RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—Russia was the only government whose department at the Paris Exposition was opened with religious ceremonies. —At a recent meeting of the Evangelical Alliance it was stated that four of the languages of Africa had been reduced to writing—the Bechuana, Zulu, Caffre, and Basuto—and the Scriptures translated into them; and there were now 50,000 church members. —Gospel temperance meetings are now held on Sunday evenings in the Park theatre in New York city, by Mr. C. W. Sawyer. Similar services are held during the other evenings of the week at the chapel of the City Mission. The meetings are under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association and of the City Mission. —Four more old London churches are to be torn down during the year. Last year witnessed the destruction of the fine church of St. Michael and of All Hallows, where Milton was baptized, and the four which are to be torn down this year are all the work of Christopher Wren, two of which possess spires of singular beauty and originality of design. —The first Moravian missionaries embarked from Copenhagen in 1733, for the West Indies and Greenland. In fifteen years they had commenced sixteen missions, bringing the gospel to the Negroes, Hottentots, Esquimaux, Greenlanders, and American Indians. The missions at present consist of 95 stations, 303 European missionaries, 1,547 native assistants, 300 school teachers, 68,476 members of the church, 22,647 communicants, 16,484 children in day schools, and 12,983 in Sunday-schools.