The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Glrard College has educated 1 ,3O
boys, and expended $4,000 on them
Two young ladies take degrees a
Cornell University.
Amherst College needs $500, 900 t,
supply its pressing needs.
st. Louis has cut down its teachers
salaries y per cent, and thus saves t,
the city treasury about $4,000 per an
mum.
The English company of New Tes
lament revlsers are now engaged upon thu
second revision of the Acts of the Apos
ties.
Bangor Theological Seminary vii
send its students out to preach this sum
mer wherever a church or community
Will agree to pay the expenses.
The Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF
Indiana has given up half of his salary
Tor the coming year in consequence OF
the financial embarrassments.
There are at Cambridge University,
England, $50 fellowships, in value from
800 to $500 a year, of which fiftv-two
are available only for men who take holv
orders.
The Baptist Missionary Union re.
ports its receipts for the year at 1853,
146, against $1G5, 637 last year. The
debt of the union has been increased by
$17,225, amounting to SAT, 3G1.
in ffty-tive years the Catholics in
Pennsylvania have increased in popula-
ton from $4,000 to 5G5, 900. Their
churches have increased from IS to 400,
and their priests from 20 to $50.
The Wisconsin State Convention of
Danish Baptist Churches held its annual
session recently. The convention COM
prises eleven churches, with twelve pas
tors and State missionary,
The United Methodist Free Churches
of England, body of upward of 10000
members, has 81 missionaries in the for
eign field and 6,540 members, being an
increase of 267 the past year.
OF the forty members of the grad
uating class at Williams College, twelve
are to be ministers, seven lawyers, four
physicians, three business men, three
teachers, one a journalist, and the rest
are undecided.
The Presbyterian Church of England
has fifteen missionaries in China, who
occupy several stations in the districts of
Annoy, Swatow and Formosa, are assisted
by forty-nine native evangelists, and have
twenty-seven students under their charge.
The Wisconsin E piscopal Diocesan
Convention passed resolution favoring
the removal of the words protestant
Episcopal" from the title of that church,
and restoration of her catholic and
apostolic title to the church in America"
The sect of the Pilgers receives con-
tant accessions to its numbers in Siberia
The Pilgers cut themselves loose from
all family ties, change their names, and
either live in the forest or tramp from
village to village. They hold it no sin
to kill the members of other religious
sects.
Amherst College this year conferred
the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon a
Roman Catholic clergyman, Father Hew-
lit, of New York. This is strange de-
parture for Amherst, which was founded
by orthodox New England Congrega-
and has ever since been under
the control of that denomination.
We will not encourage you to hope
that you can buy your way to heaven,
but if on every Sunday you will put into
the contribution box nickel for each
sin committed during the preceding
week you will soon have the satisfaction
OF knowing that you belong to pros
porous church. -Brun8wick NecS.
d. G.. e
the Latter-Day Saints, which in April held
its annual conference in Plano, Ill. 1t
reports 316 branches and 10, 2S5 mem
bers; denounces the polygamous creed
of the church in Utah, but accepts the
Book of Mormon as inspired. Joseph
Smith, son of the founder of the Nor
mon polity, is the President.
Rev. W. T. Helms, of Nashville,
Tenn, has written letter to RI Rev
Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, sig
nifying his withdrawal from the Prot
estant Episcopal Church, in order to join
the Reformed Episcopal Church He
cannot conscientiously make the sign of
the cross in baptism, and Bishop Quin-
tard, of Tennessee-to whom he had
letter dismlssory from Bishop Akin
not sanction its omission.
The London SATURDAY Reoieao says:
C A very curious society has chosen the
present as favorable moment for re-
vealing its existence. 1t is called the
Militia of Jesus Christ, and it is said to
number a million Of volunteers, princi-
pally in France and Belgium. Its great
object is to be the restoration of the tenn
poral power of the Pope. 1t is, in fact,
to be "a sort of Ultramontane Interna-
tional."
Some persons have ponderous and
manner in prayer which pro-
duces certain effect as of ostentatiOn,
though it may not be really meant for
show. On the other hand, there is a
in prayer that passes easily
into tiippancy, and which is most often
sive or improper. God is in heaven, and
we are on the earth. He is Father in
heaven, and may be trusted and loved;
but he is also to be honored and revered.
.C0ngregatiOnaIiSt.
The death of six Cardinals within
the last six months leaves only six living
members of the Sacred College who were
appointed by Gregory XVI, namely:
Amati, the Dean of the college, born in
1896; DE Angels, born in 1892; Won