The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

upon its day and night schools.
The St. Louis School Board has
abolished girls commandments.
The Rev DR.. Stephen Tying, of New
York, is reputed to be worth half a mill
ion.
Henry Marley, the Baptist evangelist
of London, has started on an evangel-
istic tour round the world.
DR. John Halls congregation in New
York gave him $1,000 to defray the ex-
penses of his European trip.
There is a Scriptural readers society
in Ireland whose income is $4,000 a
year, and which supports fifty readers.
The California Ad0ocate reports the
mission work among the Chinese Of that
State as growing in interest andin promise
of a rich fruitage.
A Christian Work Assembly will be
held for eight days, commencing July 5,
at Geneva Lake, Wis, seventy-fve miles
northwest Of Chicago.
A Baptist minister of Charlestown,
Mass, about to leave for the West, was
rendered dinner by the neighboring
Catholic clergyman.
Fourteen per cent. of the Harvard
students are Unitarians, - per cent are
Congregationalists and about II percent.
are Episcopalions.
james Robert Priest, a young negro
from Liberia, whittier he will return, has
Just graduated at Columbia College in the
first fourth of his class.
believers in new religion, called
Morrisism, are gathering in Walla Walla,
Washington Territory, in expectation of
ii second coming of Christ.
1t is estimated that the school fund
of the State of Texas will be $50 900, 900
when the school lands are all sold, and
the annual income will be $2,S00,000.
The losses of the English Wesleyan
Church are so heavy from one cause or
another that it takes this year As, 181
new members to afford net increase of
9,G17.
The school fund of Maine amounts
to $423, SOB. The State paid for schools
last year S431, AS, and the towns raised
$657, 705-$161, 1884 more than was re-
quired by law.
There is perhaps no State where the
Roman Catholic Church is making more
rapid progress than in California. New
churches, schools, hospitals, ETC., are
springing up everywhere.
Moody and Sankey are to begin
new revival at Baltimore about Sept. /,
to last a month, and if successful longer
Afterward the evangelists propose re-
suming their work in Boston.
"A large proportion of the population
of the Southern States is connected with
churches. There are about 100000
Methodists, 1000 Baptists, and hun
dreds of thousands of Presbyterians,
Episcopalians and Catholics.
Mr. John CRUDE, citizen of Indian
apolis, has professed Judaism, and been
received into the faith of Abraham. He
had married Jewess, but was not con-
verified till some months afterward and
then against the desire of his wife.
Fisk University, at Nashville, has had
246 colored students the past year. OF
these - are in the college course, and
so are preparing for college. Eighty
three are studying Latin, 80 Greek, "a
the higher mathematics, 80 botany and
80 theology.
The Southern portion of the Method
ist Protestant Church, which has been
reunited with the Northern portion, has
gained about 5000 members since 1874.
The reunited church has about 49, 900
members.
Of the Protestant churches in Mich
igan, the Methodist Episcopal leads with
$500 members, the Baptists have a.
27S, the Presbyterians 1860, the Con-
gregationalists 1885, the Episcopalians
1857, and the United Presbyterians
1900, making a total of 120,S10.
-Fifty-three churches in New York
are loaded with So, 36S, 600 in mortgages.
And besides there are doubtless debts
otherwise secured The Presbyterian
total is 100000; the Reformed, 1914
600; Protestant Episcopal, $453, 600; Ro-
man Catholic, 1929, 600; Baptist, $212,-
600; Methodist, $40, 900; Lutheran, $45,-
coo.
The Friends in England and the
United States have just got through
holding tier yearly meetings. In the
latter country the Friends have 10000
members, with G62 church edifces,
$500 Sunday school scholars, and church
property worth 81, O00,0 In Great
Britain there are 10000 more members,
and there few also connected with Eu-
ropean and foreign missions.
In the recent General Assembly of
the United Presbyterian Church the most
interesting debate was on the subject of
instrumental music. A motion was made
to send the matter down TO the presby-
teries in order that liberty might be
given to the churches wishing to use the
organ, but after a stirring discussion the
assem- bly, refused to send the question
to the presbyteries by avote of 40 to 80.
Quite recently there was received at
the [. S. Treasury from Boston a check
for large sum of money from a person
who claimed to have been converted by
Moody and Sankey. The money he said
was due the Government, and he re-
quested that the amount should be cred
tied to the conscience fund. The check
was forwarded for collection and proved
to be worthless.
Rev. G. T. Bowling, pastor of the
Central Baptist Church, of Syracuse, un-
derstands how swindlers should be dealt
with. One Joseph Fry has been travel