The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Jesuit Fathers intend to found a
college at Providence, R. l.
The Russian Synod has published
Russian version of the Bible, the result
of twenty years labor,
The Methodist Episcopal Church in
Pennsylvania added 81, 642 to its mem
bership last year.
There are in Quebec 115 male and
1922 female teachers who receive an
nual salaries of less than 500.
The city of Constantinople has $50
Mohammedan mosques and thirty-six
Christian churches.
Wesleyan University has lately re-
ceived $4,000 or $4,000, with $4,000
more subscribed by the ministers of the
New York East Conference.
The Second Presbyterian Church,
Stanton, Va, has voted every third pew
in their new church edifce free to the
public.
May 10 conventions of the Method
list and Methodist Protestant Churches
will meet in Baltimore to arrange for the
reunion of the two bodies.
Two Congregational Churches in
New England have refused to call two
students of the senior class of Andover
Seminary because they are addicted to
the use of tobacco.
Archbishop Blanchet, of Oregon, is
the Oldest Catholic prelate in the United
States, being now over eighty years of
age, but still active in ecclesiastical
duties.
The number of scholars in the dis
senting Sunday schools in England and
Wales is 2,557,0 900. Of this number the
Wesleyans have 725, 900 and the Congre-
gationalists 535, 600. ...a
President Seelye thinks the system
of elective studies, as Illustrated at Har-
ward, is failure. He believes Harvard
is turning out poorer students to-day
than fifteen or twenty years ago.
During the period from Feb. to
March "a the requests for prayer offered
at the Moody and Sankey meetings in
Boston divide themselves into 1877 re-
quests offered by men and 1894 offered
by women.
There are $4,000 Baptists in Michi-
gan. A larger number were received
into the churches during the last year
than in any other of the ffty-two years
since the first church was organized-by
baptism alone, nearly 5000.
An amendment to the School law of
Nevada provides that Salaries of teachers
shall be determined by the character of
service required, and that in no district
shall there be discrimination in the mat
ter of salary as against female teachers.
The American Bible Society has ap-
propriated $32, 600 for Bible distribution
in China, Japan, South America, Russia
and other lands. The receipts of the So
ciety for the year ending March 81
amount to $685. $40. The number of vol
umes issued during the year was 621 ,725.
Of the 250,OO0 Germans in New
York city, $4,000 are Protestants, 10000
are Roman Catholics, 10000 are Jews
and $4,000 are uncassifed. There are
forty-one German Protestant churches,
besides several chapels, embracing a.
600 communicates.
The other day the New York Pres
bytery had some fifteen young students
before it for examination for license to
preach. The examination in theology
occupied only little over half an hour
and but two questions were asked of each
man.
The Oldest living minister of the
Presbyterian Church is said to be the
Rev. Noah NJ. Wells, of Erie, Mich. He
will be ninety-fve years old next July
He is graduate of Union College, and
is in good health, taking all interest in
passing events and scientific discoveries,
and is seldom absent from church.
Miss Smiley, the Quakeress, still
holds the confidence of the people, gained
by many years of disinterested labor
Even the objections to preaching by
women are usually waived in her case
In Chicago, where she had been giving
Bible readings" she occupied Pres
byterian pulpit, mot even the PASTOR"
says the Adoance, collecting" Her
meetings were attended by large num-
bers of hearers.
Chicago is destined to be great
educational center. A fifth university
there is in prospect, to be established by
the Reformed Episcopalians. Mr.. Ed
ward Martin, of New York, has con-
veyed to trustees property outside of
the limits of the city of Chicago, esti-
mated to be worth $500, 600, as an en-
dowment of college of theology in this
University of the West" as it will be
called. The college will take Mr.
Martins name.
The Boston University faculty adj
vertise that they have decided to raise
the standard of admission for four sue
cessive years until it is higher than at
any American, English or German uni
versity, for the sake of maintaining the
very highest degree of under, graduate
instruction and keeping the classes so
small that all the students can be taught
by the heads of the departments alone
To relieve applicants for admission from
undue pressure, the entrance examina-
ton is to be divided into two, the first is
to be passed year before entering.
The old hymn, Rock of Ages, Cleft
For Me-" was written by the Rev.
Augustus Montague Toplady about one
hundred years ago. During these hun
dred years it has found its way into al
most every land and every tongue. Some
time ago an American clergyman at
tended an Armenian Church in Con-