. —Recently the amendment to the Burials Bill, proposed by the archbishop of Canterbury, permitting the reading of other services than that of the Church of England in church-yards, was passed by a vote of 65 against 60, despite the opposition of the Government. —Persecution of the Jews in the Danubian Principalities has broken out again. The prefect of one of the Moldavian villages, Vaslin, put himself at the head of a mob to drive the Jews out of the houses which they had hired. Three hundred of these poor victims, without regard to age or sex, were sent out into the street, where some of them died of exposure. No reason was given except that the sufferers were Jews, and so outlaws.