The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Three counties of California have
women School Superintendent.
The fall term at Dartmouth College
opened with eighty students in the fresh
man class.
The town of Lawrence, Kan, had
ouly one vote against the maintenance of
public schools.
Fisk University, at Nashville, Tenn,
has projected training school for Afri-
can missionaries.
The Baptists have twenty organized
churches among the Creek Indians, most
of which have Indian pastors.
The senate of London University is
willing to let women take the degree of
NJ. D., but the convocation objects.
The freshman class at Yale had
175 applicants for admission and sixty
nine others for the Scientific School.
The Old Testament revisers en-
glish) have carried their work as far as the
completion of the first revision of Hosea.
The Trustees of the University of
Georgia have entered upon a campaign
against the secret societies in the institu-
ton.
Brown University proposes to give
no degrees hereafter save in acknowl-
edgment of some special literary per-
Torrance.
The Centenary Collegiate Institute,
at Hackettstown, N. j., had last year IT'S
students ia the various departments. 1t
is for both sexes.
The laboratories for women, which
were established six months ago at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
are said to be successful.
The Springfield Republican knows of
church whose pulpit is being supplied
month by {" real live professor" in re-
turn for his pew-rent for year.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions in this country have an aggregate
membership of 66,S94, of whom $4,000
are in New York and Pennsylvania.
Thirty Chinese merchants in San
Francisco have united in an appeal to the
Board of Education to have public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese
youth.
The percentage of male teachers in
the Boston schools is thirteen. Superin-
tendent Philbrick thinks that the schools
would be more efficient if more men were
employed.
The Utah Methodist Conference has
been organized by Bishop Wiley at Salt
Lake City. There are seven ministers in
the conference, of whom two are sta
toned in Salt Lake City.
The opening sermon at the annual
meeting of the Board of Foreign Missions
at Providence, Oct. 2-5, will be preached
by President }. H. Fairchild, of Oberlin
(Ohio) College.
The community of Adventists at
Danvers, Mass, convinced that Saturday
is the proper day to observe as the Sab
bath, have given notice that hereafter
they will do no work on that day.
Bishop O'Connell, of California, has
announced to his diocese that, according
to instructions received from Rome, no
Catholic can participate in round
dances" under pain of mortal sin.
In Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta, Ma
con and Columbus, Ga, there are schools
open to white and black. In the coun-
try districts the schools are inadequately
supported and poorly attended.
The first Catholic Church in Boston
was erected in 1903, and the See of Bos-
ton was constituted in 1910. Itnow con-
tains 200 priests and 81 900 Catholics.
The State Of Massachusetts has half a
million of Catholics.
There are forty-three Protestant
churches in San Francisco, and of the
American population of 100000 only
about 1000 attend church. The Cen
trail Presbyterian Church has been dis
banded for want of support.
The beautiful Methodist Church in
Saratoga, N. Y, which cost over 81 ,000,-
600, is almost held in the grasp of the
Sheriff for debt of $50 600, and will be
actually in his grip ere long unless this
sum or part of it is paid.
Provost Kinowski has been con-
demned by the Court of Posen to a fine
of 6,S40 marks, or in default two years,
imprisonment, for doing unauthorized
official acts" a. e., for preaching and
praying without the permission of the
Government. ,..
The JeaoiSh Messenger contains
leading article headed "Our Anomalous
Condition" The Jews, at present, it
says, are without rule or order; their
congregations legislate for their own
small communities, while the collective
body is permitted to run wild.
The Churchman formulates an opin-
ion on church union as follows: "Sects
that approximate in everything but
name, and keep up distinctions merely
for the sake of being distinct, are nui-
sances. But when a distinction repre-
sents principle, we say, Stick to it till
the principle is shown to be false"
The Church Union prophesies after
this fashion: The church of the future
will not be sectarian or UNCONVENTIONAL
1T will be one body in Christ, and all
its members will be Christians. They
will not call themselves by the names of
men. or of ordinances; but all will be
satisfied with that good old-fashioned
name, Christian.
Complaint has been made to the
Bishop of Winchester against the Rev.
Reginald Shuttle, of st. Michaers, Ports
mouth, England, for the use of illegal
ceremonies and vestments. He is also
charged with exhorting his parishioners
to confession, as follows: "Come bold