The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

ing but - common English" IN her schools.
The total amount of the public school
fund ready for apportionment in Indiana
is 5000, S2010.
Oxford University has an annual in.
come of S1,0OO,OOO, library of $40, 200
volumes and 1900 undergraduates.
The Reformed Episcopal Church re-
ceived four churches last year and the
Bishops confirmed 6S1 persons.
Some one has beautifully said: The
Old Testament is truth in its germs; the
New Testament is truth in its blossoms.
Columbia College has library of
1875 volumes. The students do not
appear to use it very much; more than
half do not use it at all.
The religious revivals in Baltimore,
in connection with the temperance move
ment, have closed nearly 100 places
where liquor was sold in that city
On the Both of April there were reg
istered in the New York public schools
116, 147 pupils, and there was in April
an average attendance of 105,S91.
The British and Foreign Bible Soci-
ety's income last year was 81, 034, $40,
and its expenditures 81, 062, 040. 1t is
sued 1870, 742 copies of the Scriptures.
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.
There is an unusually small number
of students in attendance at the Cana
dian colleges. The University of To-
ronto has but forty-eight, Trinity twenty
nine, and Knox eighty.
Temperance folks in Massachusetts
have formed great many " Red Ribbon
Clubs" A convention in Boston has re-
solved that religion is the proper ally of
temperance, and that hymns and prayers
ought to be used in temperance meetings.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Philadelphia took to Rome, as a special
offering to the Pope, 500, 600 subscribed
more than the Roman Catholics in all
England sent to Plus TX. on his jubilee
Prof. Swing, of Chicago, is of the
opinion that " the best studio for any
professional man is ten acres of ground
on the first three working-days of the
week" He would have the call for every
clergyman to be to &c church, a parson-
age, and the ten acres"
The English Wesleyans have been
increased by 5000 new members during
the past year. This is larger increase
than they have reported for some years
past. Their Foreign Mission Society re-
ports the addition of 5000 new members
at the mission stations.
The Sundays June "a and July
will be observed throughout the Presby-
terrain world as days of prayer for the
Pan-Presbyterian Conference, which
opens in Edinburgh, July 4. Numerous
delegates to the conference have already
sailed from New York.
The annual income of the Church of
England is $50 10000 The church has
10000 religious ediices, including 80
cathedrals, 10000 glebe-houses, 81 epis-
copal palaces and 100000 acres of
land, much of it in good condition for
tillage.
The Synod of the Reformed Presby-
terrain Church has adopted report stat
ing that {" the custom of the church is in
opposition to having other ministers
preach to our people,; and that they see
no reason, in the present state of the
church of Christ, to depart from the es-
tablished custom.
1t was stated at the Lutheran Baptist
Convention, which met at New Orleans
recently, that the Catholics were making
rapid progress in winning converts from
among the colored people. In the
southern tier of counties in Louisiana, it
was said there were 100 Catholic mis-
sioraries among the freedmen, and since
the close of the war 200 colored peo-
pie had been received in the Catholic
Church-a greater number than had
been gathered into all the Protestant
churches in the State in the same period.
Confession in the Greek Church is
ordinarily made but once a year-during
the first or last week of Lent. During
the previous six or eight days the peni-
tents attend mass twice day and fast
1t is not necessary TO acknowledge any
particular sin, as in the Catholic Church,
but simply to confess themselves guilty
of having broken one or more of the
Commandments. The rite is generally
performed at home, and priest attends
for the purpose. Children are expected
to confess, but not to fast.
The General Assembly of the Pres.
byterian Church South has squarely con.
demned all kinds of dancing One OF
the resolutions says: Some forms of
this amusement are more mischievous
than others, the round dance than the
square, the public hall than the private
party, but none of them are good, but
all are evil and should be discounte
nanced, and we affectionately urge all
our Christian parents not to send theil
children to dancing schools, where they
acquire fondness and an aptitude for
the dangerous amusement"
"A young girl, being on visit to a
Quaker, was prevailed on to accompany
him to the meeting. 1t happened to be
silent one, none of the brethren being
moved to utter syllable. When the
Quaker left the Westinghouse with his
young friend he asked: Glow didst
thou like the meetiDg?" To which she
pettishly replied; 81 like it! Why,
can see no sense in ito 90 and sit fol
whole hours together without speaking
wordt II is enouoh tn kill Satan hin,