Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
—There is a denomination of "Congregational Methodists" in Georgia. —Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell intends to enter the ministry again soon. —It has been remarked that, however hard the times, "the wages of sin" have never been cut down. —They are waging war on the Jesuits and their Colleges in France, in the Chamber of Deputies. —Rev. Edward Eggleston has dramatized the Pilgrim's Progress. And the critics say it is not a comic play. —In Calcutta there are 199 Hindu temples, 117 Mahometan mosques, 31 Christian churches, and 2 Jewish synagogues. —David J. Hill, recently elected President of Brown University, is the youngest College President in the country—about thirty. —An entire peninsula of 225 acres has been purchased for the Sunday-school Assembly to be held this year at Minnetonka Lake, Minn. —There are thirty-five colored students in the theological department of Harvard University, representing five denominations. —Bishop Lyman, in Utah, recently compelled with a drawn revolver, a clerk of an election to make a certificate for a Mormon. —The Evangelical Mennonites expel all members who insure their lives, and two ministers have been disciplined of late for this offense. —The third Sunday in April the ministers of St. Louis have appointed to preach upon "the Sabbath and its Observance." Now for a medley! —Pope Leo XIII., at a recent reception to Catholic journalists, invited them to sustain, with all their influence, the temporal power of the Pope. —Dr. Newman Hall declares that the churches of Great Britain have lost thirty thousand members within the last three years by intemperance. —The Bishop of Louisville, Ky., has prohibited religious services over the dead in his diocese in houses or in churches. They must be performed at the grave. —A Free Methodist church in Toledo, Ohio, to show its separation from the world, causes its members to wear wide red ribbons inscribed with crosses on their breasts. —The Richmond Religious Herald says: Here in the South are thousands of Baptist churches that promise their pastors but about $150 salary, and don't pay that. —A colporteur says in many parts of Nebraska Paine and Ingersoll are so strongly believed in that not a Christian or one willing to read religious works can be found. —James De Koven, D. D., of Racine, Wis., College, died suddenly of apoplexy, March 27. He was eminent in the Episcopal church, and lately refused a call to Trinity, N. Y., and also to St. Mark's, Philadelphia. —A Conference of prominent Baptists held in New York city recently advised the Baptist denomination to co-operate with the American Bible Society, the difficulties which formerly interposed having been removed. —Since 1840, new translations of the Bible have been made in 215 languages. In some cases a written language had to be formed for the purpose. In Madagascar a company of revisers has been sitting for over ten years. —Rev. P. P. Lawlor, of St. Mary's, New London, Conn., announced recently, that here-after the names of all Catholics who appear before the police court will be publicly made known in church, and their offenses described to the congregation. —The Conference of Baptist Ministers of San Francisco struck the name of Rev. H. W. Reed from the roll because he said the Christian people of California were not opposed to the Chinese. The Watchman, of Boston, says that does not effect his standing in the denomination. —A convention to arouse an interest in "the proper observance of Sunday," is to be held in Springfield, Mass., May 7 and 8. The best talent of the denominations is expected there. We are anxious to know how they will ascertain what is a "proper" observance of Sunday. —The ex-pastor of Frank street Methodist church, in Rochester, N. Y. sued the church for back pay, and the jury rendered a verdict in his favor. The Discipline expressly says no unpaid salary shall be considered a debt, but the jury regarded it as a civil contract and allowed the claim. —In all New England the Baptists have 23,908 churches, and 14,596 ministers; the Methodists 16,099 churches, and 11,267 ministers; Congregationalists 3,500 churches and 3,333 ministers; Presbyterians 5,153 churches, and 4,801 ministers; Episcopalians 2,700 churches, and 3,230 ministers. —Moses E. Lard, in a recent sermon, contends "that there is a literal hell; that the wicked will be cast into it; that there is no promise of escape from it; that aionios only means age upon age, and may not mean endless duration; and that it has not been revealed whether the punishment of the wicked will ever end." Mr Lard is considered one of the ablest of Disciple preachers and writers. On this subject his vision is not yet fully clear.