The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Congregationalists. the Pres
byterians, the Baptists and the Episco-
palians of Central New York, are tax
ing action antagonistic to the Oneida
Community. IfTgH ..-T..
The Trustees of Andover Theolog-
zeal Seminary, at their meeting Nov. t,
elected DR., John p. CULVER, of Bing-
hamton, to the new chair of Christiani-
ty and Science.
! A branch of the Mennonites, called
Evangelical Mennonites, has decided to
eXpel from the church any member who
gets his life insured. Two ministers,
refusing to be governed by the rule,
have been communicated.
The Primitive Methodist Church of
England gave last year an average of
one dollar per member for missionary
purposes. This was more than the
average of any other church, though it
is numbered among the poorest.
The First Congregational Church
of Providence has just celebrated its one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Dur
ing the century and half of its exist
ence the church has had but eight pas
tors, and has never had dissension.
Only few of the colleges have sat
isfactory endowments. Even Yale has
but 100000. But education is cheap
in nearly all our institutions, except as
unnecessary expenses are incurred in
keeping something apart from what is
legitimate.
1t is considered more than proba-
bic that the new plan of reduced repre-
sentation in the Presbyterian General
Assembly will be approved by major
ity of the Presbyteries. Thus far ~
Presbyteries have voted-27 affirmative
ly and Is negatively,
At the recent meeting of the Meth
odist Bishops in New York City, it was
reported that not one of the 10000
preachers appointed during the year
declined to go where he was sent, and
not a single congregation refused to re-
ceive the preacher sent by the Bishops
DIR. Hitchcock, of Amherst, be-
stirred by the remark that there is an
excess of professional men, has COM
piled a table showing that, while in the
years 1900 to 1904 the proportion of
Massachusetts college boys to the whole
population was sc, this ratio was only
80 in the years 1886.
Five English ladies of fortune and
position are about to take the veil.
They are Lady Edith Noel, daughter of
the Earl of Gainsborough; Hon. Con-
stance Howard, sister of the Marchion-
ess of Butte; two daughters of Hon. Max
well Stuart, and the youngest daughter
of Mr.. Blount, of Mapledurham.
After the first of the coming month
the faculty of the Yale School of fine
Arts will receive pupils who wish to en-
ter the school for special instruction
and for a short term of not less than
three months. These pupils will be
distinguished from those in regular
course, and will be termed especial
students"
Among the sad cases of bereave-
ment by the yellow fever in the South
is that of Rev. +. NJ. Featherstone, Pre-
siding Elder of the Jackson District of
the Mississippi Methodist Conference.
He saw almost his entire family perish
in a few days with the disease. OF a
family of ten only two remain, himself
and his widowed daughter.
The great revival in India among
the Teloogoos still continues. Thus
far over 10000 have been baptized by
the Baptist Missionaries since the mid
die Of June, and it is believed that the
number of converts will reach 10000 by
Christmas. In view of the unprece-
dented increase the Baptist Missionary
Union asks for S25,0 to reinforce the
mission.
Rev. S. H. Reynolds, Vicar of East
Ham, England, has created some ex-
element among his parishioners by his
resolve that, in future, weddings are to
be celebrated in the middle of divine
service. On recent Sunday Mr.. Rey
nolds conducted the first wedding on
the new principal Immediately after
the second lesson, the service having
to be suspended for more than twenty
minutes.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps having
been asked to write a creed for union
church, prepared the following: 81
believe that God so loved the world thai
He gave His only Son, that whatsoever
believeth on Him shall not perish, but
shall have everlasting life.' Added tc
this is covenant pledging the sub
scriber ''to befriefd the poor, to guard
the tempted, to uplift the outcast, to be
tender in treatment of all meek and en-
dangered souls Nl.u 3 b'if i...'h
The missionaries of the Anglican
and American Churches insJapan have
held a conference and resolved to have
but one Book of Common Prayer fol
the use of japanese Christians. The
Morning and Evening Prayer and Lit
any which had been prepared was au
thorized and committee was appoint
ed to translate and publish the Office
for Communion, Baptism and Confr
nation and the Catechism. 1t has alst
been decided to establish a joint the
illogical school. ~
Emma Buckley, of Shurtleff Col
lege, at Alton, Ill, recently carried of
the medal offered as prize in the STATE
intercollegiate oratorical contest at Leb
anon, against the combined opposi
ton of Knox, Monmouth, Champaign
Illinois, Bloomington and Mckenzie,
! Colleges. When she returned home ;
grand parade was arranged in he
honor, the procession being headed b,