RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The revival in Boston is progressing to the full satisfaction of the evangelists and pastors of that city. The Tabernacle is crowded two or three times each day, and the inquiry-rooms are filled. —There are 1,062 Jesuits in the United States and Canada. Besides the University of St. Louis, which is in their hands, they have seventeen establishments for education, mostly for superior instruction. —While there are in New York city, 489 churches, chapels, and missions, 418 Sunday schools, and five hundred day schools in the interest of intelligence, morality and religion, there is an opposing force of 8,403 liquor saloons, with numerous evil accessories, corrupting the innocent, destroying the ignorant, and ruining the bodies and souls of men. —Cardinal Antonelli’s will contained in its preamble the following sentence: “Before everything else, I recommend my poor soul to the infinite mercy of God, trusting that through the intercession of the most holy immaculate Mary, and of my patron saints, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. James, and St. Louis, He may grant me remission of my sins, and make me worthy of the eternal glory of Paradise.” The cardinal, who, next to the Pope, was the highest Catholic ecclesiastic, makes no mention at all of Jesus Christ, of whom the apostle Peter once said, “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”—Chris. Herald. —Efforts have been made to ascertain the proportion of children in Sunday-schools to the whole number of children in the country of school age. The census of 1870 puts the number of children in the States and Territories, between five and eighteen years at 12,055,443, while the Sunday-school scholars in forty-seven States and Territories number 5,790,700. Some of these are no doubt under five years and others over eighteen years. There are in the whole country 69,871 Sunday-schools and 753,060 officers and teachers. These statistics do not, however, include Catholic schools. Estimating liberally for these, it appears that not more than fifty per cent of the children of school age in the United States receive Sunday-school instruction.