The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-14
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Methodist Episcopal Sunday Schools
are officially reported at 10, 687 Teach
ers and officers, 2OS, 966 Scholars,
1,453, 083
The Missions CGthOIigue says that in
1875 there were 10,30 conversions in
Asia from heathenism to the Roman
Catholic faith.
The FreeWill Baptists of New York
State have been invited to unite with the
Congregationalists, and are likely to do
so. They number about 10000.
The Rev. d S. G. Buckingham. OF
Springfield, Mass, completed the thir-
tieth year of his passionate of the South
Congregational Church of that city few
days ago
The United Presbyterian Church in
Scotland has succeeded in raising the
minimum stipend of its ministers to goo,
or $1,000, per annum, and manse, or
$50 (SlO0) in lieu of a manse
The Spiritualists, unlike all other
sects, do not erect churches or provide
regular public worship. They have but
one church in this country. This is in
Willimantic, Conn.
An Old Catholic priest was married
May p in the Old Catholic Church at
Breslau. The officiating priest dwelt in
his sermon on the importance of this
step for the Old Catholic movement.
The gains Of the Church of the United
Brethren during the last year were
1928 members, 252 places of worship,
and $4,000 Sunday school scholars. This
church has ten colleges and Biblical
seminary
Bishop Miles, of the "Colored M. E.
Church of America" is to make lecture
tour in the North during the summer,
for the purpose of raising money for
school interests of his church in Louis
vile, Ky, and Sardis, Miss.
The cornerstone of "The Peoples
Church" Boston, has recently been
laid. The church will be the largest
place of worship in this country, having
seating capacity of 5000. The church
is Protestant, but of no particular sect.
One hundred and four out of 175
presbyteries of the Northern Presbyte-
rian Church report 481, 522 church mem.
bers. The other 81 presbyteries are es-
timated to have Al, 222 members, making
the total membership of the church
524,744.
The orator of Glass Day at Brown
University, Providence, r. this year
was colored youth named Irman Ed
ward Brown He was chosen by the vote
of his classmates. The honor is es-
teemed the highest one that can be
gained in college.
AT the State Convention of Rhode
Island Universalsts there were reported
to be in the State 7S9 families in connec-
ton with the churches, 500 members
and 100000 of church property. The
increase for the year was twenty. one
families and eighteen members.
The graduating class of Adrian Col
1ege thus celebrated itself:
We've l who will heal, will heal the ills of
flesh,
And who intend to teach;
While 2, alas! will be limbs of the law,
And 90 out to preach.
Miss Jenny North, the valedictorian
at the commencement of Bates College,
Maine, is the youngest member of the
class, and the first woman who has been
graduated with the highest honors by
any New England college admitting both
sexes.
The agricultural department of Dart
mouth has just sent out thirteen gradu-
ates. 1t is said to be in a flourishing con-
dition. The standard for admission is
constantly being raised 1t is proposed
in short time to increase the number of
years required to complete the course
from three years to four.
Schools among the Indians seem to
be tiourishing. In the school at the Co
manche Agency there are sixty-tive pu-
pills, and at the Wichita Agency there
are ninety. If there were better accom-
modations the number would be greater
in both these schools. Reports come
also of the tourishing condition of the
schools at the Cheyenne, Arrapahoe,
Kansas and Quapaw Agencies.
The Boston Pilot classifies the gifts
presented to the Pope during the recent
jubilee as follows: From France, 1920
900; the United States, $3.50, 600; Ireland,
$13O,O00; Italy, $120 600; Spain, $780,
600, England, 100000; Austria, So
600; South America, $75, 600; Germany,
$4,000; Belgium, $53 600; Portugal, |
$4,000; Australia, $75, 900; Canada,
$4,000; Holland, $4,000; Scotland,
10000; Switzerland, $50, 1000.
AT recent meeting of New York
Baptist ministers, one of them said that
the way he got up sermon was to pick
out text, look at it, then climb on top
of it, then go down on the other side and
all around it and under it, and then try
and go through it. " If it is so hard"
said he, that l can't go through it, l
drop it and put it to soak. ! tell you
Eve found good many hard texts. l
have had some of them a-soak for five or
six years and they're not soft enough yet
for me to go through them"
The Rev DR.. Mcleod relates in his
journal that he once received from two
intending communicates the following re-
plies to the following questions:
Who led the children Of Israel out of
Egypt Five.
Who was Eve ?-The mother of God.
What death did Christ die? After a long
time came the answer-He was hanged on
a tree.
What did they do with the body ?--Laid it
in a Manager.