RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
By Editor
—The Methodist meeting house in Vallejo was burned the evening of Dec. 8. —The Alliance, from estimates, says 12,000 church members in Chicago do not go to church. —The Roman Catholics are putting up very large buildings on Hayes street, not far from the new city hall, in San Francisco. —The English Bishops have come to a resolution not to grant licenses for the remarriage of divorced persons. —A Chinese Sunday-school has been organized in St. Louis in connection with the American Sunday-school Union. —Anti-Christianity is popular. Die Gartenlaube, a weekly paper in Germany which opposes Christianity, has a circulation of 600,000. —The preachers in attendance at the weekly Presbyterian meeting in Chicago, admit a falling off in church attendance. They trace the cause to skeptical literature and hard times. —The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has resigned the presidency of the Brooklyn Lay College, on account of his "enlarged pastoral duties and new Christian work" which he is about to undertake. —The Master of Trinity, Cambridge, lately remarked at a Fellows' meeting, at which some over-confident opinions were advanced: "Gentlemen, we are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us." —The Central Presbyterian church of St. Louis built a house at a cost of $125,000. They could not carry their debt, and the Unitarians got the mortgage, foreclosed, and took the house at half cost. —The Richmond, Va., Advocate complains that the hand of ordination is laid too suddenly on ministerial candidates by the Methodists of that section, without due regard to character and qualifications. —A Scotch journal states that upwards of $200,000 of the Sustentation fund of the Free church, from which the stipends of ministers are augmented, is locked up in the suspended City of Glasgow bank. —The Methodist makes the statement that one thousand families have been found in Brooklyn, nearly all of whom left the Methodist church owing to the "changeableness and uncertainty of the pastorate." —Dr. P. B. Morgan, of Cincinnati, has left the Episcopal church and united with the Reformed Episcopal, because the former is so fast drifting into Catholicism. He says "auricular confession" is fast gaining ground in that church. —The whole Bible has been translated into the Turkish language. Its translation into the language of the Sandwich Islands gave it to 55,000 people, a great work truly, but its translation into the Turkish gives it to 150,000,000 people. —The Evangelical Mennonites, in conference at Coopersburg, Pa., recently reaffirmed their position in antagonism to insurance companies, and expelled two ministers who refused to submit to the rule. The penalty for taking a policy is expulsion. —The final revision of the New Testament by the American and English revisers will be finished in course of a year, and will probably be published soon after, in advance of the Old Testament, the revision of which will not be completed for some years. —Rev. Washington Gladden, a prominent orthodox Congregational minister at Springfield, Massachusetts, says that within twenty-five years the doctrine of the endless conscious misery of those who die impenitent will be no longer insisted upon as fundamental in the evangelical system.