The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Roman Catholic cathedral lust
commenced in Hartford is to cost $780,
600.
The Pope is said to be greatly con-
cerned at the increase Of Professionalism
in Rome.
The students of Rutgers College,
New Jersey, are to wear Oxford hats with
black and scarlet tassels. Dab
"A branch of the Texas Mechanical
College is to be established for the bene-
fit of the colored people of the State. ~
A new church congregation is being
collected in New Haven, and one of the
conditions is that the members shall wear
their everyday clothes to the meetings.
Berlin, the capital of Prussia, has
ninety-four primary schools, which give
employment to S61 male teachers, 80
female teachers and 342 sewing mis-
tresseS.
of the religious papers in the United
States, forty are set down as Methodist,
twenty-eight Baptist, twenty-three Pres
byterian, twelve Episcopal, and six Con-
gregstional ...
The Rev. William H. LETTERS, of
Cleveland, Ohio, has been elected profess
sor III the Western Theological Seminary
the place of the Rev. DR.. Melanchthon
W. Jacobus, deceased.
The institution of the Free Church
of Scotland at Lovedale, Africa, reports
the conversion of thirty of the students
during the past year. Of these thirteen
were Europeans and seven teen natives.
Miss Frances E. Willard, who has
been successfully working in Boston
with Moody and Sankey, has been selected
to deliver the baccalaureate address to
the graduating class at Lasell Seminary,
Auburndale, Mass, in June.
-Hepworth Dixon tells of sect in
Moscow who regard Napoleon as the
Messiah. They believe that the French
Emperor is still alive, somewhere in Asia,
and that in due time he will return and
conquer the forces of the Gar.
Catholic papers say Catholicism has
been recently introduced into Norway,
and is making RAPID progress there.
There are now thirteen priests in that
country, and the Pope has appointed an
apostolic project to take charge of the
work
"A school law recently adopted in
Missouri requires school boards to give
the preference to colored teachers for
colored schools, and prohibits the en-
ployment of white teacher for colored
school when d competent colored one
can be had.
The Baptists are doing good work
in circulating the Scriptures in India.
The Baptist Mission press last year issued
$4,000 portions of the Bible. An edition
of st. Matthew in Mussulmani Bengal
is under way and Bengal commentary
on Acts is in forward state.
--Methodism, though making advances
in Germany, is meeting with good deal
of hostile criticism. In Bavaria the local
magistrates have enforced law which
prohibits the Methodists from holding
devotional services. They are only al
lowed to have sermons or addresses.
The Trustees of the Iowa Agricult-
ural College have added kitchen to that
institution and placedit under the charge
of the teacher of domestic economy
This year each young lady in the junior
class will have to spend one morning in
each week in the kitchen for practical
instruction.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
supports in its foreign missionary work
A stations, 10 of which are in Western
Africa, 10 in China, f in Japan, 8 in
Hayti, l in Greece, and 1 in Palestine.
The number of missionaries and other
laborers employed is Ill, of whom are
Missionary Bishops.
The Presbyterian Board of Publica-
ton has missionary fund to which the
churches annually contribute. This fund
is used to distribute Christian literature
in needy fields. During the past year
the board distributed 106,474 volumes
and 4,25O,000 pages of tracts. Over
1900 families were reached in this way,
and 2, 900 Sabbath schools visited, and 10
Sabbath schools were organized in desti-
tute places, u
The Female Medical College of St.
Petersburg has now 470 pils--seventy-
three Jewesses, nineteen Roman Catho.
lie Poles and eleven Protestant Poles;
the rest belong to the Greek Church.
Pupils for this college come from all the
Russian Governments. They belong to
the middle Glass, and are generally be-
tween twenty and twenty-five. Very few
are above thirty. Seventy eight of those
now studying are married. The course
lasts for five years, and the pupils have
to undergo a regular routine of study and
to pass many examinations.
Bishop Haven says that in Liberia
the Baptist churches that have depended
on themselves have succeeded great
deal better than the Methodist, Presby-
terrain or Episcopal churches which have
depended on help from abroad.
SCOTCH HYMN.
There are blossoms that haze budded,
Been blighted i the cold,
An lammes that hae persisted,
Because they left the fold.
But cover We aneath His wings
Wha died upon the tree,
AN gathers in His bosom
Helpless weans like you and me.
In the warld there's tribulation,
In the warld there is woe;
But the warld it is bonnie,
For our Father made it so.
Then brighten up your armor,
An be happy as We gang,
Though your sky be often clouded,
1t Wilma be for lang.
Now that Moody and Sankey have