The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

teachers, who teach 480,0 children.
Teaching German in the st. Louis
schools is said to cost $4,000 a year.
Three colleges in New York city
graduated PIT new doctors in two DAYS
recently.
The Moravians have established a
college in Jamaica, w. L., for training
native teachers.
1t is said that there are 1000 men
seeking admission to the Methodist
conferences in this country.
The number of dioceses in the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States is forty-eight
The Canadian Baptists have ia
churches, of which 800 are in the Prov
inces of Ontario and Quebec.
The Reformed Episcopal Church
now numbers 100 clergymen and 100
parishes, and about 5000 communi-
cantS.
The University of London, which
has for some time admitted women to
medical degrees, now votes by large
majority Tin convoeation) to admit
them to all degrees.
"A wealthy Scottish PRESBYTERIAN
has subscribed $4,000 toward defray-
ing the expenses of suit to prevent
the establishment of Roman Catholic
hierarchy in Scotland.
The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets has decided in suit to recover a
church subscription that mere prom
Use to contribute without a consideration
cannot be enforced by law.
The Board of Education of the
Presbyterian Church has borrowed S.
600, and has only $500 in the treasury
There are 433 students looking for their
appropriations this month.
The Protestant missionaries in
Japan report more converts for 1877
than for any previous year since the
opening of the Empire, and much good
service has been rendered by native
helpers.
Three hundred students are now
attending Fisk University, of whom
half are boarders. Every Southern
State is represented, besides the States
of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan,
and Indiana.
The JeUtsh Times having challenged
the Independent to produce the names
of twenty-five converted Jews, the latter
accepts and gives list of forty-two
living in New York and Brooklyn.
Nine of the gentlemen named are in
orders.
The annual report of the Young
Mems Christian Association shows in
the United States forty-eight buildings,
free from debt, worth S1S,562, 900; for
ty-seven associations, with a building
fund amounting to $36S,000; $50 asso-
Citations with libraries, worth S142, 273.
Intelligent Freshman, Harvard
College: "Who was the wisest man?
Aw! what er yer givin us? Samson,
he wus; fur he had more brains in his
sleeves than the other college. He
pulled in ther race, didn't he? An he
pulled heavy, an don't yer forgit it. "
N. Y. Herald.
-"But, Paul, how can the spirit be
in us, and we in the spirit, at the same
time?" said the young man to vener-
able darkey. "Oh, dar's no puzzle
bout that. It's like dat poker; puts
it in de fire and it gets red-hot. Now,
de poker's in de fire an de fires in de
poker"
DIR. Angus, one of the English re-
visers of the New Testament, says that,
when the work is finished, its readers
will find the same Testament they have
been using from childhood; that, al
though there have been many changes,
chapter after chapter will be read with
out observing the changes unless by
comparison. 1t will be substantially
the same text and the same translation.
Since the establishment of the
hierarchy in Great Britain in 1851, the
Roman Catholic Church has grown
there rapidly. There are now in the
United Kingdom 2,157 priests, 1884
chapels and stations, 129 religious
houses of men, and 318 houses of wom-
en-. Of the 907 resident episcopal sees
in the whole Roman Catholic Church,
126 are in the British Empire. The
whom 26 have seats in the House of
Lords. There are also 4S Roman Caths
Ole baronets, 6 Catholic members of
the Privy Council, and 81 Catholic
Members of Parliament.
THE ARM OF FLESH.
The Now lay mel has been said;
My darling in her couch is laid;
| stoop among the pillows white
For one last kiss-one more " goodnight"
But clinging arms around me cast,
And close caresses hold me fast;
"Oh, mamma" childish accents say
son, mamma, please don't go away!
:" / am so 'fraid when you are gone!
l cannot, cannot stay alone!
The dark-is also very-queer-
Oh, please stay wifi me, mamma dear"
Snow, darling God is ever night
His child is safe beneath His eye.
Perhaps He sends His angels bright
To watch about your couch tonight!
"You know you never are alone,
For God is with us every one;
And He will keep us safe from harm
AS If you lay on mammals arm"
eyes; God is here, know, close by"
With quivering lips she makes reply,
"But, mamma, dear!" sobs out afresh,
81 Ike to feel a little .feshr
0 God how oft Thy Bonded ear
That cry from human hearts doth hear!
Thou wouldst Thyself our souls refresh,
We beg to "feel little fesh!"
We want no visitant of grace,
We want some dear-loved human face.
Though Everlasting Arms be strong,
IT'S for the arm of flesh we long!