The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are $4,000 Roman Catholic
priests in France.
Next year the University of Missis-
sippi will dispense tuition free.
The University of Leipsic has fifty
six students from the United States.
The New Hampshire Agricultural
College is in debt and has but eleven
students.
There were thirty-s cadets at
the Poughkeepsie Military Institute last
year.
There are only three Old Catholic
parishes in Austria, and these are asking
for State recognition.
The Colorado Methodist Conference
reports 1, 916 members, an increase of n,
and 206 probationers, decrease of %.
DIR. Montfort estimates that 81, 1856
churches, 1887 ministers and 2,052, 661
members were represented at the Pan
Presbyterian Council.
The National Congregational Coun-
Gil will meet Oct. II at Detroit. The
last session of the council was held in
1874, at New Haven.
The Senate of the University of Lon
don has decided to apply to Parliament
for new charter to enable the univer-
sity to open all its degrees to women.
New Episcopal Bishops are declared
to be mperatively needed for both Idaho
and Montana; Utah being alone suffi-
cient to demand the entire energies of
any one Bishop.
The whole number of pilgrims to
Rome during the Pope's episcopal jubilee
was 1920. The largest number from
any one country was from France-6,0 1000.
The United States sent 500.
Rev. DR.. j. R. Hubbard, of Chicago,
has been appointed by the General Con-
vention of the New Jerusalem Church
Superintendent of Missions, and has re-
signed his pastorate to accept it.
The American Board of Foreign
Missions has received $4,000 less in
donations this year than last, and APP
peals for money to save itself from an
embarrassing debt"
There are S4S Anglican churches in
London, showing an increase of 22S in
the past decade. OF the whole number
80 have daily communion, 22S have daily
service, IS have eucharistic vestments,
10 use incense, So have altar lights, and
the eastward position is assumed in 1852.
Rev, J. NJ. Buckley, in sermon at
Connecticut camp-meeting, said "No
more painful observation can be made
upon the present condition of the entire
country-financial, social, industrial and
moral-than that there never was so
much dishonesty and so much religion"
AT the session of the Colorado
Methodist Conference, held in Denver
recently, resolution was offered re-
questing the Bishops to send to it moth
ing but able bodied men, and to give
each transferred minister trial of one
year, in order to test his ability to per
form frontier work.
The Methodist Church of Canada
has six annual and one quadrennial con-
ference. 1t has ten colleges in the Do
mlnion, with 1900 students, sustained at
an annual expenditure of $4,000. 1t
has a membership of 10000, and they
pay at the rate of $50 per member for
the support of missions.
:, "a ~ new devotional book of the Uni
versalists is entitled Mama" The ed
itor says that in preparing the work he
sifted the liturgies of all churches and
all ages of the church. The prayers en-
ploy the language of St. Chrysostum,
Theodore Parker, Hannah More, James
Martineau and other saints and laymen in
all denominations of the Christian
church.
The following lines were sung at a
colored camp.meeting in Berks County,
Pa, the other day:
Oh, who can tell dc sin see,
No one but de Lord an me,
Sing glory Hailelujah!
Afoatin' down de narrow stream,
o sin is milk, religion cream,
Sing glory Halelujah!
The St. Louis Globe Democrat de-
nounces the Rev. w. w. Boyd, lately in
Quoted to the pastorate of the Second
Baptist Church of that city, as clerical
slanderer, for saying that out of 100000
inhabitants of st. Louis "only about
10000 are Protestants. The rest are
Catholics and German Lutherans" The
statistics show that of 1859 churches in
that city 1877 are Protestant and AZ are
Catholic.
"A clergyman named McAll, lately
minister of an Independent Church in
England, is exerting a most remarkable
influence on the artisan class in Paris.
He and his wife visited that city in 1871,
to see it after the devastations of the
Communists. They speak French with
facility, and became much interested in
the working class, among whom they
distributed tracts, which were well re-
ceived. They gradually penetrated to
the heart of the artisan district, the hot
bed of Communism, and at length be-
came so deeply interested in ninistering
to the people there that Mr.. McAll re-
signed his church in England Ind has
settled in Paris. He has now established
halls for religious meetings, Sunday
schools, Bible classes, free. lending libra
ries, classes for sewing, etc. The public
authorities, who at first seemed sus-
picious, now smile on the work, and it
is not uncommon, when one Of Mr.. Nc
Ais new stations" is opened, to see
the Marie of the Commune, the Commits
saire of Police, ETC., on the platform.
During the summer Mr.. McAll has re-
ceived the medal of the Society for the
Encouragement of Beneficence. The
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