The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

VI SiNASA pAOPSAOJ III ANCN IOl ClGy.
-Girard College has educated 1900
boys and expended $2,500,00O in the
work.
Two hundred and sixty. four law stu
dents recently graduated at Columbia
College, New York
1t is estimated that the Pope's in
come during the present jubilee wear
will not be less than $3,000,000 cash in
hand.
The Rev. Father McElroy, who is
the Oldest Jesuit living, celebrated his
ninety-sixth birthday at Frederick, Md,
few days ago.
Says school authority: "The best
way to evoke truthfulness in boys is uni.
formly to believe them, even when ap-
pearances are against them" .,
With patient mind the course of duty run;
God nothing does, nor suffers to be done
But thou would'st do myself, if thou
couldst see
The end of all events as well as He.
In tifty-five years the Catholics in
Pennsylvania have increased in popula-
ton from $4,000 to 565, 200. Their
churches have increased from Is to 400,
tsllN VhOll pllCobo IlOlu ~ W OCO.
The Episcopal Convention of Penn
sylvania passed resolution instructing
its delegates to the next General Con
vention to oppose to the utmost any at
tempt to change the name of the church
The largest item of the receipts of
the American Bible Society the past year
is that of New York's contribution, which
amounts to $242, 38S. The second
largest sum, $4,000, is credited to
Pennsylvania.
The United Presbyterian Assembly
took the most advanced ground on tenn
perance-even forbidding members to
rent building or to sell grain to any
one engaged in the manufacture and sale
of the ardent"
The army of the children" is swell
ing with each passing year. The sew
enty-third annual meeting of the English
Sunday school Union, held in London,
reported 300, 600 teachers and 100000
scholars.
There are twelve Christian denomi-
nations in Richmond, Va, embracing
fifty two churches, 26, $40 members and
1872 scholars in their Sabbath Schools.
There was a gain in their church men,
bership during the last year of 1888.
The annual msetingo of the American
Sunday-school Union was held in St.
Louis last month. TIE summary of mis-
sionary work done through the year
showed 1877 schools organized, AZ, 1874
scholars collected, S,726 Bibles and
Testaments distributed, 12,064 families
visited.
There are in Maryland ,872 public
schools, instructing 146, 19S pupils, the
ing 1909 There are 1850 teachers
employed, whose salaries last year
amounted to $59S, 741.97. The total
amount of public school expenditures in
the State last year was $945, 362.41.
The Methodists are endeavoring to
revive the class-meeting system, which
has been in a decaying condition for the
past fifteen or twenty years. A conven-
ton Of class leaders was held recently at
Chicago, and another and larger one is
to be held on the Lake Bluff Camp
meeting will be discussed from various
points of view.
-Thirty-seven of the fifty-four men,
bers of the senior class of Dartmouth
have taught school during their college
course. Their average weight is 15S
pounds; average height 5 feet y inches;
average age 22.7 years. There is one
Mormon in the class; seven members
favor woman suffrage; and the total num-
Der of young ladies with whom CORE
spondence is now pending is 361.
The report of the Committee on
Evangelization to the Southern Presbyte-
rian Assembly states that eighteen pres
byteries have been doing something for
the colored people. The latter now have
twenty-one churches, three licentiates,
five ministers and six candidates for the
ministry, showing an increase of seven
churches, two ministers and five candi-
dates.
AT the public examination of teach
ers by Prof. Shour, last Saturday, in
bounding Missouri one of the would be
teachers said it was bounded on the north
by Minnesota and on the west by Ne
braska. One of the candidates who
wants to teach the young idea how to
shoot correctly said that the capital of
Austria is ST. Petersburg = GaUotin
North 1HiSsOurtan.
Among the graduates of the Auburn
Theological Seminary at the recent COM
mencement was Moses Aaron Hopkins,
the first colored student who has COM
pleted the course of study. He is a
graduate of Lincoln University, and ten
years ago could neither read nor write.
His graduating address was on "T'a
Problem of Race Reconciliation in
South" Mr.. Hopkins goes to North
DINA, where he will engage in preaCl
In the last fifty years fifty ministers
have Withdrawn from the Lutheran
Church to Join other denominations. OF
these fourteen went to the Protestant
Episcopal Church, twenty to the Presby-
terrain, three to the Methodist, five to the
Congregational and four to the Roman
Catholic. The Lutheran Church in the
same period has received forty-five min
listers from other denominations, of whom
twenty-five came from the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The Rev. A. A. Haines, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in Ham.