The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

ale COlIeSe.
Amherst College has given its pro-
fessorS raise in salaries.
There are upward of 10000 Sun
day-schools in the United States, with
5000, 200 scholars.
Prussia has 40 Roman Catholic
papers; Austria, II; Bavaria, 0;Switzer-
land, 53; SaXony, 3; Baden, y.
The Hindoos of Benares have or
ganized a society for sending missiona-
ries to convert " drunken Englishmen. -
"A young woman has begun the
study of architecture in Syracuse Uni
versity. She is the first of her sex to
do so.
The Congregationalists of the Pa
cific coast have passed resolutions IA
voring restriction of Chinese emigra-
ton.
There is not much better definition
of prayer possible than that of the child
prayer is just asking God for all the
things we need.
Miss NJ. X. Pike, the only girl COM
petitor, carried off the first prize in a
recent freshman prize defamation at
Bates College.
The Jubilee Singers of Fisk Uni
versity are now giving concerts in Ger
many. They have raised in the six
years they have been singing about
S15O,0O0.
Baron Anderson, on being asked to
give his opinion as to the proper length
of a sermon, replied: Twenty min
utes, with a leaning to the side of
mercy"
The Baptist Weekly calls for a union
of the two Baptist Bible Revision Soci-
cites, and says their continued separa-
ton and antagonism are disgrace to
the denomination.
The Baptist Church at Perry, Nc
Kean County, Pa, has eXpunged res
olution, by avote of sc to 67, prohibiting
a Freemason from becoming member.
The resolution had been in operation
for fifty years.
Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass,
has a membership this year in the clas-
steal department of twenty-four male
and twenty-siX female students, and in
the English and scientific of twenty
males and twelve females-a total of
eighty-two.
Ministers who use tobacco will
hereafter have poor chance among
the United Brethren. The Miami Con-
ference of that body has passed reso-
luton to the effect that no tobacco
using clergyman will be admitted to
fellowship.
The Rev. Moses Howe, who is now
eighty-nine years old, has been engaged
in the Christian ministry for sixty-three
years, and during all that period has
had but two pastorates, one at Ports
mouth, N. H., and the other at New
Bedford, Mass.
The dissenting ministers of England
are earnestly striving for the privilege
of burying their dead in the Church of
England graveyards with their own re-
ligious ceremonies. About $4,000 cler-
gymen of the Church of England have
signed protest against granting their
request.
An English clergyman, Rev. H.
Douglass, lately resigned a rectorship
worth $4,000 a year, and accepted
vicarage in populous district calling
Tor laborl0us work with stipend OF
81, OOo. Those who never " heard OF
minister being called to smaller sala-
ry, take notice.
"A new sect has been organized at
Allegheny, Pa, called the Body OF Be
levers. They believe moth the Trinity,
but IN Jesus, in whose name alone they
baptlze. They believe that the soul
sleeps after death until Christ's second
coming, when saints shall be clothed
with Immortality.
-About 100 Rantist women with
Mrs. Banvard as President. have ORGAN
lied at Boston the "Women's Home
Mission Society, for the education and
evangelization of the women of the neg
lected and needy sections of our continent
freed women of the South, Indian wOm-
en-, Chinese women of the Pacific coast
and women of Mexico
WHO'S vour nastor INV doarp,,
asked a Good lady rom the conntTv od-
dressino bar daTohtar who had baan
livinr IN the oitv for balf q vear or 90
"Really. mother. I hardly know. T
never saw him. He was away on vaca-
ton last summer. and now he has start