The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

boston mas now seven special in
structors in music, at a cost of nearl1
$50, 900 Il year for salaries.
During the past year the American
Sunday School Union organized 1,12'
schools, embracing $3.50 teachers anC
40, 1874 scholars.
The school fund of Maine now
amounts to 1923, SOB. The State paic
for schools last year $431 AS, and tn,
towns raised $657, 705-$161 1884 more
than was required by law.
The Jews are prosperous in Austria
as the publication of eleven Jewish news
papers in that Kingdom proves. A
rabinical seminary is also to be opened
at Pesth in October.
The Jews have 1872 synagogues in
this country, of which New York has 3.
and Maine, the next larger number, %
in Pennsylvania there are IA, in Illinois
8, and Z each in California, Ohio, and
Vermont.
The revenues of the English episco.
pal bench amounts to $S05, 800, of which
the Archbishop of Canterbury receives
500, 900 and the Archbishop of York
and the Bishop Of London $50, each.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety has in commission 996 missionaries,
supplies over 1900 congregations and
missionary stations, has $4,000 Sunday
school scholars and has organized during
the past year seyenty-two churches.
Prof. A. Jaeger, Professor of He
brew in the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Greenville, S. c., has re-
signed his position and connected him
self with the Episcopal Church. Mr..
Jaeger was formerly an Israelite.
The Atlanta Methodist Adoocate
publishes table showing that Northern
Methodism is growing rapidly in the
South 1t has now in the Southern
States 391, 731 COMMITMENTS, gain of
II, 4S7 for 1876.
There are seventy eight teachers in
the public schools of Nashville, who,
with the Superintendent, draw an ag-
gregate of IS, 034 per month for salaries.
The lowest salary paid is $45, and the
highest $1SS.
The average of the present senior
class at Harvard is twenty-five years
seven and one-half months. The Oldest
man is thirty-one years two months old,
and the youngest seventeen years and
seven months.
Mr.. Yatabe, of Cornell, Glass '76, re-
Gently delivered an address in Japan on
" Buddhism" in which he ranked Chris
tianity as an inferior religion, and urged
upon his hearers higher and more spirit
ual religion than any now known. The
American missionaries present replied to
his arguments against Christianity.
"A member of the Southern Presby-
terrain Assembly said that In his opinion
dancing is an evil greater than an addic-
ton to drinking and horse racing. An
other member said that no benefit could
be derived from the work of the country
churches while the evil of dancing was
tolerated in the cities.
The second Sunday in June is "Chil-
dren's Day" throughout the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Collections are taken
on that day to increase the children's
fund, which is in charge of a Board of
Education, and on the 1st of June
amounted to $4,000. The object of the
fund is g to assist meritorious Sunday
school scholars in obtaining a more ad-
vanCed education"
From personal conference with Mr..
Moody, the editor of the Christian Union
judges that his view on the second COM
Ang of Christ is " the same that is held by
other Second Adventists, that is: He will
come in person TO reign on earth, that
His saints will share with him in this
manifestation and in glory, and after the
time symbolically represented as a
thousand years" will come the final
judgment and the end of all things"
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, at Chicago, recently, Rev. DR.. Van
Dyke said: g. do not believe that any
dying infant, baptized or unbaptized,
heather or Christian, is excluded from
the kingdom of heaven; l believe they
are all saved" The statement was APP
plauded, and renewed great applause
greeted his affirmation that this is the
doctrine of the whole Presbyterian
Church.
The union Of the two principal non
Episcopal Methodist bodies, by the action
of the representatives of both in the city
of Baltimore, is an important event in the
history Of these churches, and will I'M
questionably add greatly to their future
efficiency. The end was reached by a
compromise of subordinate tenets and
matters OF discipline, thus making the
Methodist Church, so-called, and the
Methodist Protestant Church the Union
Methodist Church of America.
"A young lady was teaching the
Hewitt School, but had some trouble
with one of the Directors, who dis.
charged her and assumed control of the
school himself. The first day his au.
thority was success, and he made a
young lady stand out on the floor; but
the next day his female pupils consoli-
dated themselves against him, bound
him hand and foot, took him down, and
gave him regular old fashioned thrash
ing YamhiN Reporter.
Interesting Description Of the Gorilla,