RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Baptists have twenty churches in Liberia. —The Cincinnati authorities are trying to close the theatres of that city on Sunday. —Signor Gavazzi, the Italian evangelist, is preaching and lecturing to large audiences in Dublin. —The three chief Presbyterian denominations of Scotland raised, last year, $6,640,000 by voluntary subscription. —America has sent over four hundred missionaries to Turkey and spent $5,000,000 in efforts to convert the Turks to Christianity. —The Southern Methodist church has in Texas, besides Germans, 408 itinerants, 755 local preachers, 76,509 members and 23,277 Sunday-school scholars. —Chicago claims a population of nearly 540,000, and Bishop Cheney, in discussing church failures to reach the masses, declares that only 50,000 are habitual worshipers in sanctuaries. —A member of the church of Scotland offered $5,000 to begin a mission in Ichang, China. The offer was promptly accepted, and a minister and three colporteurs have already sailed. —It is said that Mrs. A. T. Stewart, in addition to her munificent gifts at Garden City, contemplates establishing and endowing a diocesan divinity school during the coming autumn. —In Berlin, with a population of one million, only 35,000 persons attend public worship, and there are 20,000 burials every year without any religious service. This is relatively worse than Chicago. —Mr. Spurgeon's London congregation proposes to celebrate the quarter centennial of his pastorate by presenting him with a fund of $25,000; but in accordance with his wish, the money will be used for church purposes. —No less than forty bishops preached in the London churches on Sunday, July 7. Of this number thirty-one were foreign and colonial prelates, the entire number of home bishops being nine—four English, two Scotch, two Irish, and one Welsh. —The foundation for a Jesuit college to cost $500,000 has been begun in San Francisco. It will comprise a college, with all the requirements of modern education, such as laboratories, libraries, studies and rooms for the students and professors, a church, and a theatre capable of seating 5,000 persons. —Mr. George Muller and wife landed in excellent health at Liverpool July 7, and were present at the Monday evening service in Bethesda chapel, Bristol. Mr. Muller said he traveled 19,000 miles since he left Bristol, had preached 299 times in 200 churches, and had 108 invitations from places in America which he could not visit. —The California Chinese Mission now sustains ten mission schools. The number of pupils enrolled in May was 467. The total number reported as having attended the schools for a longer or shorter time since September last is 1,178. Of those now in the schools, 64 give evidence of conversion. The number converted in connection with the schools, from their first organization, is about 200. —The Presbyterians of Canada are trying to secure an endowment for Queen's College, the only university they have. They have raised for this purpose $40,000 in Kingston, $15,000 in Toronto and $9,000 in Montreal. —The Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Milburn, well-known as "the Blind Preacher," has recently returned to New York after a sojourn of two years and a half in the United Kingdom. During that time he has traversed almost every portion of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, traveling about 30,000 miles, and preaching and lecturing over 600 times. Mr. Milburn expects to lecture during the coming winter on what a blind man "saw" in the course of this long tour.