The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Boston has over 200 churches.

The Catholic press is discussing 8
proposition to establish an American
Catholic university.
There have been built by the Nj. f
Church, in the past ten years, 4,9SS new
churches, at cost of 100000, 600.
The churches of the Baltimore Con.
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church owe in the aggregate S4OO, 600
The annual conference of the Amish
Brethren, a branch of the Mennonites,
will be held at Eureka, ILL.,, beginning
June 9.
"A Kansas school committee prompt
ly rejected an applicant for teacher
position because he spelled humble bee
with an "h.''
"A hopeful minister says he has no
doubt that the time will come when the
members of church choir will behave
Just as well as other folks.
Of the 306 religious publications in
this country, 60 are Baptist, 81 Method
ist, 80 Presbyterian, 20 Lutheran, 20
Episcopal and 16 Congregational
A lady who has been on probation
for fifty years was received into full
membership in Methodist Church con-
nected with the Providence Conference,
not long ago.
Rev. j. U. Mitchell, of Dunferm-
line, Scotland, is the only regularly-or-
dained Universalst minister in the
United Kingdom, though there are sew
eral laymen doing missionary work.
1t appears from statements made
in the English independent that there
are already between $4,000 and 10000
Jewish CHI istians in Great Britain, of
whom 1870 are clergymen of the Estab-
lished Church.
Rev Bartholomew Otheman, of DuX-
bury, Mass, is eighty-two, and has
been preaching since 1914 in Methodist
Episcopal churches. He is the father
in-law of DR.. Abel Stevens, the eminent
Methodist writer.
The Anglican Bishops have been
considering, it is said, and are some
what alarmed about, the spread of the
Free Church movement in England, a
denomination allied to the Reformed
Episcopal Church of this country.
"A bill has passed the California
Senate, and will doubtless pass the As
sembly, to exclude the study of music
and foreign languages from all but the
most advanced public schools of the
State, and permitting the study of mu-
sic in the institution for the deaf and
dumb and blind.
High ritual is on the increase in
London. Thirty-nine churches now
celebrate the daily communion, against
IL last year; $40 have supplied choirs,
against ia; 30 have eucharistic vest
ments, against IA; 80 display candles
on the altar, and since 1867 the use of
incense has been extended from
churches to Is.
The Episcopalians of New York
and Brooklyn have organized the
Church Society for Promoting Chris
tianity among the Jews" Bishop Pot
ter is President and Bishop Littleiohn
and Dr. John Cotton Smith are Vice
Presidents. The society aims at mis-
sionary work throughout the country,
using New York as center of opera
tions.
Mr.. Moody has been warning the
good people of Springfield, Mass,
against theaters, card-playing, Freema-
sOnry, Odd-Fellowship, horse-racing,
novel-reading and business partner
ships, and marriage with unbelievers.
He hopes that the time will come when
ministers will preach against such mar
riages, and refuse to perform the cere-
monies, as Mr.. Spurgeon already does.
DR. w. M. Taylor expresses the
opinion in the Christian at Work that
topical preaching is responsible for the
short pastorates which are now so COM
mon in the United States. He reasons
out the process thus: "When one in
variably takes separate texts, the prob
ability is that these will all run in the
same direction and sound one note.
Every preacher has his idiosyncrasies,
and these will come out in his selec-
ton of his themes, so that in very
short time he will preach himself out.
He will ring the changes on few top
les until after time the people will
grow weary both of him and of them. :"
IN HIS VINEYARD.
There is never a way so narrow or short,
But the Masters work is there;
There is something to do for His dear sake,
Or something to calmly bear.
There are trials to meet with Christian faith,
And duties with Christian grace;
And there's Christian sweetness to every one,
To be showed in every place.
Their working days are never so hard
Who find in Chrsta stay;
And days Of darkness are days of light,
When Jesus leads the way.
And the waiting days of those who hope
Are days of quetness
And the praying days of those who trust
Are days of perfect peace.
There are howrets down in the valley low,
And over the mountain side,
Which were never praised by human voice
Nor by human eyes described.
Yet as sweet as the breath of the royal rose
Is the perfume they exhale;
And why they bloom, and where they bloom,
The good Lord knoweth well.
The Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott has
had what he naturally calls " the pleas.
ure" of spending Sunday in Vassar
College. He had curiosity to see how
the 300 girls conducted themselves dur.
ing their day of rest. Let me pre-.
mise" he writes, "that they are all un.
der one roof; that they dine in one large
hall; that they meet for daily prayers
in one good sized-chapel; that they
gather in lecture-rooms for Rotations
but that they live in groups of three OF