The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


There are in Surgeons London Tab
ernacle 125 lay preachers. The number
of members is 4 1851.
There are $50 Protestant churches
in Palestine and 1900 scholars in theil
schools.
Providence, R. l., has the honor OF
entertaining the Baptist anniversary as.
semblages this year.
The next annual meeting of the Ma.
tional Educational Association and its
associated departments will be held in
Pittsburgh, Aug. IA, IS and 16.
Ten of the thirty-siX crowned heads
of Europe are Catholics, two are of the
Greek Church and twentyfour are Prot.
estant. ......--.
The work of revising the hymn book
of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
be finished, probably, before the 1st of
June
Brooklyn had in 1871 $50 churches;
it now has $50. The Catholics have
doubled the number of worshipers re-
ported by any of the Protestant demon
nations.
The total value of the property held
by Lafayette College amounts to over
$500, 200, and its productive funds yield
an annual income of $40, 900 The col
lege has never received dollar by di-
rect bequest.
1t has been proposed to start penny
banks in connection with the public
schools of New York. The experiment
has been tried in London, where in few
months 5,26G children deposited no less
than $500.
There are 1 100000 children in Ire
land of school age, and more than ,0O0,-
900 of them are on the roll of the Ma
tional Board schools-a proportion greatly
in excess of the proportion which pre-
walls in England.
The Philadelphia Methodist Confer
ence has fourteen ministers who have
been in pastoral service over forty years
Three of these have been doing pastoral
work over fifty years, and one is still in
the active ministry after fifty-four years
service.
There is an agitation in favor of caps
and gowns, to be worn by the seniors on
Commencement day, in the Eastern col
leges. The Williams seniors have de-
gown appears to be in favor with the
Harvard and Columbia undergraduates
The thirtieth annual report of the
State Superintendent of instruction of
New Hampshire shows that there are
74,747 children in the State between the
ages of five and fifteen, of whom all but
4,155 were in attendance at school dur
ing the last year.
Under the influence of Mr. Moody
revival meetings of the different trades
are being held in Boston, the marketmen
in one place, the dry-goods people in an
other, etc, even the newspaper men as
sembling to the number of about one
hundred, led by Mr.. Stockwell of the
Journal.
Rev. Mr. zimmerman, of Hacken-
sack, n. j., the Oldest man in the Jersey
City Presbytery, has just retired from
the pastorate of the Hackensack Presby-
terrain Church. He is eighty-tive years
old, and has been preaching for sixty
years, forty of which were passed in
Hackensack.
DR.. Crosby writes long article in
the Christian Union on the coeducation
of the sexes. He says that the action of
the University of New York in this mat,
ter has been misunderstood 1t had re-
lation only to the academic department,
and only contemplated examinations or
class instruction, or both, for women by
themselves, and did not regard coeduca-
ton or the establishment of mixed classes
of both sexes. 1864.
Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff, writing from
Alexandria, says; Presbyterianism is
the only form of Professionalism which
has taken root among the natives of
Egypt. 1t is the evangelical pioneer
church. But there are few German
and English churches in Alexandria and
Cairo for the foreign population in these
large cities" Miss NJ. L. Whately,
daughter of the Arch bishop of Dublin, is
carrying on a large school of $50 girls
and $50 boys in Cairo. Arabic, English,
French and Italian are taught, and
Scripture lessons are also given.
"A writer in the Christian MtelIi-
gencer, in speaking of preaching and
hearing, says that there is an ear-itching
epidemic. Prodigies are sought for who
can daze and amaze crowds hungry for
magnificent trifles of rhetorical cooking,
and thirsting for the foam produced by
gusty verbosity. He thinks the best
sermons are not those Which blaze and
sputter and explode like rockets, but
which descend as the dew, but quicken
with the energy of light.
The Rev Joseph Cook concluded a
lecture ON the " Church and the Factory"
recently delivered in Boston, with these
strong words: "You never can bridge
the chasm between capital and labor by
a kid glove. You never can bridge it
with the bayonet In the Old World it
has been brdged by the bayonet on the
Continent, and by the kid glove in En-
gland. But in New England the only
bridge that will cross the chasm is popu-
lar, scientific, aggressive, deadly Chris
tianity, laid on the buttresses of the
Sabbath and the common schools"
The JewisA Nessea ger makes "Good
Friday" the text for depreciation of the
religion which celebrates it. Chris
tianity," it says, cannot better Jew,