The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

AS result of recent revival in
the colored churches of Richmond, Va,
2,o41 persons were baptized on one
day.
The Scriptures employ striking i'm
agerv. The righteous man is like a
"living, tirmly-rooted, wide-spreading,
never-fading, sweet-smelling tree"
The Queen has become interested
in the prosecutions for ritualism, and
has ordered the papers in the Mackan-
ochie case to be sent to her for perusal.
Seventy per cent. has been fixed as
the average for graduation from the
Chicago High Schools and the passage
of pupils from one department to an
other
The First Presbyterian Church of
Buffalo sends its pastor and family to
Europe this summer, furnishing through
tickets for all and $1,000 for spending
money.
The Massachusetts Congregational
lists report net increase of 3,65S men,
bers, being the largest gain in many
years. The total membership in the
State is 9l,131.
Man can easily destroy himself
either temporarily, physically or spirit
ually; but it is not in man to save him
self from the spiritual destruction he
has wrought. Moody.
Prof. Barbour, of Yale College,
will pass the greater part of the sum-
mer preaching in Boston. He is ac-
counted by Bostomans the ablest SER
monizer that goes into their pulpits.
The Presbyterian Church, South,
expresses its disapproval of Mr.. Moody
and other unordained preachers by
adopting a report strongly condemning
lay preaching as contrary to the Word
of God.
None shall be saved by Christ but
those only who work out their own sal
walton while God is working in them by
His truth and His Holy Spirit. We
cannot do without God, and God will
not do without us.-M0Ody.
The missionary collections in the
different charges at Indianapolis will
be an advance on last year. We hope
the same is true in the charges of our
patronizing conferences, as the annual
sessions of each are near at hand.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey are ex-
pected to spend part of next winter in
Baltimore. Arrangements have already
been made for their work. The city is
to be divided into two districts, but no
special building will be erected for
them.
The New Orleans University, a
fourishing institution built up by the
Methodist Freedman's Aid Society, has
had an attendance of over one hundred
students the past year 1t has five de-
partments, including theology and
music.
AT the recent commencement of
Rochester University, twin brothers,
John f. and Geo. NJ. Forbes, received
the 500 prize of the Sherman and
Townsend scholarship, to be divided
equally between them. They also re-
ceived the Davis prize medals for ora
tory, one worth $50 and the other $50.
The German and Switzerland con-
ferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church held its twenty-third annual
session this year at Basic, closing June
Goth. Bishop Bowman presided. An
increase of 800 members was reported.
This conference is branch of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of this
country.
The sanitary condition of the New
York public schools is Just now attract
ing great deal of attention. The Con-
gress De Hygiene, which will meet in
August next in Paris, have extended an
invitation to the committee on school
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of New York, to report on the sanitary
progress of the schools in this country.
The English Free and Open Church
Association at its twelfth annual meet
ing pledged itself to use its efforts to
throw open churches freely to all classes
both for public worship and private
prayers, and to promote the general
adoption of the weekly otfertory as the
most Scriptural and efficient means of
providing Tor. the expense of Divine
worship.
The Rev. Garvase Smith, ex-Presi-
dent of the British Wesleyan Confer
ence, sailed from New York City the
other day, on his way home. DR..
Smith has just returned, by way of San
Francisco, from Australia, where he
has spent nearly a year in inspecting
Wesleyan Missions. His tour extended
to Fiji, and other islands of the South
Pacific.
1t is stated that the Neapolitan
Bishops have been directed by the Vat
lean to obtain the Royal exequatur,
and consequently their State revenues.
The reason given for the change is the
falling off of the Peters pence from
the proceeds of which these Bishops
were aided, The decrease in France
is estimated at four-ffths of the sum
raised last year.
The will of the late Ben iamin Hay
wood, the well-known iron manufac-
turer, was admitted to probate recently
in Pottsville. The charitable requests
are S., 900 to the American Bible Soci-
ETY., IS, 900 to the Pottsville Methodist
Missionary Society, and the interest OF
$4,000 for the benefit of Methodist sick,
poor and aged. The real estate is val
ued at 100000.
The colored Baptists of the South
have held a convention at Nashville,
Tenn. and organized 1.-The National
Colored Baptist Missionary and Educa-
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