The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Inv NV FIauClS d. Clerc, ID. ~.
has resigned the rectorship OF Burlington
College, N j.
In 600 Sunday-schools of Vermont
last year there were about 4, 600 CONVEX
sions.
There are now $50 congregations,
and 1000 children attend their schools,
in the Holy Land.
Rev, John Wiley, said to be the old
est ordained minister of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, died at Baltimore re-
Gently
Smith College, Northampton, Mass,
is carrying out the idea of organizing, in
different cottages, separate families of
students.
President Eliot says that the ques-
ton OF admitting women to Harvard has
never even been discussed by the fac
ulty.
There are said to be seventy Catho-
lie negroes in the College of the Propa-
CATION in Rome, training for missionary
work in Africa.
The new Trinity Episcopal Church
at Boston cost $3.50, 900, and is said to
be the most elaborate church edfice in
New England. 1t is free from debt.
Archbishop Blanchet, of Oregon, is
the Oldest Catholic priest in the United
States, being now over eighty years of
age, but still active in ecclesiastical du-
ties.
1t is announced that the conference
between the Lutherans and Methodist
Protestants of Georgia, to arrange terms
OF union, has come to satisfactory con-
Clusion.
In the theological seminaries of the
Presbyterian Church there were last
year 467 students. OF this number $50
were educated in the colleges of the de-
nomination, the majority having attend
ed the schools of other churches.
The Missouri party of Lutherans,
who are extremely High Church, have
564 pastors and 207, 1853 communicates.
In 1S4S they had only 81 pastors and
6,92S members. They have 635 schools,
with $4,000 scholars.
Both the State and the Free Church
Presbyteries of Edinburgh have had be-
fore them for discussion the prevalence
of intemperance in Scotland The Free
Church Presbytery has issued a pastoral
address on the sub Jet.
All former efforts to bring about a
union of American Lutherans having
failed utterly, it is now proposed to in
Vlte all to come together on the platform
upon which the General Synod was Or
gained in 1920.
Of all the pastors in the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the
South, only one is promised as much as
$1,000 year salary. Three are prom.
ised $500 each, one $3.50, and the others
range from $500 down to $500, the gen
eral average being $535.
"A minister of Boston, referring to
the Moody and Sankey meetings in that
city, stated that one-third of all the inf
deity in the United States is in New En-
gland, one-third of all that is in New
England IS in Massachusetts, and one
third OF that in Massachusetts is in Bos-
ton.
-Congregationalism has attained suf-
ficient strength in the South to make
necessary several conferences. Alabama
forms one. The churches in Tennessee
and Georgia form the Central and South
ern Conferences. The membership of
these churches is gathered chiefly from
among the freedmen.
Mrs. Cady Stanton relates how she
with other ladies educated young man
for the Presbyterian ministry, had given
him new suit, a beaver hat, and all the
; etceteras pertaining to the ministerial
garb, and, OF course, were all agog to
near their protege preach. Imagine
their dismay and disgust when the young
man announced the text "Let your
women keep silence in the churches, for
1t is not permitted unto them to speak"
AT "A meeting of Universalist minis
tiers in Boston recently the revival move
ment was discussed, and resolutions
were passed commenting REVEALS, and
discovering in the recent evangelical re-
vival movement tokens that the time is
not far away when Unversalists will be
invited, and will accept the invitation,
"to join in work in which both are
constrained by the love of Christ"
The Catholic Church has missions at
about forty Indian agencies in the United
States, only eight of which, however, are
assigned to Catholic missionaries BY the
Government, the rest being assigned to
the various Protestant denominations.
A Catholic commissioner, Gen. Charles
Ewing, has been established at Wash
ington by the Archbishop of Baltimore,
acting in concert with the Bishops of the
United States. His duty is to protect
the rights of Catholic Indians.
According to the last annual report
of the State School Superintendent of
Wisconsin the total value of the public
school property in Wisconsin is valued
at S4,979, 1859. The total amount ex-
pended in the public school service dur
ing the past year was $2,066,375. In
round numbers the sum of $4,000, 600 is
invested in school buildings, sites and
apparatus, and the sum of over So, 0OO,-
600 is annually expended for teachers
wages, building and repairing apparatus,
libraries, etc.
DIR. Benoni Blake, a Jewish rabbi,
traces in the Christian at Work the
changes in Judaism, and shows the diff
ference between the reformed and ortho-
doX Jews. He says neither party has
preserved Judaism as it originally was,
but has reformedit, the latter nv increae