The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A student at the Toronto Univer-
sity, fourth-year man undergoing an
examination for honors, was found to
have secured copy of the questions.
He was set back two years.
The Catholic University at Louvain
began in 1888 with eighty-six students,
and now has an annual total of from
1900 to 1900. During its existence il
has had $4,000 names on its list.
The Northern Methodist Church
has more than doubled itself in the past
ten years. In 1865 it had 12,303 mem
bers and PA churches; now it has more
than $4,000 members and 375 churches.
Rev. w. H. H. Murray, of Boston,
has decided to give himself years va
cation. He is not sick, and his church
is in the most flourishing condition.
But he wants Il long rest while he can
enjoy it.
Reports of the churches throughout
the South show more than usually en-
couraging state of things. Though not
in many instances marked by remarka-
BILE revivals, there has been in most a
hopeful and vigorous growth.
Chicago school-teachers have re-
ceived no money since January, and,
though their salaries have been re-
duced 25 per cent, they are now offered
city scrip for their February wages, for
which brokers will give but So per cent.
The spirit of insubordination preva-
lent among the colleges has smitten the
students of st. Johns at Annapolis,
Nd, and they have filled Mcdowell
hall with hay by night because the fac
ulty refused to allow them to hold ball
there, though their arrangements were
already made.
One of the great and lamentable
mistakes of many pastors is in not
weaving in" something for the chill
dren at every public Sunday service.
As a rule, every part of every service
is beyond their reach, whether it be the
praying, reading, singing or preaching.
-EEanli11er and Chronicle.
The American Baptist Publication
Society, in its tifty-fourth report, states
that the receipts have fallen off, being
last year S304,610. Twenty-Five publ
cations were issued, of which Il, 900
copies were printed. The publication
of the Baptist Quarterly had to be dis
continued for want of proper support.
The object of the Protestant Epis-
copal Free Church Association is to dis
courage the practice of selling and rent
ing pews in churches; help is given to
feeble parishes that adopt the free seat
system. There are now 2S5 clerical, 10
life and 126 annual members and con-
tributors. Twenty-one of the Bishops
of the church are patrons.
The Pope has directed Cardinal
Franchi to dispatch urgent instructions
to the Catholic clergy of Germany to
use every effort to prevent the spread
of Socialism. His Holiness has also
had long conference on the subject
with Cardinal Ledochowski, Arch
bishop of Posen, to obtain exact infor-
nation respecting the Socialists in Ger
many.
The school population of South
Carolina is 22S, 1913; of this number 144,-
315 are colored. The school attend
ance during the past year was 102, 396
-colored, 55,952. There are 2,4S3
public schools, employing LIPS white
and 949 colored teachers. The aver
age salaries of the male teachers were
$2S32 per month; of female teachers,
$26S7. Of the 1926, 020 expended upon
the schools, 100000 was appropriated
by the State, and "a, 100 was bestowed
from the Peabody Education Fund.
Bishop McLaren reported to the
Diocesan Convention of Illinois that he
had confirmed the past year 465 per-
sons, making the whole number during
his episcopate of two years and half,
$500. In his address he refers to the
laXity of morals and atheism which ex-
list, and said one cause was to be found
in the teachings of smooth-tongued
pulpit orators, who have rung the
changes on the word love- until they
have given the idea that God cannot
discriminate between right and wrong"
The Diocesan Convention of Ken
lucky was rather SHINY attended this
year, only fifteen parishes being repre-
sented. The annual meeting will here
after be known as the Council in
stead of the Convention" Bishop
Dudley reported that he had confirmed
1856 persons and ordained two deacons.
The convention condemned fairs and
festivals and concerts to raise money
for church purposes, and gave special
condemnation to "the practice, of
which it has heard with pain, of such
festivals, held with the unseemly addi-
ton of dancing, and often the sinful
accompaniment of gambling"
A CHURCH IN RUINS.
Thou art crumbling to the dust, old pile;
Thou art fastening to thy fall
And around thee in thy loneliness
Clings the ivy to the wall.
The worshipers are scatter'd now
Who met before thy shrine,
And silence reigns whe anthems rose
In days of ole lang syne.
And rudely signs the wandering wind,
Where oft, in years gone by,
Prayer rose from many hearts to Him,
The highest of the high
The tramp of many a busy foot
Which sought thy aisles is DER,
And many weary heart around
Is stilid for evermore.
How oft ambitions hope takes wing!
How drOop the spirits now
We hear the distant city's din
The dead are mute below.
The sun which shone upon their paths
Now gilds their lonely graves:
The zephyr which once fann'd their brovs
The grass above them waves.