Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
—Moody and Sankey will soon hold a series of meetings in Cleveland. —Three Protestant ministers died of yellow fever in Memphis this year, all Methodists. —Of the 940 Professors in the nine Universities of Prussia, 82 teach Protestant, and 25 Catholic theology. —Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church of 300 persons, from Delta, La., led by the pastor and deacons. —The Hartford Theological Institute is the only Congregational Seminary which has furnished any foreign missionaries this year. —Rev. Mr. Moses, of Portsmouth, N. H., is said to be the oldest minister in New England. He is 96 years old, and has preached sixty-five years. —The Congregationalist makes the statement that the regular receipts of the American Board for the year just closed, have fallen far short of the amount expended. —The French Chamber of Deputies has cut down Episcopal stipends by 5,000 francs each, making 435,000 f. in all, and has voted to give 2,000 priests 1,000 f., instead of 900 f. —The Nashville Advocate says the sales of their books to their own people average less than seven cents per annum! It seems hard to believe this, but we take it from a Methodist paper. —The growth of Romanism in New England for the last thirty years has been large, but almost entirely through immigration. It is claimed that her gain has not been equal to the amount of immigration, as some have renounced Romanism since coming to this country. —Mr. Grandison Fairchild is the father of three College Presidents, viz., Oberlin and Berea, Ohio, and Kansas State Agricultural. One of his sons-in-law is a Professor in the Michigan Agricultural College, and eight or nine of his grandsons are also College Professors. —The Indian Salvador was hanged at San Rafael on the 2d. He confessed that he had committed six murders. The priest was with him in prison and he died under the odor of sanctity. And what does this signify, that so many murderers are attended and consoled by Catholic priests? —The statistics of the Protestant Church in Berlin for 1878 reveal some curious facts. Only 69 per cent. of the Protestant children born in the year were baptized; only 35 per cent. of the marriages of Protestant couples were solemnized by a minister; and only 4,774 of the 9,535 Protestants who died were buried with religious services. —The Welsh Baptists have some six conferences in this country, the largest of which is the Eastern Pennsylvania, with 30 churches and 2,500 members. In all, there are about 5,000 Welsh Baptists in the United States. It is stated that the younger Welsh people all learn the English, and but for immigration the Welsh churches could not be kept up. —Rev. J. Kekela, who has for twenty-four years been a missionary on the Marquesas Islands, was in San Francisco last week, and left for Honolulu on Wednesday. He possesses a gold watch presented to him by President Lincoln for saving the mate of the American whale ship Congress, in 1864, from the hands of cannibals who had already bound him and intended to cook and eat him. —Dr. Schaff writes that the consideration of heathen missions at the Alliance meeting in Basle, "led to an important action of the Conference—a solemn protest against the infamous British opium trade in China, which was forced upon that vast empire against its will, at the point of the bayonet, and is one of the chief obstacles to the progress of Christianity in the East. A heathen nation protests against the poison, and a Christian nation forces it upon them." —A church bell which has just left a Troy foundry for Persia, will have certain peculiar associations attached to it. The funds for this purchase were given by a Presbyterian Sunday-school in California, and it is intended as a memorial to Mrs. Hattie Lyman Stocking, who died at Assam, on the River Tigris, in Nineveh. After it arrives at an Oriental port it will have a journey to make of several hundred miles on the backs of horses. It will be used for the church at Assam. —The Rev. Dr. N. Brown, missionary in Japan of the American Baptist Union, writes that he has completed the translation of the New Testament into the Japanese. He says since his arrival in Japan, six and a half years ago, his time has been about equally divided, exclusive of his regular missionary duties, between the study of the language and translating. He doubts "if there is any Eastern language into which the New Testament could be translated in a shorter time or one capable of expressing more naturally and truthfully the thought of the original." He transferred only two or three words in Greek—such as "Amen" and "hyssop." —Zion's Herald says most truly: "There is no conflict between science and religion: it is only between certain scientists and a distorted view of revelation. Science and true religion are one and inseparable, born of the same omniscience and equally leading the humble student back to the same fountain-head of knowledge and virtue."