The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

MARY lana ana Nebraska pay male
and female teachers exactly the same
wages for the same work
In Wisconsin, last year, the public
schools had 2S2, 1856 pupils; the private
schools instructed 4,028. 81
The Rev. w. H. H Murray, of Bos-
ton, says: elf you want to hear min
ister's faults, get another minister to talk
about him" 80 .a- ---s
"A Boston Methodist congregation
closed their church rather than accept
the new pastor that had been sent to
them. ....-ft
Miss Georgiana Boutwell, daughter
of the ex-senator, is at the head of.an or
ganization which is establishing Nor
NAL School for colored teachers.
Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, has
preached his farewell sermon and intends
to pass his remaining days quietly at
home. He is eighty-three years of age
Rev. DR.. W. W. Patton, of Chicago,
founder and now ore of the editors of
the Chicago Ad0ance, has been elected
President of the Howard University
Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, of
New York city, has been consecrated
Bishop of the new Roman Catholic do
cese Of Peoria, III. ..
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island,
preached in Westminster Abbey on a re-
cent Sunday. 1t is said that he is the
first American Bishop invited to officiate
in the abbey. ....
The Baptist Missionary Union re-
ports its receipts for the year at $780,
146, against $165, 637 last year. The
debt of the union has been increased by
$17,225, amounting to $47,361.
The Indiana Methodist Conference
has admitted on trial two Cinnamon
Chen Ia Yang and TIE Jui-who were Or
dained as deacons, and appointed to the
North China Mission, at Picking.
Baltimore has 22S churches. Of
these 80 are Methodist E Episcopal, IS
Protestant Episcopal, % Roman Catholic,
IS Lutheran, II Presbyterian and Is
Baptist. The Methodist churches of all
branches number 10.
The Christian Standard thinks the
Disciples of Christ added from forty to
fifty thousand new members to their
churches in 1876. This denomination is
credited with a membership of from 300,-
600 to 500, 600.
The vicar of Great Tey, Essex, En-
gland, expelled from the Sunday school
at Easter eight girls who came under the
prohibition of wearing "collars, cuffs,
artificial flowers, feathers, brooches,
lockets or earrings"
Mrs. Gen. Sherman has received by
contributions from the Catholics of
America $230,000, which will be pre-
sented to the Pope on the tiftieth ami
versary of his elevation to the episco-
pate.
of the Yale faculty, Prof. Hoppin
is taxed on $34, $50; Prof. ]. d. Dana on
9,4SO, and Prof. Timothy Dwight on
SOL, 110. Ex-President Woolsey is taxed
on SAB, 321, while President Porter falls
below $25, 600.
AT the graduating exercises of the
High School in Hartford Conn, Whang
Kai Hah, one of the Chinese boys who
is being educated in this country, took
the second prize in defamation over six
American boys.
There are $500 Congregational
churches with 350,65S members, in the
United States, and 1913 ministers. In
1876, 20,0S4 were added on profession
of faith and ~, 400 by letter. The long
est pastorate was that of Dr. Leonard
Wilmington, which was siXty-one years.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church has 200, 6S1 members, the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 200,-
600, the Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church, $4,000. There are also about
10000 negroes in the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South and elsewhere, max
ing total of 666, 6S1.
Caroline Hastings, of Pelham, n
H, bequeathed 5000 to the town for the
establishment of high school, one of
the conditions being that the school
should be kept least six months of every
year, but at the last town meeting the
town voted-104 to S2-not to accept
the legacy.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in
Boston was organized by Rev. Jesse Lee
in 1891. There are now in the New En-
land States 1875, 900 members of the
church, 800 church buildings, 1900 min
listers. There are said to be 1870, 800 Sab
bath school scholars enjoying,tae privi-
lege of reading from libraries including
100000 books.
"A correspondent of the Nashville
american says that the Nashville Insti-
tute, the Central Tennessee College and
Fisk University send out every year from
$50 to 800 colored teachers, and that
these teachers, representing the average
ability of the race, are well spoken of
by County Superintendent everywhere
for their attachments and their ability to
govern.
The beautiful thing about Christian
ity is that it improves the individual
man. 1t elevatcs the masses through the
dissemination of personal virtues 1t
begins with one man and in one heart,
and reforms it, and then multiplies this
one result into thousands by the same
process. Religion means the cleansing
of what now is soiled, the Strengthening
of what is now crooked, the widening of
what is narrow and cramped. 1t means
progress, development, invention. Gold
en- Rule.
One of our religious exchanges, in
speaking of religion and insanity, says;
Every few men have religion enough to
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