The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Chinese girl.
The Lutheran churches in the
United States have 1900 Sunday
schools, with 100000 scholars.
+Of the one hundred and siXty-seven
Congregational churches in Vermont
only sixty have regular pastors.
To every 800 persons in this country
there is one minister, while in India
there is not one minister to 100000
At Jamaica, Vt, a town with an
almost exclusively American popula-
ton, there are 112 families that never
attend church, and fourteen that have
no Bible.
The American Baptist missionary
in Ongole, India, baptized between
June 16 and July 81, eighty-siX hun
bred and ninety-one converts from
Hindooism.
The clergymen sent to Cyprus by
the English Society for the Propaga-
ton of the Gospel, were instructed to
work with the priests of the Greek
Church already on the island
1t has been determined by the
Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Michigan not to call special conven-
ton for the election of Bishop. This
leaves the matter open until June next.
Sunday schools have been MAIN
tanned in Palestine since 1909 by the
London Society for Promoting Chris
tianity among the Jews, and more than
a thousand children have attended
them.
-Monseigneur Dupanloup of Orleans,
in pastoral letter, says that contribu-
tons to Peters pence are as necessary
as in the days of Plus TX, the Holy
Sea being cut off from its rightful
revenues.
The affairs of Juggernaut are to
be given to the management of the
Court of Wards, the English Govern
ment having imprisoned for life, on the
charge of murder, the hereditary pro-
tector Of the god.
The Catholic AdUOcate claims that
the Church has made considerable prog
ress among the negroes of the South,
and that there are fiourishing colored
churches of that faith in several of the
principal cities of the South.
There are several isolated bodies of
Free Baptists in this country, the
largest of which is the Freewill branch
in New England and the West. There
is now movement toward union of
all these bodies. 1t is not improbable
that national convention will be called
in year or two to effect this object.
The largest Sunday school in the
world is probably at Stockport, Chester
County, England, a town with a popu-
lation of only 1904. The school
building cost 100000 and has between
so and 80 teaching-rooms. Since the
institution was opened 5,0S5 teachers
have been employed and 80, 804 scholars
have registered.
Persons afflicted with sleepiness in
church perhaps may wish for the rem
edy therefor devised by one John Ridge
who, in the year 1925, left to his native
parish in Shropshire the sum of twenty
shillings yearly that man might be
employed to 90 about the church and,
with wand, awaken all sleepers by
tapping them smartly on the head.
The report of the American Board
states that ten missionaries died during
the wear, Is retired from the service,
IS visited this country for rest and re-
cuperation and health, q returned to
their different fields of labor, and 80
others will leave in few weeks, leaving
less foreign missionaries at home in
connection with the board than for
many previous years; 10 new mission
f11rIn hn
including five Representatives of the
Woman's Board.
Among the answers to the usual
queries asked at the annual meetings
Of the Friends is one concerning dis
tinctive dress and language. The ans
wer to this at the Richmond, Indiana,
yearly meeting was "Some deficiency
in regard to dress and language" a
deficiency that is becoming more
and more apparent every year. The
statistical report showed that there are
17,44S members, of whom more than
one-third are under q years of age.
There are 122 established meetings and
1877 recorded ministers. During the
year ia members resigned and 112
were disowned
The Catholic episcopate stands thus
as to numbers in 1873: Whole number
of bishops, 1,127. Two of them have
held the office over half a century-Dr.
McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, since
1925, and Monsignor D'Argenteau, of
Belgium, since 1926; 77were appointed
by Gregory XVI, 1,02S by Plus TX; 80
have been created by the present Pope,
Leo XIII. Nine cardinals, patriarchs,
AZ archbishops, and 1874 bishops belong
to the religious orders. The Francis
cans have the most bishops--43; then
follow the Dominicus with 2S, the Ben
edictines with "a, the Augustines and
Conventuals with 16. The Company
Of Jesus numbers 5000 members.
OF its works in Polynesia, the Lon
don Missionary Society says: THE 20
islands under our charge, with their
$4,000 inhabitants, have all been Chris
tanned, native churches and congrega-
tions have everywhere been established,
and, as in older Christian countries, in
each group an institution is maintained
for the education of a proper native
ministry, and the employment and sup
port of all Christian ordinances is
thrown entirely upon the converts them
selves. The uperintendance of the
churches, ministers. and members is