The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The new musical course at Syracuse
University has forty students.
The New York Neus ridicules the
teaching of the languages in public
schools.
-Warren.S Street Chapel, Boston, has
maintained free evening school for
forty years.
The Southern Baptist Convention
has in China three stations-Canton,
Shanghai and Tuugchau.
The General Assembly of the Welsh
Calvinistic Methodist Church reports six
synods, 1876 ministers, 161 churches, and
1000 members.
There are now only two Roman
Catholics in the United States Senate
Herman and Spencer. Ex-senator Bogy
has been succeeded by Protestant.
The Anglican Church in Australia
and New Zealand claims $4,000 of the
total population (2,322, 503) of these col
onies. The church has sixteen dioceses.
There are 200 freshmen at Yale, 1872
at Princeton, 105 at Amherst, SO at Will
Jams, 70 at Dartmouth, So at Wesleyan,
so at the University of New York and
"a at Tufts.
Boston pays 81, 211, 7O7 annually in
salaries to the teachers of it's public
schools. 1t has 50,S19 pupils, and the
average per cent. of attendance is as
serted to be 92.8.
"A lady has just been appointed prin-
cipal of high-sChool in Delaware. From
which it is fair to assume that the motto
of the Trustees is, principals, not
men,"
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
entering Utah seven years ago, has now
church edifices at Salt Lake, Ogden,
Bingham, Provo, Nephi and Beaver, and
fifteen Sunday schools.
The Eoangeltcal MESSENGER says that
organized war on Methodsm has begun,
and she must be ready to meet an attack
along the whole line, defending her own
institutions and increasing her efficiency
in the field.
The new addition to the Harvard
College Library gives shelf room for
500, 600 books. The number of volumes
is now 1874, 900, and the permanent fund,
including the William Gray donation of
$4,000 for books alone, is $4,000, of
which $14, 600 is yearly spent in books.
College hazing is getting to be I'M
safe business. Lehigh pa University
recently expelled or suspended half a
dozen students who caught an unpro-
tected freshman, stripped him and tor
tured him sportively until he was made
dangerously i'll from cold and exposure.
The Roman Catholics of London
have appealed for subscriptions in behalf
of "the suffering Turks who have been
driven from their homes by the Rus
slams" They urge aid in the name of
Catholic Poland, and I" for the love of
the compassionate heart of Jesus"
The Alliance has proposal to head
off bores in prayermeetings 1t would
give tickets good for only SO many min
utes month to each member, and after
each brothers eXhortation or prayer have
the amount OF time he has occupied
punched of.
AT q Minnesota teachers meeting,
recently, one of the speakers said that
children in that State are sent to school
at too early an age, thus really making
nurseries of the primary school. 1t was
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should be seven instead of five years.
The Trustees of Dartmouth College
have voted to have three terms year,
the first to last until Thanksgiving, fol
lowed by three weeks vacation; the sec
ond tea weeks, followed by a vacation of
two weeks; and the third until the last
Thursday in June.
An illustration of the high regard in
which missionaries are held in China is
furnished by the fact that to them has
been intrusted all the money subscribed
by merchants in China from Singapore to
Pekin, with much of that given by the
Chinese, for relief in the terrible famine
in the northern districts.
The Friends of England are enter
ing very actively into foreign missionary
work. They support, by an annual out
lay of about 100000, three missions
one in Madagascar, one in Hoshungabad,
India, and one in Syria. There are many
fourishing schools in Madagascar, and
100 congregations. The preaching is al
most entirely by natives.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
in its foreign field POI foreign mission
aries and assistant, 246 native preach
ers, and 7S2 local preachers, exhorters
and teachers; making total working
force of 1885. The total of communi-
cants is 80, 465; of churches, 204; of Sun
day scholsrs, 1926; of day scholars,
9,158. The total of contributions was
last year over $4,000.
The Orthodox Friends have been
holding their yearly meeting at Rich
mond, Ind. Friends were present from
all parts of the United States and some
from London. The statistics reported
showed 391 births, 236 deaths, 1881
members, of whom $3.50 are males, 1876
recorded m nisters, and 1874 established
meetings. The Hicksite Friends held
their annual meeting at the same time
and place. There was but small at
tendance.
"A story is told of late benefaction
to the Church Extension Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church from an old |
man whom Bishop Ames had much in
terested in the work. He added a codi-
Gil to his will, giving $4,000 to the So
ciety, but failed to sign the codicil. The !
two ladies who were his heirs declined to