The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

is increasing skiold every ten years.
The Congregationalists figure I'D
1886 additions to their churches during
May.
In the Presbyterian Church of the
United States there are 4,741 ministers.
The Reformed Dutch Church of New
Utrecht, L. l., will celebrate its 2OOth
anniversary this year.
There are AZ, 120pupils in the Chicago
schools, the average daily attendance be-
ing 37,04S.S.
Harvard presents in the list of stud
les for the year 1S77-S, 1O7 different
electives.
There will be no Glass Day at Har-
ward this year, in consequence of dissen-
slons among the college societies.
Nobody is hereafter to be admitted
to Rev. DR.. Halls church in New York
after the sermon has begun.
The Boston School Board refuse to
appoint or recommission female teachers
who are expected to marry soon.
Not one of the essays handed in this
year at Harvard to compete for the Bow
dom prize was deemed entitled to be re-
warded.
The English revisers of the New
Testament have reached the Goth chap
ter of the Book of Revelations.
The Chiefs of the Cherokee, Della
ware and Seminole Indians are all mem
bers of Baptist Churches.
The British and Foreign Bible Soci-
ETY. received last year from gifts, sales,
etc, f206, 90S lis. I'd, spent G212, 40S
Us. lid, with further engagements to
the extent of G125, 1872 IS. Cd, and issued
1902 copies of the Scriptures.
Bishop Payne, of the Southern Meth
odist Church, is n years old; Bishop
kavanaugh is rs; Bishop Wightman, SO;
Bishop Doggett, 81; Bishop Pierce, Sc;
Bishop Keener, Sc; Bishop Marvin, "a;
and Bishop McTyeire, 53.
The venerable Bishop Smith, of Ken
lucky, presiding Bishop of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the United
States, preached in New York on re-
cent Sunday. He is eighty-three years
Of age, has been sixty years in holy or
ders and forty years in the episcopate
An exchange tells of villa ge cler-
gymen who, visiting a parishioner suffer-
ing from lingering disease, expressed
to his wife hope that she sometimes
spoke to him OF the future. g do in
deed, sir" was the reply. Gotten and
often wakes him in the night and SAYS:
John, John, you little think of the tor
ture as is prepared for you"
The late Legislature of North Caro-
lima established two State Normal
Schools, one for white, the other for col
ored teachers, the same appropriation
being made for each school. This is the
first attempt ever made by the State of
North Carolina to train the teachers of
her public schools.
AT the Episcopal Diocesan Conven-
ton, in session recently at Chattanooga,
the Rev. John B. Mcconnell, colored,
delivered an impressive sermon. This
is the first instance in the United States
of colored clergyman preaching to a
white congregation in the Episcopal
Church. Bishop Quintard, who pre-
sided over the convention, was a Chap
lain in the Confederate Army.
The effect of Mr.. Moody's preaching
has been to destroy the essay as an arti-
Gle for pulpit use. His downright,
straightforward, and often UMPIRE
meditated utterances have shown them
selves SO effective that the manuscript
and memoriter methods have suffered ir-
recoverably by the comparison. There
may still be the man who must read; but
he will be the exceptional one, living in
proof of the rule United Presbyterian.
The bill passed by the Minnesota
Legislature last winter awarding the
contract for publishing text. books for the
public schools at a stipulated price is in
operative, and the commissioners under
whose supervision the work was to have
been performed have resigned. The
regular school-book publishing houses
have agreed to furnish books at prices
below those allowed under the bill
Judge Pillsbury, of Pontiac, ILL.,,
has decided that the Directors of pub
lie school have a right to dictate what
books shall be studied and used, and can,
therefore, order the Bible to be read as
textbook in connection with other
studies. This decision was rendered in
a suit brought by Roman Catholic, who
had instructed his son to pay no atten-
ton when the Bible was read in the
school, but to go on studying his lessons
The lad was expelled, and the action of
the schoolmistress was justified both by
the Trustees and the court.
There is a Methodist church at
Trinidad. Col, almost on the line of New
Mexico, which has not single male
member in it. 1t is an adobe building,
plastered inside and out. 1t cost SO 600
and is paid for. The official board is
composed entirely of women, who keep
their finances up to the mark. The
pastor, Rev. J. E. Richards, a talented
young man, says he never had board
that kept its business in as good order
as this one. At the last quarterly meet
ing the minister's salary, that of the pre-
siding elder, the sections bill and the in
cidental expenses were met promptly.
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