The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

was recently eonsecrated Bishop of Cap,
Palmas, Africa, at Alexandria, Va.
The kindergarten system has beer
introduced in the Government schools
for girls in China.
The United Presbyterian Church o.
Scotland raised last year $500, 600 fol
missionary ana benevolent purposes.
Oxford University has an annual in
come of 81 100000, library of $4,000
volumes, and 300 undergraduates.
In sixteen years the number of Bap
fist churches in Great Britain has in
creased from 1888 to 2,671, and the
membership has doubled.
Father Chiniquy announces that
during the past few weeks not less
than 900" French Canadians have left
the Roman Catholic Church and become
Protestants.
AT the last Harvard examination As
per cent. failed in algebra and SO pei
cent. in English composition, though but
IL per cent. were lacking in Greek gram.
mar.
Our Lord God doth like a printer
who setteth the letters backward; we
see and feel we'll the setting, but we
shall read the print yonder in the life to
come Martin Luther.
The Brooklyn Board of Education
has cut down expenses $13, 900 per annum
by Diminishing all the music teachers, and
imposing their duties on the class teach
ers.
The collegiate Reformed Dutch
clergy of New York city are called for
life, with a salary of $1,000 year, and
an annuity of $4,000 if obliged to leave
through i'll health or old age.
Six universities in Germany have
more than /, 900 students each. Leipzig
and Berlin take the lead, having respect
lively 2,730 and 1877. In the twenty
one universities of the country there are
now II, 143 students and / 1927 teachers.
The Moody and Sankey revival in
Boston is said to give promise of being
the most remarkable in the experience
of the revivalists. Conversions are
numerous, and a majority of the city
pastors are earnestly helping in the meet
ings.
Statistics of Methodist Episcopal
Sunday schools: Present number, 49,
370-increase during the year, 213; Of
tiCers and teachers, 200, 623-increase,
300; scholars, /, AL ,950-increase, 43,-
OPS; conversions, 90, 524-increase, 49,
392.
President Gilman, of John Hopkins
University, says that three bylaws
should be passed-that no waste of time
should be allowed within its walls, that
there should be no disparagement of any
branch of learning, and that character is
before knowledge.
The United Presbyterian Church,
at Salem, N. Y, was organized in
Ireland in 1851. 1t afterward came
to this country in body, and has never
been reorganized. 1t is claimed to be
the Oldest congregation in the United
Presbyterian Church.
1t was very suggestive incident at
the conservation of Trinity Church at
Boston, when Edward Everett Hale,
James Freeman Clarke, Rufus Ellis and
other Unitarian clergyman received the
communion from the hands of the Epis-
copal Bishops.
Among the graduates of Dartmouth
there have been 81 Judges, Is United
States Senators, 81 Congressman, 2
Cabinet officers, foreign Ambassadors,
l Postmaster General, IA Governors of
States, l Governor of a Territory, %
college Presidents, and "A professors in
other colleges.
Professionalism, as the result of ten
or fifteen years work in Mexico, has 1876
Protestant congregations and churches,
worth CT 90 do,
night schools, 5 orphanages, 2 theo-
logical seminaries, religious periodicals
and 1873 agents. The yearly expendi-
lures are 100000.
President Eliot, of Harvard College,
is in favor of taxing the parents of chill
dren who go to high schools to pay a
certain proportion of the cost of main
tanning them. He would have grammar
schools for the poor and open the high
schools to all who could not afford to
pay, but he would impose tax of $40
or $50 year upon the children of
wealthy parents.
In regard to evangelical work on
the continent of Europe, it is stated that
France has 300 evangelical preaching
stations, Italy and Spain 200, with 10, 900
communicates, and Belgium 2. The
Waldensian Church has so preaching
stations, 13, 800 hearers, 2,26S members,
l ,493 children in its Sabbath schools, and
contributes about $4,000 annually to
benevolent objects.
The Presbyterian Church at River
Bend, Dakota, has 121 members, who
are full biooded Dakota Indians, as also
are the elders and minister. Twenty
years ago, with one or two exceptions,
they were all heather, living and dress
ing like other heather. Now they and
their families constitute the major part
of population of about 800 souls who
have settled on the Big Sioux within the
last eight years.
The South Carolina Conference of
the African M. E. Church reports 200
ministers. The report of the conference
says the examination of the ministers
who are divided into classes of first,
second, third and fourth years, shows a
marked improvement in all the studies"
There is also ca marked improvement
in their manners ard carriage, and digni.
fed mien," and " the taste displayed in
their dress proclaims advancement Of
thought and development of mind"
There has hprn % n ranid incraoSon of