RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—About one hundred and forty Mormons arrived in New York October 30, and were soon to depart for Utah. —Mohammedanism has 150,000,000 followers. In Syrian Universities, 10,000 boys study nothing but the Koran. —During the past twelve years 800 English, Irish, and American Protestants have joined the Catholic church in Paris. —The funeral of Cardinal Cullen took place in Dublin, October 30, and was witnessed by 65,000 people, while 10,000 took part in the ceremonies and procession. —There were 12,000 Hebrews in the yellow fever districts of the South when the scourge began. The 250,000 Jews in America have contributed to their relief $60,000. —The American Baptists in Rome opened a new church October 3, near the Valle theater. All evangelical ministers, members of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and Rev. Mr. Taylor, at the head of the Baptist Mission, took part in the services. —A Sunday-school was founded in Hamburg, Germany, as early as 1789, but in 1862 in all the States now composing the German empire there were only thirty-two schools. At present it is estimated that there are 1,500, with a membership of more than 100,000. —From the proceeds of the sale of the Moody and Sankey hymn books, Mr. Moody has given $5,000 to Wellesley College for Women. It is not specified what use shall be made of the money, but it is said that it will be permanently invested as an endowment fund for Moody and Sankey scholarships. —An undenominational chapel will soon be built in the Yosemite valley. The structure is to be of stone, and the cost $5,300. The Call says the building is to be ready for occupancy, by the 6th of June, 1879, when the great Sunday-school Assembly will convene. The funds come from the issuance of certificates, most of which are purchased in single shares, of twenty-five cents each, by Sunday-school children. The committee, in whose hands the arrangements for the Yosemite Sunday-school have been entrusted, have sent circulars far and wide through the eastern States, explaining its object and inviting the co-operation of Sunday-school workers.