The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Pennsylvania has 172 Young Mems
Christian Associations.
The name of DR.. Edward Eggleston's
Church in Brooklyn is the Church of
Christian Endeavor." ~
The test of mans mental force is
not what he knows, but what, once well
learned, he has not forgotten.
Roanoke College, at Salem, Va, has
TT students, among whom are eight
Choctaws from the Indian Territory.
The ethereal maidens of Vassar Col
lege consume 1900 pounds of lamb and
5000 pounds of beef every week.
The, Massachusetts Universalst Con-
vention voted down a resolution favor
ing a recognition of God in the Constitu-
ton, 46 to IA. j. '1la.' % N.<.
The New Hampshire State Agricult-
ural College is now run for the benefit
of eight students. None have entered
this year. ,.-
OF the members and practitioners of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, one in
every nineteen belongs to foreign popu-
lations not using the English tongue
The Church of Jesus, in Mexico, a
branch of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, is growing rapidly. 1t has
twenty-one congregations in one State,
that of Morelos.
No student in Bowdoin School of
Science is allowed to take more than two
studies, as the faculty believe that all
the working time can be more profitably
spent in this way than upon a larger
number,
The Christian Standard utters an
earnest prayer for some men to come
out and help keep the altar.fres burning,
and save Methodism from dying with
propriety, responsibility, culture and
GOODNESS" I
"A new feature has been introduced
this year into the elective system at Yale,
two purely optional courses in meta
physics and mineralogy, which have no
effect OH standing, having been offered
to the seniors.
The Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has directed that
the instruction given in the department
of arts and the Towne Scientific School
on certain subjects shall hereafter be
open to pupils of both sexes.
A religious exchange says: eve be-
lieve that if the majority of preachers
would spend more time and give more
thought to one sermon, and often re-
write and repeat their best efforts, they
would greatly add to the power of their
sermonizing."
The introduction of sewing into one
of the public schools of Cambridge, Mass,
as an experiment will take place at once.
1t is not proposed to introduce orna.
mental work, but simply to teach the
children how to make their own garments,
in case of need.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions is gradually increasing its
missionary staff. In 1875 it had S15 mis-.
sionaries and teachers, in 1876, 1914, and
in 1877, 901. The number of American
missionaries, however, is decreasing. In
1875 there were 1856; in 1876, 1856; in
1877, 1870.
MIR. Spurgeon was preaching on the
subject of Confession" Having
searched the Bible all the way through"
said he, 81 can only find that one man
was JudaS Tscoriot and Un, viii remem @'
ber NV brethren that ;omed;otoir ho
had coIfesSed he uont ont anS bunn
b;rosoIfn .
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
IN Its foreign field 2O1 foreign mission
ares ana assistants, 24o native preach
ers, and 'oS local preachers, exhorters,
ana teachers; making TOTAL working
Iorce vi m 200 me lotai Vi comm Nill
San'e 10 S1'fo' 90 VI CIV Snuienes; Sof' Vi Gun
Jay sch0nars' 90, Slo' Vi uay scnoiars'
SS'Ioo' Inc toIaI Oh Contributions was
las' year over $orooo'
The long'expected paragraph En-
gllsh Bible, prepared by Canon Glrdle-
ston, is passing through the press of the
British and Foreign Bible Society. The
prose portions are Photographed according
to the sense. The poetic parts are ar
ranged in the same manner as modern
poetry. The Psalms are divided into
strophes as stanzas, and where they are
acrostlc or alphabetical the fact is indl-
Gated by the Hebrew initials. a
The division of the dioceses is now