RELIGIOUS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 6

RELIGIOUS.

There are 2,400 unmarried women in the foreign missionary field. The work of evangelization in Roman Catholic Belgium is in the hands of the Evangelical Society. Fully SO congregations and preaching places have been established. seventeen pastors, five candidates and five colporteurs are engaged in the work, which is done in both, the Flemish, and the French languages. The number of Sunday schools is now fifty-seven,, with an attendance of 2,350 children.. It is noteworthy that in the recent labour uprisings, none of the Evangelicals were complicated* and that although these people are all poor, they contributed last year nearly 50;000, francs for the work of the gospel. The work of revising the Bible -which is going on in Germany does not appear to be making the desired progress. This is partly owing to. the diminution which has taken place in the membership of the Commission,. but more to the failure of members to attend the conferences. A plenary meeting of the Commission held at Cologne lately was only attended- by S persons. The revisers began, the third and last reading of the Old Testament, taking first Isaiah aud the Psalms. The former book was finished and the latter half completed. Another sitting will be completedinthe Autumn, and then.the reading of the Psalms will be resumed, and the third reading of Jeremiah, Ezekiel,, and several of the minor prophets bo proceeded with. It has been found expedient that a Commission of scholars well acquainted, with the language ofLuther and the requirements of the present age should be appointed to decide on various, questions affecting the decision of the sample Bible which is being prepared, and the Minister for Public. Worship has agreed to defray all incidental expenses. Among the different Mennonite sects and the Dunkers religious worship is conducted with an austerity and asceticism that would delight the most rigorous of hermit monks. The ‘ meeting,’ while at the. plainest of churches or at the houses and. barns of members, is ever a holy place during service ; but the service over it is always whers a throng of true friends, will be found, and

these never separate until all differences are adjusted and all harts healed. “These preach only to the-living ; bury their dead lovingly and tenderly, and resist only the devil,” could truly be written over their doors and over their church entrances. —Eastern Exchange.