The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-08-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

AN"U hJCoIS
Texas has given half her public
lands to the school fund.
Maryland has school population Of
BOB, 700, with 731 teachers.
William and Mary College recently
held its 1S4th Commencement.
1t costs New York city $4,000, 900 a
year to keep up its day and night schools
The kindergarten system is partial
~ used in the primary schools of Wash.
ington. ....-.. .r.
In thirteen months the Methodsts
OF Pine Grove, Pa, have built a hand.
some church and parsonage, and have a
property worth $500 without penny
of debt.
The Church of Jesus in Mexico now
has seventy congregations. The Ameri-
can Church Missionary Society down to
the present has furnished S75, 592 to car
ry on the work of this young church.
"A proposition to allow females to be
made members of the vestry of churches
was, after much discussion in the Epis-
copal Convention Of Kansas, tabled by a
very close vote.
The Congregational churches in Hi
nois are now PAL, and the membership
22,59O, an increase over last year of
1,G49. The value of church edifces re.
ported is 1,772, S25; of parsonages, $70,-
600
The Southern Presbyterian Assem-
bly,, at its recent session in New Orleans,
resolved to prosecute with energy the
scheme of establishing seminary for
the education of colored members, at
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
At the present moment 1000, 600
Hindoo and 100000 Mohammedan chill
dren are attending schools in India, and
$4,000 to 10000 Of hem are receiving
instruction up to the English universe
ties standard.
"A distinguished Japanese traveller in
this country writes home: "The chief
branch of education of young men here
is rowing. The people have large boat
houses, called colleges, and the princi-
pal of these are Yale and Harvard"
The twenty-five Baptist churches in
Brooklyn have membership of 9,034
During the past year they raised $4S,S72
for benevolent purposes, and $lS9,516
for all objects. The value of church
property is $1,000,000, and the church
Indebtedness $500, 600.
The Norwich w.t. University has
received an application from young
lady to enter the next freshman class
Capt. Curtis, the President, replied that
if the fair applicant was willing to COM
ply with all the regulations in respect to
wearing uniforms, drill, etc, she would
be admitted, provided she passed the
examinations.
The Rev. Dwight Temple, of Chat
tanoOga, Tenn, states the following fact
of the Fisk University for colored stu
dents in Nashville " Out of 245 students
there are no more than a dozen who are
not Christians. The reason for this
large proportion is that our young people
do not often have an ambition to become
educated until they become Christians"
-" One great want of the hour" says
the Christian Intelyjgencer, "is enthu-
siasm in the ministry. 1t is all very well
to have a fine engine ahead of the train,
with polished brass and iron and splen-
did equipments. But when the engine
begins to puff puff as if it were tired
out, the train behind it will hardly push
it forward. He who stands in the pulpit
will find the same thing true the moment
his own zeal begins to flag"
There are forty-seven Young Won
ems Christian Associations now in the
United States, all except one formed
within ten years. Sixteen of these hold
property valued at 100000. Few
persons sufficiently realize the impor-
lance of the work which these young
ladies are SO nobly performing. There
are classes which they can reach far
beyond the scope Of any other organlza-
ton.
The Northeastern A6gOcate says:
"When we see a notice of camp
meeting or any religious service an
nouncing, as the chief attraction, that
the celebrated Rev. - or that Mrs
-, the distinguished revivalist and plat
form orator. will be present, we come to
the conclusion that those who have charge
of that enterprise are more sensational
than religious, and have more vanity
than discretion, and that the place where
they have the control is a good place
for sensible people to be absent from"
If it be true, as asserted, that in sew
eral ladies' seminaries the graduating
essays of this year were -eminently
good, it is but proof that the teachers
have been doing their duty. The old
style girls composition, made up, for the
most part, of fancy and moonshine, was
the product, not so much of the writer
as of the instructor. Appoint to young
ladies good reading; give them healthy
instruction, and stimulate them to ear
nest use of their faculties, and there need
be no complaint of want of practical
talent United Presbyterian,
Smith College for Women, at
Northampton, Mass, has course of
study rs severe as that of any college in
the country, and its standard of admis-
sion is so high that comparatively few
young women avail themselves of its
advantages. 1t is stated as a somewhat
singular fact, however, that during the
two years since it was opened there has
been only one case of sickness among its
students, and that was contracted out
side of the college. The students live