The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are three less Baptist churches
in Boston than one year ago.
The So, 299 colored Baptists of North
Carolina have only $50 ministers.
Moody thinks that he will preach in
small New England towns rather than
large Western cities.
"A branch of the Evangelical AL
lance has been organized in Spain.
Thirty ministers have joined it.
-Eminence College, Eminence, KY,
had 14S students last year, of whom
seventy eight were males and seventy
females.
Bishop Rosecrans claims that the
anti-CatholiC movement in Ohio last wear
has resulted in bringing many Americans
into the church.
The Papal envoy who recently came
to Canada has given instruction that in
future priests must not interfere with
their people in voting at elections.
Of the members and probationers of
the Methodist Episcopal Church one in
every nineteen belongs to foreign popu-
lations not using the English tongue.
The Pacific says that the sowing of
good seed by the Presbyterian Mission to
the Chinese in San Francisco is already
bringing forth one hundred fold"
Over eighty students have thus far
entered the medical department of Dart
mouth College this term, the largest
number of any term for many years.
The Trustees of the University of
North Carolina have elected Prof. F. w.
Simmonds, of Cornell University, Pro-
fessor of Natural History in the former
institution.
1t is reported that body of $4,000
CzeChs of Volhyma have broken loose
from the Roman Catholic Church, and
declared their adhesion to Old Catholic
Bishop Reinkens,
Illinois is the banner State for Sab
bath-schools. 1t reports for 1877 6,231
schools, being an increase of 269 over
last year, with 1854 teachers and Off.
GERS, and AGA, 631 scholars. An army of
half million Bible students!
This is one of the questions asked
by the American missionaries of converts
in Eastern Turkey: DO you cheat your
customers by inserting pasteboard or
leather chips in the soles Of the shoes
you make as you used to do?"
The Evangelical Church of Prussia
has about 10000 600 of population, with
5000 ministers and as many congrega-
tions. Of the congregations the King
has the patronage of 1900, and 1900
are free.
Georgia Baptists pay their pastors
better salaries than any other State
South; Kentucky ranks next, then Vir-
ginia; South Carolina is fourth, Mary
land fifth, while North Carolina and
Arkansas pay the smallest.
AT recent cornerstone LAYING of an
Episcopal Church in st. Joseph, Me-, the
Jewish rabbi of that place held an UNI
brella over the Bishops head, and the
trowel used by the latter belonged to the
rabbi and was used by him ten years ago
in laying the foundation of synagogue.
The Baptist churches in China cor
respond with each other annually. Ac-
cording to the letters of 1876 there are
twenty churches in China three in Cali
fornia and Oregon, and one each in
Demarara and Siam, making in all TWEEN
ty-fve churches, with 1902 communi-
cants. The number of baptisms was 1877.
The University of Tubingen will
celebrate this year its four hundredth an
niversary. 1t was founded by Count
Eberhard i'm Bart, best known through
Uhland's poems. INLAND, who was
native OF Tubingen, also occupied chair
at the university. The University of
Upsal will also celebrate shortly its four
hundredth anniversary.
DIR. Guthrie spoke of shipbuilder who
paid him the greatest compliment by say
ing: During the preaching of most
ministers, be they short or long, gen.
orally contrive in my own mind to lay
the keel and build the ship from stem to
stern, but during your sermon l cannot
lay single plank"
Whatever is good will in the long
run prevail. Honesty is the best policy;
so are charity, love, truthfulness, candor,
manliness, and all the other virtues. Vice
may flourish for time, and even have a
rapid growth; but it is goodness that
continues and succeeds in the end
United Presbyterian.
The JeWish Messenger says that the
Jewish Sabbath has apparently ceased to
exert its old and proper influence, and
that a fashionable Israelite is of little
use. ais American Judaism sleeping
the sleep of the dead?" it asks. The
vital Importance to Judaism of the Sab
bath and of education, it believes, must
be urged by pulpit and press if the pres
ent lethargy is to be succeeded by ac-
tivity.
The strength of Universalsm is, in
the following States: Massachusetts, 119
churches, 5 SAL members; New York, 101
churches, 5,422 members; Ohio, "a
churches, 1859 members; Illinois, As
churches, 26l9 members; Indiana, as
churches, 2 $50 members; Maine, SO
churches, LASS members; Pennsylvania,
"a churches, 1866 members; Vermont,
81 churches, 1889 members; New Jer-
sey, churches, BAT members; Alabama,
10 churches, 252 members.
The story is told OF Methodist
female preacher from Chicago, who
preached for month in Indianapolis,
with much success; and whose husband
then came on to assist her, but did not
quite keep up the family reputation. He
would preach, and she would help him
out by following him with an exhortation.