RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Cincinnati authorities are trying to close the theatres of that city on Sunday. —A Presbyterian Tabernacle is to be built at Asbury Park, New Jersey, for summer worship. —The Reformed German church of the United States has 1,368 churches, and 146,901 members. —The beer gardens outside the Paris Exhibition grounds cover as much space as the Exposition buildings. —America has sent over 400 missionaries to Turkey and spent $5,000,000 in efforts to convert the Turks to Christianity. —It is said that the Missionary Society of Basle is taking care of 5000 children which the recent famine in India has made orphans. —The London City Mission had a total income the past year of $259,790; an increase of $32,000 over the preceding year. It employs 452 missionaries. —The Quakers in England and Wales now number 17,000. A few years ago they were estimated at 100,000. In 1700 there were 60,000 in Great Britain. —The Bible Society of Scotland has printed 50,000 New Testaments, in French, small size, but clear type, which it proposes to sell at about five cents a copy. —The British and Foreign Bible Society printed last year 2,670,742 copies of the Bible. The American Bible Society printed 881,056 copies. During the past year these societies have circulated among the Turks 17,773 Bibles. —The pastors of the State Church of Prussia are very poor, and a collection is annually taken up for them throughout the kingdom, the last one of which amounted to about $80,000, or less than half a cent apiece from the 17,000,000 nominally Protestant population. —The Roman Catholics have sent the Abbe Debaize from France to Zanzibar, accompanied by nine priests from Algiers, with whose aid he will establish missions at Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, Central Africa. He expects to be absent three years. The French Chambers voted $20,000 for this mission. —At the anniversary of the Spurgeon's Pastor's College, in London, last month, it was stated that fifty-three chapels had been erected in the London district alone through the agency of that institution. Since 1865, 32,477 persons have been baptized by pastors educated in the college, and the number in fellowship of the churches in their charge is 37,597. —Kings county, N. Y., has 261 Sunday-schools. Of these the Methodists have 56; the Episcopalians, 35; The Baptist, 27; the Reformed, 23; the Congregational, 19; the Lutheran, 14, etc. There are 48 mission and Union schools. The total number gathered in these schools is 88,470. The number of conversions or confirmations the past year was 2,153. The amount expended during the year for benevolent and other purposes was $74,925. —The British Company of New Testament revisers have completed the first revision and sent it to the American committee. The latter have revised all except Revelations and four of the smaller Epistles, and sent over the larger parts of their work. The grand rhythm of the rich old English is everywhere preserved and only words changed that have lost their original meaning or which do not conform to the most authentic text of ancient manuscripts.