The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


only pleasure that never wears out.
The faculty of Belloit College will
not permit students to attend dancing
school.
The Cherokee Indian Baptist Asso-
citation has l 100 members, against 763
last year.
The first Japanese pastor, ordained
in January last, is supported entirely
by his own congregation.
OF the $780, 900 Canadians who are
members of church, 1900 900, it is es-
timated, are Roman Catholics.
Marriage is becoming fashionable
among the Catholic priests of Germany,
the civil law protecting them.
Nashville has not enough schools
for colored pupils; 200 have applied in
vain Tor admission to the schools.
for the 2Sth of June, at New London.
Prof. A. M. Wheeler, of Yale, referee.
In 1850 the Catholic Bishops in the
United States held S9,000,000 worth of
property. They now hold $40, 600, 900.
There are twenty-five female stu
dents in the Woman's Laboratory of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Mr.. Moody says there are many
water-logged' Christians, and it takes
all the strength of the church to tow
them into heaven.
In Michigan the public schools
have an attendance of $50, 264. Male
teachers receive average salaries of
S42.54 per month.
The new Episcopal diocese of
Quincy, H., has chosen the Rev. Alex
ander Burgess, of Springfield, Mass,
for its first Bishop.
The Free Thinkers of Chicago pro-
pose to build vast temple to free
thought, in which discourses are to be
delivered by Bob Ingersoll and others.
One of the written questions at
recent school examination was: "What
is a relative pronoun?" One of the an
swers was: at is pronoun that tells
about your relatives
The Bible College, located at Bing-
hamton, N. Y, which affords a free
university course to the daughters of
disabled or deceased ministers, without
regard to sect, is full to overlooking.
The authorities of Monmouth Qll)
College are determined to abolish all
secret societies in the institution, and
threaten fifty students of both sexes
with expulsion if they don't at once
disband.
The California Khina Mission, con-
Quoted by Congregationalists, received
last year 81, 1870 per cent. in advance
of its receipts any previous year. Be-
sides this, $4,000 came from the Amer
lean Missionary Society,
Not many ministers hold mort
gage on their meeting houses. But the
Rev. w. H. Cudworth, the minister of
the Unitarian Church in East Boston,
does upon his, the amount being $751;
600
Prof Alexander Hogg, of the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
proposes that the Government should
appropriate certain amount of public
lands in each State for the maintenance
of higher educational institutions for
women.
-Spurgeon's church in London is
one of the largest-if not the largest
churches in the world. 1t has 5,045
members, of whom 296 were received
by baptism the past year, the net gain
being 100. Next year Mr.. Spurgeon
will have completed the twenty-fifth
year of his passionate of the church, and
a celebration of the event is to take
place.
Mr.. Moody told his Springfield
audience the other night that he can
tell on looking over congregation the
believers by the expression of their
faces. Then he told them a story about
a poor woman, who, hearing rap,
thought it was the landlord come to de-
mand the rent. She refused to answer,
and thus turned away a friend who
wished to give her money. The audi
ence laughed at this, but Moody stopped
them abruptly by crying: "You laugh
at that woman, but it was you, your
self, sinner"
An English clergyman relates that
two English sisters had an audience
with the late Pope Plus X, and as
they were Withdrawing one of them
fingered. The Pope asked her what
she wished, and she, being a convert to
the Roman Catholic faith, answered.:
1.-The prayers of your Holiness that my
sister may be converted from Protest
antism, so that we may not be sepa-
rated after death" The Pope, placing
his hand upon her clasped hands as she
knelt, answered.: Daughter, those
who love God will not be separated in
the next world"
Concentration of our scattered edu-
cational forces, fewer and better schools,
are wanted by the Educational Monthly.
"It is great injury" it says, 4" to the
cause of education that every corpora
ton and every church can found as
many colleges as they please, receive
donations, call professors, elect a presi-
dent, graduate students, confer all
literary and theological degrees, and
after all, have only name, and al
most nothing more. 1t can only be by
the concentration of money, men,
books and museums that truly great
and useful schools can be established.
There is great value and great inspira-
ton in truly great university"