RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—Philadelphia has 100 more churches than free schools. —In China they spend $250,000,000 a year in worshiping their ancestors. —Of the 137,099 children in the State of Connecticut, 54,377 do not attend Sunday-schools. —There has been an increase of 470 Roman Catholic priests in England and Scotland since 1867, and convents, monasteries and religious orders have multiplied rapidly. —The Protestant Episcopal church of the Incarnation has cleared off entirely its debt of $48,000. The Belleville Avenue Congregational church, Newark, N. J., has also provided for its debt of $20,000. —No new missionaries have been sent out for three years in the Southern Presbyterian church, and during that time the missionary force has been diminished one-third, and the Board closes this year with a debt of $9,000. —The demand for the five cent Testament issued by the American Bible Society is so great that it led to the issue of 1,000 copies a day throughout the month of May. A new price list has been adopted in which the various publications of the society are greatly reduced. The receipts for May were $24,322.94; copies of Scriptures issued, 104,087. —The indebtedness of the four principal missionary organizations of this country is as follows: American Baptist Missionary Union, $26,000; Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, $60,000; Reformed Foreign Missions, $28,000; Methodist Missionary Society, $170,000. The other denominations are probably not far behind proportionately, especially in the item of foreign work.