The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Chicago Standards correspond
ence in one week recently reported over
LOO conversions and additions to the
Ghurches-all Baptist but one.
Capt. Curtiss has been elected Presi-
dent of the Norwich (Vt.) University.
He is on the retired list of the United
States Army
The National BoptiSt says that there
are more Baptist churches and members
in Philadelphia than in any other city
of the world save London"
Fisk University, Nashville, has $50
students. An effort will soon be made
TO hold colored teachers Institutes
throughout Tennessee.
Mrs. Lyman Bennett, of Troy, N.
Y, and Mr.. Daniel Fish, of Lansingburg,
N. Y, have each given $4,000 to SYRIA
cuse University.
In a late number of MacmiUan's
Magazine Mr.. Playfair advances the the
DRY that the education of the rich should
be more carefully looked after than that
of the poor, on the ground that poverty
is in itself school
Twenty-Five thousand converts are
the fruits of Widow Van Colts preach
ing during the past ten years, according
to her own statement. Their conversion
is genuine, and leads them to practice
Righteousness in their daily lives.
The Episcopal Church has, during
ten years, established itself in Colorado
and Wyoming; having now eighteen
churches and chapels, two boarding
schools in large, permanent buildings,
seventeen clergymen and 800 cCmmuni
cants.
All the books in the Minnesota
public schools during the next fifteen
years are to be bought of St. Paul
dealer, who contracts to sell them at
about half the present retail prices, and
submit them to revision about every five
years.
The Observer counts seven daily
prayer-meetings held in New York city
-Four are business mems meetings-one
in Fulton street, known all over the
world. 1t is now in it's twentieth year,
and has never been omitted on a single
secular day.
The next International Convention
of Young Mems Christian Associations
will be held, June 6, at Louisville, Ky.
instead OF st. Louis, as originally in
tended. The st. Louis Association found
1t lmpraCticable to make suitable ar
engagements for the entertainment of the
delegates.
The average attendance at the pub
lie schools of Iowa last year was 800, 315,
of total of SOP, $50 of school age.
There are 10,90S chool-houses in the
State, of which 10S are built of logs, the
aggregate value of all being $9,315, 1913
The salaries of teachers amounted to
$2,7S4 ,099.54.
Only seven of the Cardinals NOM
mated by the immediate predecessor of
Pope Plus lX. are now alive. OF the
fifty-four Cardinals five are octo-
genarians, sixteen septuagenarians, thir-
teen seXagenarians, eight quinquagenari
ans and two are under fifty. The oldest
is DeAngelis, Archbishop of Fermo, who
is month the Pope's senior and the
youngest, Cardinal Bonaparte, who is
forty-nine.
The Chautauqua series of educa-
sional meetings for 1877 will open Aug.
4 and close Aug. %. The reform
Council" and the Church Congress"
will last from Aug. to the following
Tuesday; the Sunday. School Assem-
bly," from Aug. to Aug. 81; the Sci
entific Conference" opening Aug. IS
three days before the adjournment of
the Sunday-School Assembly"-will
close Aug. %. The following speakers
are announced DR.. r. S. Storrs, DR.. w.
M. Taylor, Rev. Joseph Cook, DR..
Deems, John B. Cough, etc.
The Episcopalians have raised thus
far $50, 900 toward paying their mission
AIRY debt of $4,000. Of the 100000,
$4,000 was contributed in the Diocese
of Pennsylvania. The Methodists are
doing well IN their collections for their
enormous missionary debt. The Baptist
Home Mission Society informs its patrons
that it needs $4,000 more by the LIST of
April to meet its expenditures for the
year. The United Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions is, we are glad to
hear, improving the condition of its ex-
chequer.
About twenty years ago a somewhat
abusive opponent of the Baptists was
publishing book against them at the
office of the printer of the acts Of the
Mississippi Legislature. By some mad
vertence the sheets got mixed, and he
fore the confusion was detected several
copies of the acts were so bound as to
exhibit the following astonishing piece
of legislation, the grand result of thirty
years war against immersion: Be 1t
ep0cted By tile Senate and House Of Rep
?'esentGttoes Of tie State Of Mississippi,
That Dap means to put under the water
and TIE means to pull out"
The Congregationalists of the country
number $50, 658, in $500 churches, only
$50 of which have settled pastors; 20, S44
were admitted by profession last year,
which is more than for any year since
1859, and the net gain in membership is
1880; the gain in churches is Il, against
an average gain of So year for IS years;
but the increase of ministers does not
keep pace with that of churches, and the
proportion of ordinations without install
lation is waxing "worse and worse" The
Sunday schools have 415,092 scholars,
gain of 10, $50. The benevolent contri-