RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Y. M. C. A. at Auburn, N. Y., has recently received a legacy of $14,000. —It is stated that for the 915 Baptist churches of Illinois there are only 447 pastors. —Nine Chinamen were recently baptized and received into the Methodist church in San Jose. —Twenty-five counties of Virginia have refused to grant license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. —Mrs. Rebecca Anderson, who is 112 years of age, was recently baptized by immersion in a Brooklyn church. —Mr. Moody has incurred the displeasure of the New York Ledger, by cautioning the public against reading that journal. —Of the thirty-six crowned heads in Europe, ten are Roman Catholic, two are of the Greek separation, and twenty-four are nominally Protestant. —The National Temperance Society has addressed a memorial to the legislature of New York, asking that no additional facilities be given to the liquor traffic. —The charitable legacies from the estate of the late Roxana Childs, Utica, N. Y., have been paid, amounting, with previous legacies, to the princely sum of nearly $300,000. —Two Congregational churches in New England have refused to call two students of the Senior Class of Andover Seminary, on account of their being addicted to the use of tobacco. —Forty years ago the whole population of the Fiji Islands were cannibals. Now forty thousand of the children attend the Sunday-schools, and thousands of the people attend Christian churches. —The English revisers of the Old Testament have held forty-three sessions, and carried their work as far as 2 Kings 14 : 16. The New Testament revisers have reached the eighth chapter of Revelation. —It is affirmed that between three and four thousand members of the established church have joined the free church movement during the past year in different parts of England. This church is in communion with the Reformed Episcopal church of the United States. —There are now some 3,000 orthodox Christians in Japan. The schools in that country are also increasing both in number and size. At Yeddo, a lithographic establishment, under the charge of Father Nicholas, is in operation, and books have already begun to appear. —The British and Foreign Bible Society has made arrangements with Rev. R. Van Eck, who for eleven years has been a missionary of the Utrecht Missionary Society, to translate the gospel of St. Mark into the language spoken by the natives of Bali, an island of 800,000 inhabitants in the Indian Archipelago. If he succeeds, it will lead to the translation of the whole New Testament. —The Christian Union says: “The adoration of the Virgin appears to be no longer confined to the Roman Catholic church. At St. Agnes’ church, London, there are back of the chancel two full-length representations, one of the Virgin and child, the other of the Saviour, placed side by side, and both surrounded by a halo. The Bishop of London at first refused to consecrate the church; the Virgin was then removed and plain glass left in its place. The figure has been since restored, and the church authorities insist that the crown of glory on the head has been removed, but the reporters say that they are not able to distinguish any difference between the treatment of Mary and of Christ.”