Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
—Bishop Ames of the M. E. church died in Baltimore April 25. —Mr. Moody is still holding his meetings in Baltimore with marked success. —Cardinal Manning has forbid women singing in the choirs of Westminster diocese. —Dr. Hugh Miller has bequeathed $100,000 to the Scottish Free Church Missionary Society. —The late Governor General of India says that missionaries have done more to benefit India than all other agencies combined. —The Methodist Conference in Liberia has organized a missionary society for the conversion of the heathen in that country. —It is Colton who says that "men will wrangle for religion—write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but—live for it." —R. Arthington, of Leeds, Eng., has given the Baptist Missionary Society $10,000 to provide a steamer to navigate the Congo river. —A minister of the English church has come to grief. He permitted Mr. Sankey to sing in his church, and the Bishop has been called upon to interfere. —An aged minister was asked by a young lady if Christians might dance. He answered, "Wait till you are converted and you will not ask such a question." —The Louisiana Constitutional Convention has passed a resolution declaring its intention to preserve the religious and political right of all classes of people without regard to color. —A Baptist Council in Minnesota refused to ordain a candidate because he denied the right of women to speak in church. It was held that it would seriously impair his usefulness. —Hon. Gardner Colby, of Boston, recently died. He was a prominent man in the Baptist church, whose life was full of generous deeds. Colby College, of Waterville, Maine, was named for him. —The Roman Catholic College at Kensington, England, has proved a complete failure. It was started a few years ago, has never had a dozen students at one time, and has lately been formally closed. —It is reported as being "the talk" in London that Dean Stanley is about to go over to the church of Rome. It seems strange, yet he is certainly not strongly wedded to the English church establishment. —Dr. Deems is in favor of often repeating sermons. It is said that Whitefield never reached the largest measure of success on a sermon until he had preached it over thirty times. Not a safe rule for all. —In Paisley, Scotland, the English language was introduced into the Gaelic church, recently, when the congregation not only left the church, but made so much noise outside that no service could be held. —Dr. Hull, editor of the Sabbath Recorder, says, "We are satisfied, after two or three attempts, we can never write poetry. We are not even good at rhyming." But the Dr. knows something which many rhymers do not know—that there is a difference between rhyming and writing poetry. —At the New England Methodist Conference the editor of the Methodist Advocate, Atlanta, Ga., said that half the wrongs and injuries to the freedmen had not been told. It is useless for politicians to deny it, and the present "exodus" is a necessary result. —The London Christian of March 27, says: "A Presbyterian minister expresses his thanks for the delightful conference at Mildmay, on the second advent. He returned to his work much refreshed. One result is a few Christians are arranging for a meeting in his home, at least once a month, for the study of prophecy." —The Christian at Work says: "Dr. I. S. Kalloch writes a public letter justifying the San Francisco Baptist Ministers' Association for striking off the name of a member because of his position on the Chinese question. We should have thought better of that action but for Dr. Kalloch's letter. That makes it indefensible." —Mr. Hathaway, formerly connected with Talmage's Tabernacle work, now preaching in Jersey City, said in his testimony in the trial: "I believe that Dr. Talmage got so used to dealing in hyperbole that he did not know he lied. I can't say whether Dr. Talmage knew whether he was telling falsehoods or not; he's put together so different from any other man I ever knew." —The Christian at Work says: "The life of Christ after his crucifixion would scarcely have commanded a denarius from any purchaser immediately after his ascension. But now a publisher sues the writer of the Life of Christ for $40,000 damages for not producing a second volume." And yet "the life of Christ" (not the history), was more highly esteemed by some then than it is now. —A sensible writer in the Sunday School Times tells of a Sunday-school superintendent who said, "We had a real good time at our Sunday-school yesterday; teachers and scholars were in tears during the closing address;" and remarks, "That is not an uncommon way of estimating the influence of a Sunday-school session, but it is a very poor way. Tear-shedding is by no means a test of religious conviction, however much it may show of momentary feeling."