The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Fennsylvanla has the largest number
OF Sunday schools among the States
1860.
The Church of Scotland has received
S8,715 toward its proposed mission in
China.
Mine thousand pupils demand ad-
mission to the public schools of Kansas
City.
The last semi-annual school-fund
apportionment in Minnesota amounted
to SAG, 50944
The widow of United States Senator
Charles Atherton is to build an Episcopal
Church at her own expense, at Nashua,
New Hampshire.
The orthodox Protestant pastors of
st. Adams, Vt, were not unanimous in
asking Moody to conduct revival services
there, and so he refuses to go.
The Boston Golden Rule states that
Moody and Sankey are paid fixed sala-
ry, made up by several wealthy gentle
men in different parts of the country.
Among the students at Harvard are
Edward Everett, Martin Van Buren,,
Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy and
Pierrepont Edwards, all descendants of
the men whose names they bear.
The University of Wisconsin has
ninety-two freshmen. President Bascom
writes to the Tribune to say that the
faculty does not agree with the Board of
Visitors in their report adverse to the CO.
education of the sexes.
The following colleges admit both
sexes on equal terms: The Cincinnati
University, Antioch College, Cornell Uni
versity, Michigan University, Penn Col
lege and the Swathmore, and of the Iowa
Law College. Two young ladies have
entered the latter this year.
1t takes an African philosopher and
poet to put whole school of religion,
its theology, philosophy, and inner and
active life into few words. Witness
this Emersonian stanZa:
Dem wat prays an de loudes' sing
Am de ones wat wars de biggest wings
One Harvard student is paying his
way through college by turning his room
into a stationery and bookstore, and an
other, graduate from Wesleyan Univer-
ity, is meeting his expenses at the law
school by working in a BARRIERS shop
The colored people of New Orleans
have held meeting and have decided
to raise funds to test in the courts that
legality of the decision of the city school
board in establishing separate schools
for colored and white children.
If you want to talk "small- talk, said
DR.. Armitage to the Baptist Sunday
school meeting at Cavalry Church last
evening, "dont try the experiment on
the children. Wishy-washy, linsey-
woolsey stuff is more acceptable to dea-
cons and old women than to child"
Mir Aulad Ali, Professor of Hindu.
stani at Trinity College, Dublin, recently
had to take an oath in court and was
sworn on the New Testament, observing
that he would take the oath on either of
the Testaments or on the Koran, believ-
ing all three to be inspired works.
The second year at Johns Hopkins
University began on Sept. %. The ex.
animation for admission is severe The
student must pass in algebra, geometry,
trigonometry, solid geometry, Latin,
Greek, French, German, natural science
and the history, structure and usage of
the English language.
"A Swedish Moody, young man of
twenty-four, E. A. Skogsberg by name,
has been conducting a series of most
successful revival meetings in Minnesota
He is said to be a speaker much like
Moody, simple, earnest and eloquent, of
fine personal appearance, and gifted
singer as well.
There is a new sect in Russia called
tho pl1rifiarc ha1npcriprr tn hn
Church. Their leading doctrines are
that all must marry on coming of age,
that the husband must be subordinate to |
the wife, and recognize her as the head |
of the family, and that once week he
must confess his sins to his wife 1t is
not stated to whom the wife is required |
to make confession.
The San Francisco Bulletin states
that the steamer City of Pekin, which |
sailed on Sept. IA from that port, Gear
ried the largest group of missionaries
that has ever left at one time. They |
were seven in number, besides Japa-
nese lady who is returning to her native !
land. A general union of the churches |
was held to hear from the missionaries |
and bid them God speed on their jour.
ney." r.. ..... ....
Of the 5,153 churches belonging to
the Presbyterian Church, 948 are reported |
vacant-about IS per cent. Of these, 80 |
are among the strongest, counting from
200 to 500 members each; SO count from
100 to 200 each; 1876 from 80 to 100 mem
bers each; 234 from 25 to so members
each; 342 from 10 to 25 members each;
81 below 10 each, of which 8 have 2 |
apiece. Of the 4, 744 ministers $50 have
no regular charge,
The Church Extension and Freed |
men Aid Societies of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church have expended, chiefly for
the colored people, $2,101, 757. ave
have to show for this" says the Chris
tian AdoOcate, Gin the South thirteen in
situations for higher education, with
twenty-six professors, 800 pupils, and |
property valued at $780, 900. Sixty |
thousand colored children are annually |
taught by the teachers sent out from our
schools and colleges"
Providence is good place in which
to raise money When the Baptists met |
there in Nav thew undertook To raise |