The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

lege.
The Roman Catholic congregation a
Rome has pronounced against the canon
ization of Christopher Columbus.
"A rich ministerial miser has beef
found in New Hampshire. Clergymer
are seldom parson- moneyous.
There are now 400 students at Dart
mouth, the largest proportion-149-
coming from New Hampshire.
The Protestant Episcopal House Of
Bishops has adopted canon for the or
ganization of sisterhood of deaconesses
as recommended by the lower house.
The members of Christ Church, Bos
ton, the Oldest church building in the
city, still use the Bible, prayer-book and
silverware which were presented by King
George II. in 1888.
"A class in Sanscrit has been formed
at Cornell The college of Oriental Ian.
guages and literature is becoming an i'm
portant department in the university cur
riculum.
The missionary of the American
Board in Guadalajara, Mexico, where a
few years ago a missionary was assassi-
mated by the populace, reports church
of 175 members, of whom fOrty-five were
received the past year.
The Tennessee Methodist Confer
ence, composed of white and colored
ministers, has been divided into the Ten
nessee and Central Tennessee Confer
ences. The latter is composed of the
white preachers exclusively.
Prof. Seelye, of Amherst, has lately
made the suggestion that there should
be college exchange" where the fac
ulty and students could meet and eX-
change opinions upon live questions. 1t
is proposed to hold such meetings once
week.
The Illinois Methodist State Confer
ence adopted resolution at their late
meeting refusing to handle or use those
books now being published for our COM
mon schools, excluding the name of God
and His Christ" and they ask Christian
people to unite with them in that action
The Hungarian Minister of Worship
has just announced his decision that
henceforward the marriage with Jewess
of Christian converted to the Jewish
persuasion will be held null and void
This declaration has caused universal
discomfort in the Jewish community
The New Hampshire Convention of
Universalists recently adopted the fol
lowing resolution on temperance:
RESOLVED, That total abstinence from all
Intoxicating drinks, not excepting the bever-
age used at the communion table, is the only
course consistent with Christian morality,
and with the well-known effects of alcohol
upon the human system.
"A correspondent of the ChmchmGn
says "secret societies are very strong,
numerically, among the members of the
Episcopal Church, perhaps stronger than
among those of any other religious body"
He says these societies often receive rec
ognition by clergymen in special services,
and he thinks the practice indefensible.
California University has 314 stu
dents, forty nine of them women. The
total receipts of funds for the past two
years were $3.50, 821 IS; the disburse.
ments, including investments in bonds
and seminary land fund, and deposits in
banks, 1856, 1877 SO. There are $4,000
volumes in the library.
President Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity, stated at the closing meeting of
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions that 100000 had
been raised in Providence, within few
months, to pay missionary debts. In
May, the Baptist Foreign Missionary
Union raised $4,000 in that city to re-
lieve the Indebtedness of its treasury.
1t is just as fit for Mrs. Van Colts
hymn-book preface to be signed Yours,
lovingly, Maggie" as it would be for DR..
Hodge to introduce his theology as from
"Your atfectionate Charlie" or for Bish-
op Stevens to send pastoral letter sub
scribed: Your own Billy boy" The
truth is, that the Widow Van Colt is too
sentimental and atfectionate to edit
hymn book Sunday school Times.
The New York Board of Education
is warmly discussing the question of cor
poral punishment in the schools. At
present a boy by acting very badly can
get expelled, and 50 escape the disci-
pline which he hates, and by the same
process teacher can get rid of hard
customer. The feeling is growing that
this kind of boys should be educated if it
takes an occasional dose of birch to do it,
"A young English lady has printed
" The Clergy List, Revised and CLASH
fed, showing that England has 70 clergy
men named White, 3 Black, Green and
rs Brown. Although none of them are
Roman Catholics, there are IA Abbots,
z Priors, Monks and Nuns. In the
clerical poultry yard or game preserves
are4 Peacocks, 3 Goslings, Partridges, Z
Hares, 5 Sparrows, Crows, Ravens,
% Martins, 6 Finches, Doves and
Nightingale.
The Interior says thirty-five students
of the Union Theological Seminary are
engaged in Sabbath school work and
household visitation in New York city
and vicinity. They set an example that
might be followed by all students who
enjoy similar opportunities. Doing good
to others by their philanthropy, they
will do much more for themselves, and,
starting out from the seminaries, they
will not only be instructed in the philoso-
ply of the ministry, but will have valua-
BILE training in its practical work. INIT
ed Presbyterian.
A Monster Devil-Fish.