The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


lar college classes of Colby University
in Maine.
"A Methodist church in Knoxville
Tenn, bears the remarkable name OF
1.-The Parson Brownlow Church."
Ex-senator Revels, of Mississippi
now pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church at Richmond, Ind,
has had stroke of paralysis.
The Mexican State of Michoacan
has 304 free schools in operation, and an
order has been issued by the Govern
ment for the opening of 260 more.
Methodist papers make an earnest
appeal for Garrett Biblical Institute,
their theological school in Illinois. 1t
must be closed unless generous help is
given it.
The Bible has been printed in
thirty different languages for the bene-
fit of the aborigines of this country, and
of Greenland, British America, and
Mexico.
Telephones are to be put into every
grammar school in New Haven to es-
tablish communication with the high
school building. If they work salts
factory they will become permanent.
The American Board repo rts tina
it has now in the field 300 missionaries
from this country and LOO native
helpers. 1t has $4,000 members in its
churches, of whom 1000 were added
last year.
The Universalists of this country
report $50 parishes, embracing 42,029
families, 656 church organizations with
1924 members, FOG ministers, and a
church property above Indebtedness of
81, 465, 495.
The salaries of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church are $4,000
each per annum, and an allowance for
book agents, and official editors, at
New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis.
The Republic of Honduras is about
to introduce the American free school
system. In its Capital, Camavagua, a
national college is to be established, and
Commissioner has been sent to this
country to obtain books and teachers.
The colored Baptists of the South
are trying to help themselves to bet
ter education. They are making eff
forts to establish school to educate
their preachers in Louisville, KY, and
a theological seminary in Alabama.
The fifty-second General Confer
ence of the Maine Congregational
Churches was held at Auburn, June
1926. The statistics reported were:
244 churches, q, PA members, 20,849
Sunday-school scholars; total contribu-
tons, $24,886.
Gov. Robinson, of New York,
stated that the money raised by taxa
ton for the schools of the State amounts
to much more than double the sum re-
quired to pay the entire expenses of
the State Government, Executive, Leg
islative, Judicial, Civil and Military"
The Canada Presbyterian Church
reports the receipt of S45,067 in the
past year, for home missions. The ex-
penditures were $51,857. There are
12O missions, 1855 preaching stations,
102 churches, and 400 communicates.
Aid Is also given to about 120 congre-
cations.
The various boards of the Reformed
Dutch) Church received the following
contributions the past year: Board of
Education, $19, 1903; Board of Domestic
Missions, 1927 ,542; Board of Publica-
ton, $l7,419; Church building fund,
$5,S02; Board of Foreign Missions,
$69,085.
The Hon. Alfred Colquitt and
Bishop Pierce have been appointed
delegates from the Methodist Episcopal
Church South to the Canada Methodist
General Conference, which meets at
Montreal next September. Revision
of the hymn book will be one of the
important subjects for discussion.
The past may be compared to a
great, ever-ascending pyramid, to
which each generation has added lay
er or stratum, as it energies into the
light of the present, may see further
than its predecessor. Education is in
every age more difficult than the pre-
ceding. But the reward increases in
exact proportion to the labor; the high
er the pyramid to be assembled, the
wider the prospect to be obtained.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey are ex-
pected in Baltimore next winter to
prosecute their mission as evangelists,
under the auspices of the Young Men $
Christian Association. Mr.. Moody has
lately visited Baltimore to make the
necessary arrangements, which, it is
said, will not include an expensive tab
ernacle. Their work will be done in
districts throughout the city. MIR.
Moody is now holding revival services
at Mortified, Mass, his summer home.
The fourteenth annual session of
the State Sunday-school Convention of
Indiana was held at Indianapolis June
1921 The statistics reported were as
follows: Number of Sunday-schools
in the State, 1866; officers and teach
ers, SO, 357; average attendance. 217, 1882;
contributions of schools, $15, 434, an
increase over last year of $4,000. The
necessity of teaching the children in
the almshouses, whose numbers were
said to be nearly 10000, was one of
the topics discussed.
"A "mass-meeting of Christians at
Philadelphia and vicinity" held last
week, Bishop Simpson presiding, pass
ed resolutions calling on the Mayor to
enforce the law of 1894, which binds
individuals, societies and corporations
to abstain from worldly business upon