The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


lated into Servian.
Oakland, Cal has Chinese Presby-
terrain Church with twenty-nine men,
bers.
The library of Howard College now
consists of 100000 volumes and pam
phlets.
In the primary schools of Boston,
instruction will henceforth be almost
entirely oral.
The total gifts and endowments to
the colleges during the past year is more
than 81, 100000.
Prof. w. d. Whitney, of Yale Col
lege, is about to publish Sanskrit
grammar in Europe.
The income from the Peabody fund
to promote educational work in the
South has fallen off 40 per cent.
A great missionary conference is to
be held in England this fall, beginning
Oct. q and continuing six days.
The Lutherans have in Illinois $40
ministers, $50 churches, and $4,000
communicates, which are divided among
ten Synods.
The Moravians are calling upon
their 200, 900 members to make up a de-
ticiency of $4,000 in their Foreign
Mission Fund.
Petersburg, Va. has colored
church of 5000 members. 1t dates
back a hundred years, and with but one
exception is the largest church in the
South.
Miss Mary B. Palmer, formerly a
teacher in the South Hadley Mass
schools, has Just sailed for Africa,
where she will spend her days as mis-
sionary. Q
A church in Vermont has demand
ed and received its pastors resignation
on the ground that he cuffed his wife S
ears for driving some chickens out of
the dining-room, where he was feeding
them with dough.
About 100000 copies of the Scrip
lures have been given away from the
Bible stand in the Paris Exposition.
These copies were in twenty-five Ian
guages. 1t is the purpose to distribute
about 10000 more.
"A large number of miraculous cures
are reported of the pilgrims to the
shrine at Lourdes, France. One wom-
an had paralysis, heart disease, and Il
large wen on her cheek. OF all these
she was cured instantaneously. .-.
In population of 1000, 900 in Tex
as there are about 260, 900 church mem
bers. OF these $4,000 are Baptists, 1O9,-
terians, 1000 are Campbellites, 5000.
are Lutherans, and 10, 900 are Catholics.
In some of the German rural
regions of Pennsylvania, there are
Lutheran pastors who serve four, five,
six, and seven congregations, and there
are two who serve eight. One charge
has a membership, it is reported, of
1,726.
There are now l, 127 Bishops in the
Roman Catholic Chuch. OF this number
II are appointees of Gregory XVI, l.
OPS of Plus X, and 80 of Leo XIII.
OF the prelates, 43 are Franciscans, %
Dominicans, "a Benedictines, and 10
Augustinians and Conventuals.
In churchyard in London is q
tombstone with this inscription: "Here
lies Sarah Smithers, the loved wife of
Thomas Smithers, marble-cutter. This
monument was erected as a tribute to
her memory and as specimen of his
art. Monuments of the same style,
S25 each"
The Cumberland Presbyterian
Church is engaged in considering plans
for reducing the size of its General AS
sembly. At the meeting at Lebanon,
Tenn, there were 204 commissioners,
and it was Immediately resolved to
begin the work of reduction, and this
with great unanimity.
The first steps have been taken in
st. Petersburg to form a society for the
purpose of providing educational tours
for children. 1t is proposed to send
out companies of the children every
year, and also parties of young men
and women when they have completed
their course in the secondary schools or
are following out their studies in the
high schools.
The first Lutheran church in
Pennsylvania was built in Delaware
County, in 1916, long after the present
limits of Fittsburg were entered. An
old block-house at Wicacoa served for
awhile as house of worship, and in
100, Gloria Der church was dedicated
Altogether, there were at least six of
these churches ministered to for over a
century and three-quarters, by a sue
cession of thirty-five pastors, all of
them men of strong faith and eminent
devotion, the last of whom died in 1881
They were presided over by Provosts,
of whom the most prominent were the
historians Acrelius and Won Wrangel.
The Congregationalists are plan
ming large educational enterprises for
the far West. They have a college in
Colorado, and this has been selected as
a pivot on which the new educational
movement is to turn. Two professors
have been elected in the college, who
are to be employed chiefly as principals
of academies-one in Salt Lake City,
the other in Santa Fe. Professor E. A.
Benner goes to Salt Lake City and
Rev. Charles r. Bliss to Santa Fe. The
academies are to be of high class,
and are to be feeders of the college for
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