RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES:
—Long pastorates are found to be most numerous in New England. —The exact deficiency of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board, for the year just closed, is $47,929. —Mayor Howell of Brooklyn recently reviewed a Sunday-school army of 40,000 children in procession. —The church of Scotland has sent five young men to China to inaugurate its mission work in that country. —There are one hundred and eighteen Congregational ministers in Connecticut who are without pastoral charge. —The Miami Conference of the United Brethren church has resolved not to receive any minister who uses tobacco. —Total population of the earth, 1,396,752,000; under Christian governments, 685,450,411; under non-Christian governments, 711,383,589; total area of the earth in square miles, 52,062,470; area of Christian governments, 32,419,915; area of non-Christian lands, 19,642,555. —The Baptist Missionary Union closes its financial year with a deficit of $26,000. Its total receipts were $218,307. The recent death of Rev. Jacob Vonbrunn among the Bassus in Liberia leaves the Union without a representative in Africa. —Rev. P. B. Morgan, for many years rector of St. John's Episcopal church, Cincinnati, the most flourishing Episcopal church of that city, has announced his resignation, and his purpose to give in his adhesion to the Reformed Episcopal church. —In the Reformed Episcopal Council at Newark, N. J., a few days since, the Committee on Popular Amusements reported against theatrical amusements, games, and dancing, as not among the amusements sanctioned by the church, and discouraging frivolous and worldly modes of raising funds, and also requesting communicants to abstain from such entertainments. —The Northern Methodist Episcopal church in the South embraces 14 Conferences of white ministers and members, containing 206,204 members; 14 colored Conferences, having 189,803 preachers and members; making a total of nearly 400,000. In the Conferences of whites the value of church property is set down at $6,864,123, and in the colored Conferences at not quite $1,000,000. —At a meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, May 30, the report of the secretary was read, showing 18 missions, 82 stations, 534 out stations among nations speaking twenty-six different languages, with a population of 100,000,000. Total working force from America, 355; total native laborers, 1,102; churches, 262; church members, 14,500; total number under instruction, 25,910. —The late Charlotte Harrison, of Orange, N. J., among other benevolent bequests, made the following: Orange Orphan Asylum, $2,000; Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal church, $5,000; New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society, $1,000; American church Missionary Society, $6,000; besides $15,000 to be equally divided between the Convention of the Protestant church of New Jersey and Domestic Committee of the P. E. Missionary Society. —The Greek church embraces 80,000,000 worshipers in Russia, Greece, Austria, and Turkey, most of whom are furious fanatics, hating all other forms of Christianity and all other religions than their own. Their most active resentments are against Mohammedans and Roman Catholics. This church differs little from the Latin form of Christianity, but enough to exasperate the schism into one of furious animosity. On the doctrines of purgatory, and the union of the divine and human natures of Christ, the celibacy of the clergy, and some minor points, the difference is maintained with the keenest controversy. The czar is the head of the church, and claims the vicarage and vicegerency of God as boldly and sternly as the Roman Pontiff.