The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


of Popes have been held during this
century.
North Carolina has 1000 white
teachers and ST. colored ones.
The oldest man who graduates at
Harvard this year is thirty-one and the
youngest eighteen and q half years old.
An Industrial College for Negroes is
to be established in Richmond, Va, the
intention being to teach trades of various
kinds.
Rev. S. IrenRus Prime has gone to
Europe as delegate to the Presbyterian
Council at Edinburgh and to councils on
the Continent.
The Unitarian festival for 1877 is to
be held in the Music Hail, Boston, May
81. George William Curtis will preside.
Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, has
bishop of Baltimore, with the right of
succession. ..'
A list of clergymen who have fallen
from grace within a year in the United
States is published in the JeaojSh Times
The number of convictions for crime is
given at forty.
1t is said that man in Boston who
was converted under the preaching of
Mr.. Moody has made restitution of
$500 which he stole several years ago.
The Rochester Baptist Theological
Seminary, though prosperous in every
other respect, is in financial straits.
There is deficiency of between 81, 600
and $4,000 in the current expenses.
The thirty-second annual meeting of
the Young Mems Christian Association
was recently held in London. 1t was
stated that there were now 217 of these
associations in England,
After all said by the press it is prob
able that graduates of Yale do really ac-
quire some mental knowledge. Lots of
them use tirst-rate grammar in their writ
ten offers to do editorial work on this
paper for seven dollars per week.-De-
tr0it Free Press.
The Western Christian Adgocdte
thinks that " the great movement in the
Methodist world of an economical nature
should be the liquidation. of all church
debts. And this should be accompanied
by general purpose on the part of all
the preachers and all the people not to
get into debt again"
Rev. Father Francis Xavier Tschen-
hens died in Baltimore recently, in the
seventy sixth year of his age. The de-
ceased was the founder of the Redemp-
tOrist Order in America He was a
native of Wurtemburg, Germany, and
first came to America in 1882 to establish
missions.
-Ebers, the well-known German
Psychologist, gives different explana-
ton of the meaning of the name Moses
than that commonly received. He SAYS
that instead of being derived from two
words which signify rescued from the
water" it is the very common Egyptian
word mes or mesu, meaning child" or
"boy."
The receipts Of the American Tract
Society for the past year were $40, 296.
Expenditures, SAL, 119. In the same
period 209 colporteurs labored in thirty
States, addressed 6,937 meetings, made
1872, 1888 family visits, and prayed with
9S,37S families. During the past thirty
six years over IL, 000,0 600 of volumes have
been distributed.
The annual report of the American
Bible Society shows the receipts for the
year to be $543, $40, including 1927, 92S
for publications, $1SS,013 from legacies
and SOL ,274 from donations. The ex-
penditures nearly equaled the receipts.
During the year 721 1876 Bibles were is
sued at home and 259, $50 abroad, max
ing total of SS1 ,056.
The Christian at Work speaks a
good word in behalf of ministerial hol-
idays," and concludes: "Let no man
grudge the diligent pastor his recreation;
and if it should be that he goes to Eu-
rope, let his people be all the more CRATE
full, for the profting shall appear to them
in coming days"
1t is remarkable that Congregations
alism, though of New England origin,
has its most populous churches out of
New England. The two largest. in point
of numbers, are the Plymouth of Brook
Ign, which has 1896 members, and the
First, of Chicago, which has 1877. The
Western and Southern churches have
151 i, 1863 members; those of New England,
1876, 4S9.
In the Presbyterian Church of the
United States there are 4, 741 ministers; of
these 300 are engaged in strictly pas
toral work; 35S are evangelists, preach
ing as they find opportunity; 400 have
retired from the active duty of the min
istry, and $50 are without charge, while
the remaining G31 are engaged as profess
sors, Chaplains, superintendent, agents,
secretaries and editors.
The Chinese students have made
wonderful progress since the establish
ment of the educational headquarters at
Hartford. They show good abilities to
contend with American students. One
Chinese scholar has taken the second
prize for defamation in the Hartford
High School; and now Lee Kwai Pau
takes the first prize for penmanship in
the West Middle public school at Hart
ford. .....
The Cardinals red hat is something
more than mere article of costume,
made according to an ancient model. In
the General Council held by Innocent
", 1915, it was decreed that hence
forth the Cardinals, as a special distinc-
ton of honor, should wear red hat, of
the now well known form, the color be-
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