The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

KEY. DR.. Stephen Tying is worth hall
million.
-Vassar College sent out fifty sweet
graduates this year,
TUFTS College conferred no honorary
degrees this year. =
North Carolina is reported to be the
first Of the Southern States to establish a
colored normal school.
Dean College, at Binghamton, n. T..
advertises to teach etiquette.
1t is proposed to reduce the salaries
OF the Boston teachers u per cent.
The English Quakcrs are going to
send two missionaries to this country.
The Latin translation of the New
Testament was made by jerome in 4O5.
-School-books cannot now be legally
changed IN New York within five years
after their adoption.
During the last ten years Presbyte-
rian churches have been established in
Kansas at the rate of one a month.
The Baptists will hold their third
annual camp-meeting at Martha's Vine
yard, beginning AIg. IL and closing
Aug, 10.
The additions to the Reformed
DUTCH Church last year on confession
OF faith were 6,40S, the largest number
ever reported in one year.
The cook at Oxford University gets
$500 per year, while the Professor of
Poetry gets only $500. Such are the
relative values of truth and poetry.
Tho NTCboD,p,aJor 81.
world is reckoned at $50, 100000, and
has hitherto been untouched by any ener-
getic or systematic Christian effort.
1t has been calculated that for every
pound sterling England spends in mis-
sions she receives ten in trade, and it is
believed the same ratio will hold good in
the United States
Twenty of the graduating class at
Harvard this year failed of their degrees,
and the Boston Iraoeler says that more
than one was found deficient on account
OF immortality.
The proportion of the population of
Europe educated at school is: In En-
gland, l in II; Wales, l in 20; Scotland,
l in 8; Holland, l in 10; Switzerland,
in s; France, in 2S
The Atlanta Methodist Adoocate pub
fishes table showing that Northern
Methodism is growing rapidly in the
South. 1t has now in the Southern States
39l, 73l commandments, a gain of II ,4S7
for 1876.
The Central Presbytery of Philadel-
phia has passed resolution calling up
on its members and people TO arrange
their church relations so as to make I'M
necessary the use of the street-cars on
Sunday.
"A Catholic paper says the Catholics
now have missionary force of 200 in
Hindostan, and during the past year
there have been 10, 3O4 conversions, the
largest number, 2,062, being in the
Pondicherry district.
-Congregationalist, Methodist and
Baptist ministers of Boston have taken
steps toward IA formal protest to the Leg
Islatare against the introduction of any
sectarian worship into the public insti-
tutions Of the State.
The Northern Methodist Bishops Get
a salary of $1,000, with house rent and
travelling expenses. The Southern
Methodist Bishops get $4,000 a year
without any extra allowances. During
the past year the latter have not been
paid up by nearly $500 each.
The first ten minutes in the morning
at the Marshalltown Qowa) High School
is devoted to "News Budget" which
is gathered by the different scholars.
The general news of the world is given,
and since the beginning of the European
war 1t is said to have become exceeding
ly interesting.
An intelligent feminine Shaker at
South Poland, Me, when reminded of
the fact that if the Shaker principle of
cellbacy were adopted the human race
would soon run out, remarked that there
will always be enough who will not be-
lieve in the doctrine to keep the world
full of people.
-" Too many colleges" is the general
exclamation. We should prefer, how
ever, says the New York Commercial, to
qualify it by saying that too many of our
institutions which are merely schools and
academies seize upon the name of "cOl-
lege," when they really have no claim to
it. Let this educational initiation, SO to
speak, be stopped.
DR.. Montfort says Glasgow has more
Presbyterian churches than any other
city in the world There are in all 1876,
of which the Established Church has 40;
Free Church, 20; United Presbyterian,
52; COvenanters, l; United Original Sc
ceders, 3; Morrisonites, 10. Besides
these, there are 35 churches of other
evangelical denominations. The city
has population of half million.
The Boston Jour1aL sums up the
fruits of last winters revivals in Eastern
Massachusetts, gathering its information
from the statistics afforded by the May
and June communions of the principal
orthodox churches within radius of
sixty miles of Boston. Returns from 203
churches report acCessions of 5,911 mem.
bers, 4,S69 by profession and 1,042 by
letter. Of these churches the Congre.
gationalist leads with new aCcessions of
2,554 members by profession and 601 by
letter; the Baptlsts come next with $40
additions by profession and 334 by let
ter; the Methodist with 769 by profession
and 107 by letter, while the Presbyte-