The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

II
Of siXty-nine words which make up
the Lords Prayer, only five are not
Saxon.
The Methodists find their receipts
for the cause of missions for the year to
be over 100000.
The new Methodist hymn-book is
being put in type, and will be issued
shortly i'll seven editions.
There are upward of 10000 Sun
day-schools in the United States, with
about 5000, 900 scholars.
"A teacher in the school-room is all
right-but teacher out of the school
room is an insufferable bore.-Educd-
ttOnaL Monthly.
The Christian World, of London,
says that Presbyterians in England,
with a few exceptions, favor revision
of the Confession of Faith
-' Husband" said the wife of a
young clergyman, "read me one of
your sermons. l feel dreadfully wake
full tonight and wish to Sleep
The First Baptist Church of Balti-
more has sent out forty young men who
have entered the ministry. Some of
them have attained to celebrity.
The Bishop of Winchester said at
the Church Congress that if anyone
sent him a religious newspaper he put
it at once in the waste-paper basket.
-Courtlandt Parker, the great New
Jersey lawyer, fills pulpit in Newark
regularly every Sunday, and is said to
be as good Il preacher as he is a lawyer
According to the Evangelist, more
than AZ, 900 were added last year to the
Presbyterian Church in the North Six
teen churches received more than 100
members each.
The Rev. Eben HALEY says: 1.-The
best contribution Christian church can
make to the future generations is an
intieXible and uncompromising adher-
ence to the truth"
Rev. James Freeman Clarke de- |
clares the admission of women students
to Harvard College is necessity, and
he believes that it will not be long I'M
til such admission takes place.
There are II 900 infants between the |
ages of four and six years in attend |
ance on the public schools of New York,
and the Medico Legal Society of that
city enters vigorous protest against
the insane cruelty.
The opponents of Bible-reading in
the public schools have received a strong
reinforcement at New Haven, where
the Board of Educations Committee
have reported in favor of abolishing all
religious exercises in the High School,
The total amount raised by the
Protestant Episcopal Church the past
year for home and foreign and city and
diocesan missions was 1888, 637, and the
amount contributed for all church pur-
poses was $500, 44S.
The Sunday-school statistics of New
Hampshire show 10, 1857 scholars in the
Congregational schools, as many in the
Methodist, 1852 in the Free-will Bap-
fist, 1892 in the Closet Communion Bap-
fist, and 1901 in the Universalist
schools.
Mr.. P. E. DeMill, treasurer of the |
Episcopal diocese of Michigan, reports
that of siXty-ive parishes-assessed an
aggregate of 50, S20-forty- haven't
paid a cent, seven have partly paid up,
and only four have paid up all that is
due.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has erected seventeen churches in Balti- !
more in the past seventeen years. In
the same period, the Southern Method !
lists have added eight churches, the In
dependent Methodists six and African
Methodists several. Some of the indie |
pendent churches are very strong.
The missionaries of the Basel Soci- |
ETY. make report as to caste in India
which is not in accord with the ac-
cepted idea. They say that caste preju- |
dice readily gives way before Christian
izing influences, and natives of different |
castles intermarry now so generally that |
such wedding eXcites little comment. |
"A lady teacher in neighboring
village submits the following excuse
recently written by mother who rath-
er prides herself on associating only
with L" intellectable'' people: Miss
please Excuse minnie for She was help
ing me She is a great help to me thou
Small she may be | would miss hur if |
the Lord should Call hur at any time
& oblige Mrs. B-."-Rome Sentinel.
The Wisconsin Baptists want to
adopt the Methodist circuit system,
which is particularly applicable to
churches in sparsely-settled neighbor-
hoods, too poor to support a settled |
ministry. Among many of the Baptist
churches of that State the question is
between furnishing this sort of services
and closing the meeting-houses alto
gether.
Some of the Unitarian churches in
Massachusetts are adopting a rite which
they call g Confirmation Lately the
vow was taken by eleven young persons
in church in Massachusetts with the
following words: "The road which |
know Christian should take l choose. |
/ take it humbly, for know my weak
ness; but take it deliberately, meaning
to keep it, God helping me, to my life's
end.''
In formally providing for an order
of deaconesses in the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, the late General Conven-
ton took especial care to forbid vow
for life. "No deaconess or sister,
says the new canon, shall take any
vow of perpetual obligation in admis-
sion to or connection with her oflice.n