The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The Methodists have organized an
annual conference in the Mormon CAPT
tai.
The General Council of the Lutheran
Church will meet at Philadelphia, Oct
10.
In 1925 there were only eightyfoul
churches in New York city. Now there
are 4S9.
There is movement in Boston fol
the admission of girls to the Latir
School.
The trustees of the Peabody fund
have given $4,000 for the schools of Sar
Antonio, Tex.
There are Twenty-Five Protestant
pastors in Spain and there are six Prot
estant churches in Madrid.
The University of Leipzig has 2,93e
students, among whom about 100 are
English or American.
The General Convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church will begin its
session in Boston, Oct. 3.
The Presbytery of Central Texas re-
ports that not single Doctor of Divini-
ty among the Presbyterian ministers is
to be found within its limits
One of the Methodist papers, in or
der to counterfeit the decline of the class
system, proposes that the class-leaders
be paid to do sub-pastoral work in cities,
The Dartmouth Agricultural College
has only eight students in place of TWEEN
ty-four last year. None have entered
this fall, and the prospect isn't very en-
couraging.
The English Church Association pub
fishes list of the vestments, ornaments
and ceremonies which have been de.
clared illegal by the courts. The items
number tiftynine.
There is but one Presbyterian min
lister in Texas, it is stated, who reads his
Sermons. Sermon-reading is disCounte-
nanced there, and several ministers have
lost their places on account of it.
The following announcement APP
peared recently in an English paper:
st. James Church-On Sunday next
the afternoon service will commence at
ha!f-past three and continue until further
notice"
If the Northern and Southern Pres.
byterian Churches were united the sum
total of members would be $40, 1874. In
1861, when they parted, the total num-
Der of members in the united body was
300,S14.
Gov. Miller, of Arkansas, says that
that State is poor, and consequently pub
lie schools are not numerous, but in
many portions private schools are sup
plying ample facilities for the education
of the community.
Of the Presbyterian name and order
in New York city there are SO churches,
with 26, 636 communicates, representing
a Presbyterian population of 100000.
The EpisCopalians number 1865; the
Baptists 1887, and Methodists 1861.
Rev. Charles H. Leinbach, of Penn
sylvania, claims that in the past 13 years
he has preached l ,450 sermons, baptized
1910 infants and so adults, preached
$40 funeral sermons, married $50 couples
and administered communion to IL, 600
persons.
The plan is proposed of sending out
the poor and unemployed of the great
cities, by the churches, to the vacant
lands of the West. The Roman Catho-
lies are already sending out such colonies
to the West and South The Vineland
plan is proposed as a model.
The Adventist College at Battle
Greek, Mich, opened with 221 pupils,
and 121 of them have formed cooper
ative club, which reduces their expenses,
individually, to $1.10 per week. The
bill OF fare is not given.
"A clergyman so seldom voluntarily
leaves a lucrative benefice for a charge
of less value that it is particularly worthy
of note when he does so. The Hon.
and Rev. H. Douglas, rectorof Hanbury,
near Bromsgrove, Eng, living worth
81 200 year, has resigned it and &C
cepted the vicarage of the populous par
ish of st. Paul, Worcester, with an en-
dowment of less than goo.
Yale has another windfall. By the
death of Mrs. Carolina NJ Street, of New
Haven, the widow of the late Augustus
*. Street, the benefactor of Yale, who
died at the age of eightyseven years,
the college comes into possession of a
hdll lnleTcSI III inc DJTeeL DuiiulHp IN
New Haven, which is to endow pro-
censorship in the Theological School, to
be called "The Titus Street Professor
ship" and other property.
"A novelty in American Presbyterian
history is the election of a layman, DR..
William Eldmer, ruling elder, as Mod
orator of the West Jersey Presbytery.
AS the directory of the Presbyterian
Church requires that Presbyteries, like
Synods and the General Assembly, shall
be opened with preaching, the Moderator
appointed minister to do the duty usu-
ally discharged by the Moderator. There
were times, in the early history of the
Church of Scotland, when ruling elders
were called to be Moderators of church
courts, but it is something new in the
practice of modern Presbyterianism.
The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of San
Francisco, recently attended a Sabbath.
school at Salt Lake City, in which the
following catechism was propounded by
one of the elders and answered in unison
by the children:
Q.-When is Pioneers Day? A.-The Goth
day Of July.
Q.-What is Pioneers Day? A.-The en-
trance Of the Saints into the valley.
Q-When did they enter the valley? A
Thirty years ago.
Q.-Who led them? A-brigham Young.
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