The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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"A prayer-book, intended for fash
lonable people only, is made of satin
leaves, with ebony covers.
The Missouri Lutherans have APP
pointed their first missionary for work
among the Southern negroes.
-Signor Minghetti, the Italian Min
lister, has written pamphlet favoring
the separation of the church from the
State.
There is said to be a large influx
into the Reformed Church of France of
Freethinkers from the Roman Catholic
Church.
st. Stephens, at Annandale, n. Y,
is one of the few American colleges that
requires its students to wear caps and
gowns. ..
"A superannuatedm minister, no longer
wanted, says: Il have been doing one
thing for which the church will not for
give me: have grown old.n
The members of the girls high
school in Bangor, Me-, have held a
prayer-meeting on every Thursday
afternoon for the past six years.
The Rev. S. l.. Harris, ID. D., rec
tor of st. James Church, Chicago. has
been unanimously elected Bishop of the
new Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, ILL.,
The German Lutheran Synod of
Maryland has been refused admission
to the Union of the West, body COM
posed of Lutherans and Reformed Ger
mans.
The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Church South, will necesSi-
tate the election of three Bishops by the
General Conference, which meets in At
lanta.
Several of the Old Catholic priests
of Germany have married recently.
This will probably compel the synod
next year to decide the celibacy ques-
ton.
An ecclesiastical authority esti-
mates that in round numbers there are
in England and Wales 1880 church
benetices, and that their annual net
value is S15, 100000.
Archbishop Purcell recommends
the establishment in the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati of schools for Catholic colored
children, to serve as churches for adults
also. A society has been established in
Cincinnati, under the patronage of
Blessed Peter Claver, to aid this object
Little Sammy went to church
fair and spent his money on a chance
in rattle. His report on coming home
was thus: " You see something, and
you give half dollar to get it. An
other fellow always gets it, and they
don't offer to give you your money
back"
A theological seminary is to be
opened at Toxic, Japan, in connection
with the recent union of the three Prot
estant missions, the American Presbv-
terrain, the Dutch Reformed, and the
United or Scotch Presbyterian. The
college will have permanent staff of
three professors, one nominated by each
of the missions.
The State University of Iowa re-
ports eightytw students in its ''regu-
lar medical class, and fourteen in the
homeopathic; also 105 in the law and
357 registered in the collegiate depart
ment. This is the first time the homGo-
paths have had hearing in the uni
versity lecture-rooms, and all as quiet
as if they were REGULARS"
The Presbytery of Pittsburgh has
pronounced against promiscuous
dancing and kindred amusements. :"
One doctor of divinity had heard that in
some dances it was customary for a
gentleman to place his arm around Il
laay's waist. He had never seen any,
thing of this kind done, but if such was
the practice he was clearly of the opin-
ion that it could result only in evil.
The American Bible Society has de-
cided to make a still further change in
its method of business in addition to
that of last year. Hereafter its publ
cations are to be sold to repositories for
cash only, and the scale of prices will
be rearranged so that booksellers can
receive the publications on the same
terms as the auXiliaries. 1t is also in
tended to extend the colporteur system
At a recent teachers examination
in a certain county in this State, lady
who had held certificates for the past
five years bounded Wisconsin on the
north by the North Sea, and said the
Pc was the longest river in Europe
Another old teacher being asked by the
Superintendent whether this country
was democracy, replied: "No; but
it would have been if Mr. Tilden had
been elected. Since Mr.. Hayes was
elected it is republic" We are in
formed that these were not exceptional
answers.-W Wisconsin Teacher.
The colored Baptsts of Alabama
held their State Convention recently at
Eufaula. The convention represents
twenty-four associations, with a mem
bership of about $4,000. The greatest
need these people have is schools.
There is no Baptist school in the State
open to colored persons, and but one
white woman teacher for colored girls,
either in day or Sunday schools. The
convention decided to open a school at
Selma as soon as sufficient funds can
be collected. About $4,000 has been
secured thus far. .....
devotional exercises in the public
schools of New Haven have been g. dis
pensed with by formal vote of the
School Board. During the argument,
one of the members said he had CORE
sponded on the subject with various
Western cities-Chicapo. Toledo Pitts