RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
-More than 400 Jews have perished at Mogador, Morocco, from cholera. -The Methodist church in Iowa is said to have a church for every 2,000 inhabitants in that State. -Paris has 65,000 houses, London 460,000 more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna and New York combined. -There are in England and Wales 9,000 places in which Methodism has no preaching room or chapel. -Upwards of 1,200 churches in Great Britain now use the unfermented wine, the true "fruit of the vine," and free from alcohol, for communion purposes. -The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indian tribes in the United States is 117. -The Government of Russia has at last withdrawn its prohibition against missionary enterprise in Central Asia. The Synod of the Russian church has prepared to found extensive missions in all parts of Turkestan. -The Methodist church of Canada is growing rapidly. Within four years it has received an increase of 20,499 members, and 134 ministers, besides sending out 137 more foreign missionaries than before. The total membership is now 113,153. -The largest Sunday-school in the world is at Stockport, a town in England, with a population of only 53,014. The school building cost $100,000, and has about 90 teaching rooms. Since its opening, 5,084 teachers, and 90,804 scholars have been registered. -A late estimate puts the number of Protestants in Spain at 30,000, but this embraces the large mass who call themselves Protestants simply because they oppose the priests. The Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyans, Episcopalians, Baptists, and the German, Swiss, French and Dutch Committees are represented in Spain by about thirty regular congregations and one hundred evangelical laborers. -Texas has an estimated population of about 2,000,000. Its religious statistics, carefully collected, show as follows: Baptists, 92,000; Methodist Episcopal, South, 90,000; Methodist Episcopal, North; 18,000; Methodist Protestant, 1,000; Presbyterian, Cumberland, 22,500; Presbyterian, Southern, 7,200; Presbyterian, Northern, 1,100; Christian, Campbellite, 11,000; Lutheran, Evangelical, 5,000; Roman Catholic, 10,000.