The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

year.
The College of the City of New
York opened with an Introductory class
of 1876 students.
-Four ladies are included in the
freshman class of Colby University,
Maine, this year.
There are twelve pairs of sisters in
the boarding department of the Pitts
burgh Female College.
The Presby terians announce that
there were fifty conversions at their
camp-meeting in Texas.
The school population of California
is 2OO,667, and the school-fund appor-
tionment is 1881 per scholar.
The general convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church in this country
is to be held in Boston, Oct. 3.
The sophomores of Dartmouth Col
lege have decided to allow the freshmen
to wear tall hats and to carry canes this
fall.
The Cincinnati Methodist Confer
ence has the tallest Methodist preacher
in the United States He measures six
feet seven inches.
"A nine-inch telescope, which is to
cost 81 900, is being made for the Prince
ton College at the Cambridge astronom-
ical instrument factory.
"A new grammar school-house Just
completed in Providence, r. l., strange
as it may seem, cost 1000 less than
was appropriated for it.
The colleges and universities this
year have conferred the degree of D. D.
on about sixty persons, which is marked
decrease from previous years.
In one of the English Church papers
clergyman advertises harvest ser
mon" in which special reference is made
" to the Colorado insect, the war;" etc.
The American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society announces its intention to
open new school at Natchez, Miss, for
the education of colored preachers and
teachers.
There are 1913 churches in Rome, of
which 355 are Catholic, fourteen Prot
estant, and four Jewish. There is one
Protestant church to every 10000 of the
population.
There are in the United States and
Canada 800 Young Mems Christian AS
sociations, with a membership of 100, 900
and owning property to the extent of
$25, 100000.
The "Free Thinkers Association of
Central and Western New York." recent
ly organized at Walcott, has a short
creed, which we give in full: "Univers-
al mental liberty"
The belief that baptism ought to be
administered by immersion, with the face
downward, has spread among the South
ern negroes, and in Raleigh, recently,
tifty-one chose that mode.
In no part of the country has the
Protestant Episcopal Church advanced
more rapidly than in New York State.
In 1885 there were but five clergymen in
this State; now there are TIC in the five
dioceses, with 6,644 communicates.
The Rev.ID. N. Bentley, of Norwich,
Conn, who is ninety-two years old has
preached nearly seventy-five years, hav-
ing married 500 couples and officiated at
5000 funerals, but has never received
any remuneration for preaching or bury
ing the dead.
The Williams College trustees have
decided upon change in the college
laws in regard to passing the examina-
tions at the end of the college course,
and henccforth greater strictness will be
employed, and those who are unable to
pass will be prevented from graduating.
The Rev. DR.. Fraser, Bishop of Man
chester, England, announced. few days
ago to deputation visiting him that
Gin future he should neither ordain anv
candidate nor promote to the cure of
souls any clergymen who acknowledged
that he held the doctrine of sacramental
confession or encouraged habitual con-
fession."
Mr.. Moody has decided to devote
himself next winter to the salvation of
New England. He says: alt has been
laid on my heart that in this district was
the place for labor the coming winter
but not until within day or two, after
prayer, have / felt that could decide
upon this field"
High ritual is on the increase in Lon
don. Thirty-one churches now celebrate
daily communion, against eleven last
year; $40 have surpliced choirs, against
ia; 35 have eucharistic vestments,
against IA; 80 display candles on the
altar, and since 1867 the use of incense
has been extended from three churches
to sixteen.
Two Seventh-Day Baptists were re-
Gently fined four dollars each in a town
in Central Pennsylvania for working on
Sunday. They refused to pay, and were
sent to Jail for four days. They claim
that the State law of 1894 is unconstitu-
tional, and that it is opposed to any Sab
bath at all, since it abolishes the Sabbath
of Scripture and ordains new one,
which is really no Sabbath.
james Newly, negro newsboy, who
went abroad from New London, Conn,
with Moody and Sankey, studied for the
Church of England ministry at London,
passed an examination before the Bish-
ops which prompted the Bishop of London
to say: " / would to God all our clergy
men were like this young man," and has
since sailed for Africa to be assistant to
Bishop Crowther.
AT the recent session in Baltimore of
the German Synod of the East Reformed
Church of the United States statistics
were read showing that the synod has 5
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