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Show no I N news. I The Weekly Religions Review, Re-view, ' New York, 24. Tho religious I obituary lint, this week, would be swelled out ol all proportion by reason of the ravages of yellow lever in the south. All large towns where the fever prevails are mourning for the loss of clergymen by the dreadful scourge. Scarcely a small town even has escaped. Besides, many clergymen clergy-men have Hed for their lives. Nor is this all. The religious journals in lhat tection have suflered from the loss of editorB and employes, and many have consequently reduced the size or suspended altogether. Tho Christian at Work has at length discovered that ihe San Fraucioco Sunday school picnic was not held on j Sunday, but on Thursday. Tne editorsays: "Wo are glad to make a correction of the error iuto which we were iuadverteutly led." The same paper Btys: "And now' it is Christmas service that bothers our friends, the Scotch Presbyterians. Last Cbriatmaa Rev. Walter Smith opened his oburcb in the morning and preached, but it happens that in 1678 the general assembly prohibited, the holding ol service on that day. Therefore, upon complaiut of Rev., Walter Balfour, Smith was brought before the Free Presbytery of Elin-burgh Elin-burgh for his oflence. Dr. Begg strongly supported a motion of cen-mi cen-mi re, but by a vote of 14 lo 1G, the Prfisbvtrv resolved to take no aclion 1 in the mailer. Balfour announces that "bo will appeal to the synod, but ho will probably get little comfort ! there. I A microphone was recently placed in a church at Halifax, England, 'connected by a private telegraph line 1 with the residence of a gentleman over a mile distant. Every part of the service was distinctly heard at the gentleman's house, with the exception ex-ception of ft few words rendered indistinct in-distinct by the preacher's becoming a little excited and shaking tho microphone. micro-phone. The Cliristian at Work hopes the system will he extensively copied, but only for the benefit of the sick and aged. A member of a Baptist congregation congrega-tion in Yorkshire, England, having died recently, the funeral services at the hoDBe were conducted by a Baptist Bap-tist minister. At the crave, however. the vicar of the parish conducted the ceremonies, consequently no objection was made to interment. The Christian Union says: "Butler is Kearney's legal adviser. He tells him that no Btate can be constitutionally constitu-tionally required to harbor or protect a "Curse." Is this a gentle hint to Kearney that it will be well for nim to leave Massachusetts?" Dr. Hulbert, late of San Francisco, but temporarily in Chicago, is desired as pastor by both the Fourth Baptist ohurch of the latter city and the First Baptist church of Evanston, III. The Methodist says the Bethel ship bad unusually good congregations ou Sunday morning and evening last past. The evening preaching was followed by a prayer meeting, when the altar was crowded with penitent sailors. 1 The same paper Bays Moody haa given $5,000 to Wellesley college from the proceeds of tho sale of Moody and Sankey hymn books. It will be permanently per-manently invested in a scholarship to be known as the "Moody and Sankey Scholarship," and be used in educating educat-ing some deserving beneficiary. apurgeon haa information from Belgrade that one of bis sermons has has been translated into the Servian tongue and sent to each of the 1,200 priests and teachers in that country. |