The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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highest prize in literary studies at the
University of Naples.
The Minnesota Methodist Conference
reports the following statistics: Mem
bers, 12,549; probationers, 1000.
"A good clergyman prayed fervently
for those of his congregation who were
too proud to kneel and too lazy to
stand"
Bishop Pennich, of the Episcopal
Church, has sailed for Liberia to enter on
the duties of his missionary bishopric
there.
Five sisters, who are nuns in Ca
madam convent, have turned into the
convent treasury their combined fortunes,
amounting to 100000.
During his long reign the Pope has
founded 1870 bishoprics. In Europe there
are 595 prelacies; in America, 72; in At
RIGA, II; in Asia, 10; and in Australia, 81.
The University of Upsala, Sweden,
has an income of nearly 100000 a year.
There are about $50 scholarships or sti-
ponds. In 1876 Upsala had l ,461 stu
dents.
Mr.. Moody, when he was resting
from his winters work at Northield,
on Sunday and took place in the Bible
class at noon.
The Synod of New Jersey sustained
the Presbytery of New Brunswick in sus-
pending Rev. John Miller, of Princeton,
for heresy on the doctrine of the Trinity
by d vote of 100 to 2.
The public-school system is becom-
ing petty despotism. A girl has been
expelled from school at Columbus, Ohio,
merely because her father will not allow
her to study drawing Courier Journal.
-Fifty-nine Sunday schools are re-
ported to have sent thirty dollars each for
the American Home Missionary Society,
on what is known as the weeping
Waters" plan, and a great many more
have pledged themselves to follow suit.
"A daily prayer-meeting is held in
what is known as the "King's Apart
ment" in the Pavilion, Brighton, En-
gland, built by George ". when ne was
Prince of Wales. twas once a place for
revelers-it is now place for prayer.
The Committee on Fraternity of the
Georgia Conference Northern Methodist)
reports "a growing spirit of fraternal
regard among all true Christians in the
South, with an ever-strengthening desire
for closer communion among the Protest
ant churches"
In Boston the question of classical
education in the free schools is under
discussion. Mayor Prince Charles Fran
els Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
many others publish remonstrance
against the entire public being taxed for
the exclusive benefit of the few.
"A smart girl in Vassar claims that
Phtholognyrrh should be pronounced
Turner, and gives this little table to eX-
plain her theory: ..
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The religious sentiment in San An
tonic, Tex, is overwhelmingly orthodox.
An infdel delivered lecture there
against Christianity. On the following
night he was whipped by mob, and
warned that if he ever again attempted
to teach infidelity in that community he
would be hanged.
The Tennessee Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church ately re
fused to admit G. Gilbert to the ministry,
although he had passed satisfactory
examination in theological studies, be-
cause he persisted in using tobacco. A
resolution was passed prohibiting appli
Cants who use tobacco from entering the
ministry in Tennessee.
The Methodist missions in Mexico, al
though only few years old, have be-
come quite strong. An illustrated paper
is published in the City of Mexico which
has 1000 subscribers, and the members
at Guiana uato are contributing toward
the support of the mission. Missions of
all denominations have been more sue
cessful in Mexico than in any other
country.
The State of Texas has just pur-
chased 400 acres of land, with valua-
bic buildings and improvements, near
Hampstead, for the State University for
Colored Youths. The price paid was
$4,000. The intention is to combine
the State University with the Agricult-
ural and Mechanical College, the same in
effect to be branch of the college at
Bryan.
The Professor of Metaphysics at
Madrid has written work laudatory of
the Inquisition, which, he declares, chad
it's authority direct from the Vicar of
Jesus Christ" "No Roman Catholic"
he says, can pronounce the name of the
holy tribunal of faith without reverently
bowling the head before an institution
which is essentially Catholic, and, as it
were, substantial image of the Church,
our mother"
The Congregational denomination
reports $500 churches, an increase of
1874 in three years. The larger part of
this increase belongs to the great West.
In the Middle and New England States
the increase has been only 81, while in
the West and South the increase has been
1877. The net increase of church mem
bers for the same period has been 26, 979
The annual expenses of the churches are
estimated at about 81 100000.
The Episcopal Society for the In
crease of the Ministry reports the re-
ceipts of the past year at SEQ, 575 and
the expenditures at 0,076. In an APP