The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

girls. Their cost is not to exceed 81, 600.
-Ritualism is on the increase in Lon
don. Eucharistic vestments are now worn
in forty churches in that city.
Mrs. Van Colt counts up %, 600 con-
verts as the result of her labors as a
local preacher for the past nine years.
Rev. DR.. Houghton has been pastor
of the Little Church Around the Cor
ner," in New York, for twenty-seven
years.
"A National Reform Convention will
be held in Chicago, April 10 and II, in
the interest of an amendment to the Con-
stitution recognizing God. d
The receipts of the Reformed Dutch
Board of Foreign Missions for the year
down to March 1 were $50, 1872, against
$34, 1876 for the same period last year.
The Pope said recently: england,
though Protestant, shows far more re-
spect toward Catholicism than many
countries which call themselves Cath
Ollie"
The Superintendent of Public In
struction of Iowa has decided that male
teachers in the public schools must not
be under nineteen years of age, and fe-
male teachers seventeen years.
The Methodist and Methodist Prot
estant Churches will hold general con-
ventions in Baltimore, beginning May
II. 1t is expected that the union of the
two churches will then he consummated
Plans have been perfected for the
tr,n ,hn - Ill H.,
the Catholics, funds for the same having
been bequeathed by the late Edward
Creighton.
"A young lady who died at Toledo, a
few days ago, was Vassar's brightest
graduate. She carried off three prizes
in the class of 1875, and destroyed her
health in doing it.
In Holland Sunday schools have in
creased from 430, in 1871, to 800, in 1876;
the number of teachers from sol to
2, LAO, and the register of scholars from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The next graduating class at Bow
dom College will number forty. 1t
started with about eighty members, and
was the largest class when entering that
the college had had for years.
The Methodist Women's Foreign
Missionary Society received $12, 377 last
year and expended $9,969 There are
now 2S5 auxiliary societies, with mem
bership of $500. Mrs. Rev. DR.. Patten
is President for the ensuing year
-Thirty-two missionary societies have
stations in China, Japan and Siam. They
employ 249 ordained missionaries and
twenty-five medical missionaries. The
American societies have in China 1870
workers out of 274.
-Thirty-nine clergymen united with
the Young Mems Christian Association
in Montreal in inviting Moody and San
key there when they have finished their
work in Boston, where they will proba-
bly, remain until June.
Applicants for scholarships in Dart
mouth College hereafter must submit to
the faculty an exhibit of their income
and expenses during the preceding year,
and pledge themselves not to eXpend any
money for liquor, tobacco, billiard play
ing or dancing while receiving aid from
the college.
Miss Mitchell, teacher of the First
Grammar Grade, Washington School,
Pittsburgh, has established system OF
discussion upon the news and topics of
the day amongher scholars. The pupils
support a paper called the Bulletin,
which is issued from a black board, and
which contains a synopsis of the Pitts.
burgh papers of that day.
The Northern and Southern Presby.
terrain Assemblies meet on the same day
this year, viz: May 1.-THE Northern al
Chicago, the Southern at New Orleans
Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, of Brooklyn
will preach the sermon at Chicago, and
Dr. B. NJ. Smith, of Richmond, will per.
form the same service for the Southern
Assembly at New Orleans.
In the Harvard examinations fol-
women the first or preliminary certifi.
Gates are given to those young women
not less than seventeen years of age who
pass a successful examination in regu.
larly prescribed course of study. The
second or advanced certificate is granted
to those young women who, having at
tanned the age of eighteen years, have
passed the preliminary examination, and
also thorough examination in specia
elective studies in particular branches.
Among the important educational
items of the day we read that "Trinity
College has finally given up boating fol
this year, and will devote its energies tc
base ball" Air and exercise are essen
tial to health and the best mental activi
ty, but base ball may become as detri
mental to honest headwork as the mos
absurd boating on the brain. But there
is no telling what wonders in science
may be accomplished when a whole col
lege resolves for this year to " devote its
energies to base ball. IN. Y Observer
"A correspondent of the Eoangelis
urges as reason for reducing the repre-
sentation in the Presbyterian Genera
Assembly the great difficulty experienced
in providing homes for the commission
ers. The difficulty increases continually
He says Committees of entertain
ment do not make public cutlery of thu
severity of the service whichis laid upoI
them, but it cannot and does not escap,
observation. Ask those of Cleveland o
Brooklyn of the labor that was laid on
to secure temporary homes for commits
sioners, and of the large expense in
Cured for securing mercenary hospital