The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The salaries of Methodist ministers
in California range from $50 to $4,000
per year.
Dartmouth College has given New
Hampshire eight Governors and ever SO
many schoolmasters.
The Church Missionary Society has
now seventy-tive men under training for
its mission fields. a--- T- ..-- .--
The American Convention of New
gian, will be held in Cincinnati, June /.
1t is said that there are more Baptist
churches and members in Philadelphia
than in any other city Of the world, save
London.
The Rev. DR.. Hepworth has sue
cceded in raising the whole 800, 900, the
debt on the Church of the Disciples,
New York, which he personally assumed.
"A Catholic priest at Aasen, Baden,
has been sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment for having spoken ill of Prot
estants in his sermon.
Hereafter the students of Williams
College must stay indoors on Sunday
afternoons, as walking on that day has
been prohibited by the faculty.
MIR. Lyman Bennett, of Troy, N. Y,
has given $4,000 to the Freedmen's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for the erection of college
building at Greensboro, N. G.
The Baptist Weekly says many of
the $4,000 colored Baptists of North
Carolina {" can repeat as much Scripture
as many of their educated brethren North
and West" #.
An Allentown (Pa.) teacher to vary
school routine inaugurated the "query
basket" for scholars to drop questions in.
The question now is: How to abandon
it!" The interrogatives already number
over 900.
Judge Hastings, of California, offers
to deposit 500, 000in the State Treasury
on condition that the State shall pay
$1,000 per annum forever to the Uni
versity of California to endow profess
sorship and purchase law books.
Letters to the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions say revival has broken
out in Persia at the stations of the board
At Oroomiah seventy persons have APP
piled for admission to the church, and
twenty have been accepted at one of the
sub-stations.
The School Commissioner of Hardin
County, KY, says that the few school
houses in his county are not as good as
the average of horse stables, and he be-
lieves that, as whole, the people there
abouts are making greater efforts to raise
stock than to educate their children.
Among those who passed the recent
Cambridge England local examinations
with honors was lad of sixteen named
Farrar, who was deaf and dumb. He
obtained a certificate for classics and
mathematics, which, in the case of one
who is deaf and dumb, was the first that
ever occurred in the United Kingdom.
More than 100000 copies of the
Bible are printed yearly. This is equal
to more than 10000 every week, more
than 5000 every day, 300 every hour, or
five every minute of working time. More
copies of the sacred Scriptures are de-
manded in the English language than in
the languages of all the other nations of
the world.
The Christian Mission employ 220
agents and spend $350,000 year to con-
vert Jews in Europe The most success
IL work has been done in London, where
there have been /, 1896 baptisms, but the
mission at Rome, which has been open
several years, does not count single
convert.
The seventeenth General Confer
ence of the United Brethren in Christ Ia
denomination resembling the Methodists
in doctrine and methods) will meet at
Westfield, H., May 10. The church has
forty three annual conferences, one of
which is in Germany and one in Canada.
1t has 4,07S churches, 143, SS1 members,
1852 ministers. 1t raised for various
purposes, including ministers salaries,
1868, 799 in 1876.
-"Too many ministers" is the COM
plant made at the Newark Methodist
Episcopal Conference recently in session.
Bishop Peck thought that there should
be a committee appointed to dismiss
from the service old and sick preachers
actually incapacitated for service, and to
PiS'ShU L'Nu llOh
entering it. The supply, the Bishop
said, must be diminished, or else two or
three men must be appointed to each
charge.
The hymn beginning
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love
was written by the Rev. John Fawcett,
pastor of small Baptist country church
in England. The occasion of its being
written is interesting. Mr. Fawcett had
received and accepted call to large
church in London. He had preached his
farewell sermon, his furniture and books
were on the wagons, and the weeping
congregation, men, women and children,
were gathered to say farewell. Mrs.
Fawcett, sitting on one of the boxes,
amidst her tears, looked up into her hus
bands face and said: 80 John, John!
cannot bear this" Nor l, either" said
the good man, weeping. Nor will we
go. Unload the wagons and put every
thing where it was before" The people
cried with joy. Then it was that he
wrote the immortal hymn, as noticed
above. tt. ..
A Story Gen. Sherman Didn't Tell.