RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The cathedral of St. Peter, at Rome, can contain 54,000; that at Milan, 37,000; St. Paul's, London, 25,000. —The Methodists are spending about $1,000 a month for missionary work in Calcutta. They have recently rented a large building at $2,400 a year, for sailors' meetings. —There is perhaps no preacher in the world whose sermons are more widely read than Dr. Talmage's. About 250,000 copies of them are printed every week in England. —During the past year 270 special religious Sunday services were held in London theatres and public halls, with an aggregate attendance of 219,000 persons. The meetings are regarded as a success. —The Catholics have bought 7000 acres of land in Mecklenburg, Va., on which they are going to establish an industrial farm for educating freedmen. The Benedictine Fathers will have charge of the farm. —The Bible Christian church, Philadelphia, founded in that city in 1817, by the Rev. Dr. Metcalfe, who came with a small band of pilgrims of the Bible Christian church from England, celebrated last week its sixtieth anniversary. —The steamship Nevada, which arrived at New York June 5, had 341 Mormons aboard, who spent the night in Castle Garden. They are accompanied by two Elders, who have spent two years in Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, securing converts. Six hundred Mormons will soon arrive, mostly from Sweden. —Nine Roman Catholic churches in Philadelphia have been entered within a month by burglars, who carried off silver altar vessels, the contents of poor boxes, and other portable things worth taking. In one instance they fired the edifice, but the flame was quickly discovered and extinguished. They also wantonly destroyed vestments. —The news has come from the Bible Society's agent at Buenos Ayres that Mongiardino, the ablest and most enterprising Bible colporteur in South America, who had not been heard from in months, was assassinated in Bolivia nearly a year ago, having fallen a victim to the determined hatred of the Book which he commended and sold. His assassins were suffered to escape. Like the first Christian martyr, he was stoned to death.—Christian Weekly.