The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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Roman Catholics are doing con-
siderable colonizing in Texas.
The Iowa Methodist Conference has
resolved to admit no minister who uses
tobacco.
The average length of the pastorate
in the United Presbyterian Church is
eight years.
The Seventh-Day Baptists are prose-
cutting missions in Europe with con-
siderable success.
There is nothing that so convinces
man that there is truth in religion as
to see true religion in Christians,
The benefits of Girard College,
Philadelphia, have been thrown open to
orphan boys born in the city of New
York.
Sweden and Switzerland contribute
the largest number of new members to
the Mormon Church. England is third
on the list.
When clergyman remarked there
would be nave in the new church the
society was building, an old lady wills
pered that she "knew the party to whom
he referred"
The city of Providence is Justly en-
titled to the proud name of the City of
Missions. Within few months no less
than 100000 has been raised to pay
missionary debts.
The Madrid Government has issued
an order severely censuring the Mayor
of Ignatoraf for unduly influencing Prot
estant parents to have their children
baptized by priests.
If the Northern and Southern Pres
byterian Churches were united, the sum
total of members would be go, 124 In
1861, when they parted, the total num-
Der of members in the united body was
300,S14.
"A Methodist minister in Georgia
walks thirty miles in each week in
order to fulfill one of his appointments,
and works two days out of every week
in q brickyard for corn to feed his
family.
The religious societies have had
very good receipts the past year, not
Withstanding the dullness of business.
Fifty-one Bible, missionary and educa-
tional societies report aggregate receipts
of SS,012, 130.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church of
the United States was organized in 1843
as distinctively anti-slavery body. Its
publishing house is at Syracuse, n. Y.
There are in its service 800 ministers,
distributed into sixteen conferences.
The Yale College catalogue gives
the number of students as 1,039, includ-
ing 1873 academic seniors, IA juniors,
131 sophOmores and 1863 freshmen, 157
in the scientific school, 107 theologues,
80 in the medical school and 90 in the
law.
One hundred and twenty-five Sun
day-schools have thus far been heard
from, with thirty dollars each for the
American Home Missionary Society's
debt. One thousand were called for,
and the other S75 are urgently requested
to hurry up.
The annual income Of the Church
of England is $50, 100000. The church
has 10000 religious edifices, including
thirty cathedrals, 10000 glebe-houses,
thirty-one episcopal palaces, and 1,000,-
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condition for tillage.
AT Edwin Adams funeral the Off
ciating clergyman, the Rev. DR.. Nor
ton, said in the course of his address:
There are some occupations surrounded
with special temptations, but there is
no honest calling in which a man may
not serve God and secure heaven"
The Evangelical Alliance has is
sued programme for the week of
prayer, which begins Jan. 6, 1873.
Among the topics are: 1.-The Church
of Christ in All Lands" christian
Families, - Nations" Christian Mis-
sions," and 1.-The Circulation of the
Bible''
In the belief that the State of Mis-
sissippi has been derelict in her duty to
public-school children, Mr.. Sears, the
general agent of the Peabody educa-
tional fund, has this year withdrawn
the aid heretofore extended to her
schools, and given it to other Southern
States that are taking livelier interest
in the public education of their youth.
The Golden Rule observes pointedly:
IL 10 anu oNlNl NCttlS
since a Christian gentleman named
Paul wrote to one Timothy: Il suffer
not woman to teach, nor to usurp au-
thority over the man, but to be in 81
lence.' And now as many as twenty
nine women are advertised in the Chi
cago papers as conducting religious
services and preaching on a single Sun
day" ..
1t is noted in relation to some of
the Southern colored schools that the
work of educating the negro is some
times failure because the black parents
will not submit to restraint. They
won't allow their children to be pun
ished in school or undergo anything
that savors of coercion; they seem to
think that discipline means servitude,
and are apt to look upon the teacher as
master in disguise.
The Catholic Times, commenting on
the proposition of the Episcopal Church
to style itself 1.-the Catholic Church of
America" says; awe remember the
time when to call an Episcopalian a
Catholic would have been considered
gross INSULT but of late there appears
to be a charm in the name; and, in
deed, there is a charm in the name and