The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Chinese tongue is to be taught
at Harvard.
There are 5000 Scandinavian Bap-
lists in the United States. .-t
There are 100000 Sundav-school
teachers and 100000 scholars in En-
gland.
The Baptists have completed the
endowment of$100, 900 for Shurtleff Col
lege.
Harvard has 112 scholarships, with
incomes varying from $40 to $3.50 a
year.
Six hundred missionaries have died
IN India, and the present number there
is about 600.
There are 1877 Lutheran churches
30 ministers and $4,000 members in the
State of Virginia.
-Girard College has been enlarged
so as to accommodate 900 students, and
Is now open to non-residents.
According to the EUdnqeHst more
than $4,000 were added last year to the
Presbyterian Church in the North.
"A young girl named Minnie Gaff
has begun preaching in LAFAYETTE
County, Mo. She is religious enthu-
siast.
The University of Pennsylvania
now admits women as special students
IN history, physics, chemistry and
music.
There are in the Roman Catholic
Church of religious orders SO, of mo-
nastic orders 10, and of menQicant or
ders IA.
Moody and Sankey are referred TO
by the Paris GauLOiS as "the founders
OF new religion that enjoys certain
vogue in the United States.
The colored school-teachers Of Mis-
souri, held a convention in st. Louis re-
Gently. They demand the same educa-
tional facilities that the whites have.
California has a school population
of 200,067. The number in the public
schools is 1875, 1886 and the average at
tendance is 1888. There are 3,167
teachers, 1888 of whom are women.
Moody has a church in Chicago of
which he is nominally pastor, and to
which he says he may, few years
hence, entirely devote himself. The
house and ground cost SS4, 900 and are
entirely paid for.
Congregational clerical tables for
1877 show that there have been 1873 or
dinations, So dismissals and 80 deaths
The average age of deceased ministers
was 81 years. The number of churches
organized was 81.
The number of Germans in the Ro-
'nth Al.
estimated at 1887, $50 laymen and 1913
priests. Ohio has the greatest number
of all the States, Wisconsin standing
second and New York third
"A resolution calling for the aboli-
ton of Freemasonry on the grounds
of its being adverse to republican in
situations and a practical imposition
upon the Christian religion, was adopt
ed by the Committee on Resolutions
appointed by the Christian Convention
which met at New Wilmington, Pa,
last month.
The Dunkards are taking a new
departure. AT a general meeting held
at Myersdale, Pa, recently, they
organized 1.-The Brethren Church En-
tension Union,n the first society of |
the kind the denomination has ever |
had The purpose of the union is to
organize and extend the home-mission
work of the denomination by sending
out missionaries and ministers. The
secretary is to be a salaried officer,
which is an innovation.
The following statistics of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church are given in
the Church Almanac" for 1873: Bish-
ops, 81; priests and deacons, 3,216;
baptisms, As, 1877; combinations, 29,179;
communicates, 281, 977 marriages, TO-
122; burials, q, 1897; candidates for orders
337; NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 1874; priests,
106; Sunday-school teachers, 29,54S;
scholars, 275, 01S; contributions, Sc, 1884,
278. Comparing these statistics with
those of 1876, there is an increase
in favor of 1877 of 1000 baptisms,
5000 combinations, $4,000 commune
Giants, 600 marriages, 1880 burials, 6
candidates for orders, 80 ordinations,
5000 Sunday-school teachers, 10000
scholars and $1,000 in contributions.
Sixteen clergymen have been deposed
and Ga have died.
The following table is given of Meth
odist statistics throughout the world: