The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Il. IT, University.
Since 1867 the English Baptists have
formed 260 new churches, and the in
crease of members has been 55,727.
The collections for benevolent pur-
poses in St. Paul's n E. Church, New
York, last conference year, amounted to
nearly fifteen thousand dollars.
In the United States there are al
ready sixty. lone Episcopal Bishops, and
the average number of communicates to
a diocese is less than 4, 800. -
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania,
boasts the lowest average yearly eXpend-
ture per student $3.50 of any college
il the country.
The sustentation fund of the Presby-
erian Church of England yields suffl-
cient to pay the pastors an annual salary
of one thousand dollars each.
The Bishop of Chichester, England,
has refused to consecrate new church
within his diocese, on account of the
Romish ritual and adornments
adopted" .t'
The Board of Education of Chicago
is endeayoring to force book publishers
into allowing pupils in the public schools
discount of 80 per cent. from retail
prices.
The last ineligible words spoken
by the late DR.. Muhlenberg were:
Lower not the flag az halfmast, but
place it at the top as an emblem of my
victory over sin aid death"
Forty Roman Catholic schools have
recently been opened in Georgia, Ala
bama, and Louisiana, at which colored
children which wish to be educated are
to receive education free.
The Presbytery of Buffalo at re-
cent meeting licensed Henry Silverheels,
a Seneca Indian, nearly sixty years old,
to preach the Gospel. He has long sus-
tanned high character as Christian.
Medical diplomas were recently
awarded to twelve graduates of the
Woman's Medical College of the New
York Infirmary, and to nine graduates of
the New York Medical College and Hos
pital for Women. -..
The Seniors of Harvard are writing a
memoir. Each member of the class is to
write an autobiography, which is to re-
main with the Secretary until no member
survives, and is then to be placed in the
college library.
1t is probably the last place one
would have looked for it, but one of the
largest Sunday schools in the world is at
Aintab, in India, and numbers about
1880 pupils. And there is world of
encouragement for the future of India in
the fact
Virginia pays $4,000 yearly to the
colored school at Hampton, and Georgia
$4,000 to help the Atlanta University,
and the graduates of the former of these
institutions receive as much as $50, 900
yearly as teachers salaries.
Mr.. Moody insists that religious
meeting should begin and end promptly,
ard it had better be fifteen minutes too
short than ten too long. He does not
believe in dilatory religion, and takes no
stock in the diluted article, either.
The system of voluntary recitations
for the senior class at Harvard, which
was recently instituted by the faculty as
an experiment, is likely not to be per-
manently adopted, as it has been so
abused by the class of N as to make it
failure.
The American Bible Society received
during the last year $543, 1885, of
which $1SS,000 were legacies. This in
come is $4,000 greater than that of
1875. The American Tract Society dur
ing the same period received SAC, 900, of
which 100000 were lcgacies.
An American girl, Miss Agatha Ives,
has been awarded two gold medals in
the celebrated seminary of nuns, in
Rome, one for superior knowledge in
Eastern dialects and languages, and the
other for the best composition in the liv-
ing tongues. ...
An appeal appears in the Christian
Register (Unitarian) for money to aid the
African Methodist Episcopal Church in
the South 1t is not generally known
that the Unitarian Association has been
aiding this church for years, yet this is
the fact. f.f
The Church Union says "Two
steamboats, are to be fastened together,
stern to stern, in San Francisco Bay, for
a trial of power. We never saw the
tHluS IIlcu WIFI SledulDOdlS, out we nave
seen it tried with churches many time.
They take two churches of different de-
nominations and place them stern to stern
in a Western village. Then they whip
up. Each pulls with forty-yoke power.
They fill the whole region with their din,
and the end is, neither goes forward peg
They just neutralize each other-that's
all" .nr -
In one of the towns of Middlesex
County, in this State, a week or ten days
ago., the School Committee, by an unani-
nous vote, informed the Principal of the
High School that his services were no
longer desired. No fault was found with
his abilities as a teacher, or his personal
character or influence. The only cause
assigned for his dsmission was the lack
of order in the school. Whereupon the
pupils of the discharged master, very
sensibly considering that they were most
at fault, promptly drew up and signed a
compact that they would thenceforth
conduct themselves as became ladies and
gentlemen, and honorably and faithfully
do all in their power to assist their in
structor in securing the order necessary
to a successful school. On receiving