Religious And Educational

- A writor in the United Presbyterian' puts in a plea for nnfennented wine at the communion table. "Can it be," he asks, "that that which sends souls to heil is a proper symbol of the blood of Christí" - The Norikweslern reeommends that the Churoh Choir singers who sing in ! "Pinafore" be given an indefinite fiirlough, and that their places be suppliedj by those who do not misuse their churoh prestige. - The Colorado Methodist Conference' reporta 2,723 members and 342 probationers, making a total of 2,965, and an increaso for the year of 697 They have thirty-six churches, forty-two local preachcrs and 3,783 Sunday-School children. - A society for the promotion of Scriptnral instrnction among the Irishspeaking popnlation of Ireland had an income last year of f26,140. At its ; recent annuai meeting the chairman, Lord Plunkett, Bishop of Meath, said that there were still 800,000 persons in the country who speak Irish, and 163,000 could not speak English. - Catholic anthoritiea state that the remains of the Apostles ot. Christ are now in the following places: Seven are in Rome: nnmely, Peter, Philip, James the Lesser, Jude, Bartholomew, Mathias and Simon. Tiiree are in the' Kingdom of Naples; Matthew at Salerno, Andrew at Amalfi, andThomas at Ortona. One is in Spain, James the Greater, whose remains are at St. Jago de Compostello. Of the body of St. John the Evangelist, the' remaining one of the twelve, there is no knowledge. The Erangelists Mark and Lttke age also in Itr'!y--lhe former' at Venice, and the lattbr at Padua. j St. Paul's remains are also believed to' be in Italy. Peter' s are of course in" ths Church at Ilon-.e whieh is called fter him. as are also those of Simon od Jude. Those of James the Lesser' and of Philip are in tho. Church of the Holy Apostles, Bartholomew's in the church on the island in the Tiber called after him, while Mathias1 are in the Santa Maria Maggiore", under the great' altar of the renowued basilica.