—The one hundredth Presbyterian church in Nebraska has recently been organized.
—June 7, two hundred Mormons en route for Utah, passed through Council Bluffs, Iowa.
—A union church has been organized at Hammondsville, N. Y., representing six denominations.
—Dr. Burchard has been pastor of the Thirteenth St. Presbyterian Church in New York, forty years.
—The Moravian denomination originated in Bohemia and was expelled thence years ago. It is now prospering there.
—The Gospel temperance work in Chicago has been steadily prosecuted for five years, and is more prosperous now than ever.
—The recent gift of $136,000 to the Rochester Theological Seminary has been increased by donations from persons in New York City to $150,000.
—The Methodist church South asks, its ministers the question—"Are you under any burden of debt that is embarrassing?" This is a good idea.
—The 28th ult., being the Jewish feast of the Pentecost, the sacred rights of Confirmation were administered in all the leading Synagogues in San Francisco.
—It is believed that there are but few colored Catholics outside Louisiana. In that State they are very numerous. In one ward in New Orleans there are 11,000 of them.
—Two Fall River ministers condemned the sale of newspapers on Sunday in recent sermons, and the City Marshal thereupon issued orders prohibiting their sale the following Sunday.
—A small church of Catholics was formed in Newark, N. J., in 1824. Now there are eleven churches with over 30,000 members, besides many other institutions, with property valued at $1,200,000.
—Late advices from China are to the effect that an anti-missionary riot has occurred in the province of Foochow, and that fresh outrages have been perpetrated on the native Christians and English preachers in Yik-kan.
—The Rev. James F. Merriam, whose examination, to become pastor of the church at Indian Orchard, Mass., nearly two years ago, led to so much discussion on eternal punishment, has resigned on account of feeble health.
—The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions has been badly embarrassed, but lately received donations amounting to $1,000,000. President Hopkins said it had been tried by adversity, "but no test as severe as this has been applied to it."
—The Yo Semite Chapel was dedicated Sunday, June 8. Joseph Cook made the prayer, and Dr. Guard of Oakland preached the sermon. The chapel is barely enclosed. The National S. S. services were held in a cotton-covered framework near by.
—Active steps are taking for the formation of a Female Missionary Association to be connected with the English Presbyterian church, having for its object the Christian education of the women of China. The Regent Square congregation, London, have been the first to form a branch society.
—Rev. J. C. Simmons in the Pacific Methodist appeals to ministers and church-members to abstain from tobacco, unless indeed they love tobacco more than they love Christ, and says, "I know members of the church who spend from $20 to $40 per year for tobacco, who are not able to give $5 to the support of the Gospel nor one dollar to the Missionary cause, and yet these men love Christ. But do they love him more than tobacco?" Bro. Simmons makes the statement that a large majority of boys over seven years of age smoke, and many both smoke and chew. Talk to a boy about it and he will point you to his minister and often to a Bishop and say, "If it is wrong, why do these good men use it?"
—The Fifth Avenue Catholic Cathedral, of New York, was dedicated May 25. It has been 21 years in building, is an example of the decorated and geometric style of Gothic architecture which prevailed in Europe from 1275 to 1400, and of which the cathedrals of Rheims, Amiens, and Cologne on the Continent of Europe, and the naves of Yorkminster, Exeter, and Westminister, are among the most advanced examples. The dimensions of the building, are as follows:—Extreme length of the exterior 332 feet, extreme breadth of 174, general breadth 132, towers at base 32, height of tower 330, central door 30 feet wide, 51 high, width of front between towers 105. The interior in length is 306 feet, breadth of nave and choir, including chapels 120, length of transept 140, central aisle 48 feet wide, 112 chapels 18 feet wide, 14 feet high. It is adorned by the most magnificent memorial windows to be seen on this continent. They were manufactured mainly in France at an aggregate cost of more than $100,000, and presented by parishes and individuals in various parts of the country. Of the the seventy windows in the cathedral, thirty-seven are figured, representing scenes from the Scriptures and the lives of the saints; twenty are filled with cathedral-stained glass, with geometrical figures, and the remainder, which are required for lighting the building, are filled with white glass.