The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


with 1874, 029 teachers and scholars.
-Kimball has relieved thirty-seven
churches of $15, 100000 of liabilities.
About fifty women have applied
this year for Harvard College certifi-
Gates.
Mississippi has 1883 Sunday
schools, with 1856 teachers and
scholars.
1t is said that Baltimore contains
more churches than any other city in
the United States.
Queen Victoria wishes that no
clergyman should be imprisoned for his
religious convictions.
Cardinal McCloskey confirmed 637
children at the Cathedral in New York
on recent Sunday.
The United Presbyterian Assembly
passed a resolution approving the Office
of deaconess in the church.
The United Presbyterian Church of
Scotland reports 173, 554 communicates,
an increase of about 5000 since 1875.
The American Unitarian Associa-
ton received last year 1921, 693. The
total invested fund is about $500
The revival meetings in New Haven,
Just closed, cost $40, 900, and there were,
it is estimated, about 1000 conversions.
America has sent over 400 mission
aries to Turkey and spent S., ZOO, 900 in
efforts to convert the Turks to Chris
tianity,
Miss Locke Rankin, of Tennessee,
will be the first woman sent as a mis-
sionary by the Southern Methodist
Church to China.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
Union intend giving the poor children
of that city a week of country board
during the summer.
The General Convention of the New
Jerusalem Church at Boston elected for
the ensuing year Rev. Chauncy Giles,
of Philadelphia, President.
In a Kansas mixed school, when a
girl misses a question, the boy who an
swers it can kiss her. Naturally the
girls are getting duller and duller.
The Chinese Sunday-school of the
First Congregational Church of San
Francisco has just celebrated its tenth
anniversary. About 250 Chinese were
present.
The United Presbyterian Church
reports, for the year ending May l,
1873, Sc Presbyteries, CAT ministers, 1872
Sunday-schools. The total of contri-
buttons was $732,666
AT Wayland Seminary, in Wash
ington, d. c., where young colored per-
sons are trained for the Baptist minis
try, no student is allowed to use either
whisky or tobacco.
The Catholic Society for the Prop
agation of the Faith, which has its
headquarters at Lyons, France, reports
receipts for the past year of 6,142, 1926
francs, being an increase of 211,976
francs over the income of 1876.
The Methodist is moved to say:
CHOW look out for the annual hail
storm of honorary degrees, and do not
forget that great many more are ask
ing than receiving. We wish colleges
would make it a rule not to give hon
orary degrees to any who ask them"
DIR. Barbour, of Yale College, COM
pairing recent with former revivals,
says, among other things: "Another
factor of the change is in the service of
song. 1t is now of a prancing style.
Men go dancing, as it were, into the
kingdom of heaven"
This pleasant paragraph from
Cleveland, Ohio, will interest teachers
everywhere: "The A grammar teach
ers in Cleveland get $3.50 a year; the
carpenter employed by the board gets
5000" 1t looks as though the carpen-
ter had strong grounds for complaint.
-Hawh-Eye.
A little boy, on returning home
from church, was asked by his mother
ts give the text. After a thoughtful
pause the little fellow replied: 81
don't hardly remember, but it was
something about hawk between two
pigeons" The text was: "Why halt
We between two opinions?n
The Russian Greek Church pos
sesses 8,602 churches, including 1850
chapels and oratories; 1887 arch
priests, deacons and precentors, and
56,500,00 members, of whom 9,000,-
600 are women and 27,500,0O0 men.
The money received by the church last
year amounted to about $9,500,000.
wAYFARERs.
The way is long, my darling,
The road is rough and steep,
And fast across the evening sky
| see the shadows sweep.
But oh my love, my darling,
No i'll to us can come,
No terror turn us from the path,
For we are going home
Your feet are tired, my darling,
So tired the tender feet;
But think, when we are there at last,
How long the rest, and sweet!
For, lol the lamps are lighted,
And yonder cleaning dome,
Before us shining like star,
Shall guide our footsteps home.
We've lost the flowers we gathered
So early in the morn;
And on we go, with empty hands
And garments soed and worn.
But oh the dear All Father
viii out to meet us come,
And fairer flowers and whittier robes
There wait for us at home.
Art cold, my love, and famished!
Art faint and sore athirstl
Be patient yet little while
And joyous as at first;
For oh the sun sets never
Within that lane Of bloom,
And thou shalt eat the bread of life,
And drink life's wine at home.
The wind blows cold, my darling,
Adown the mountain steep,
And thick across the evening sky
The darkling shadows creep;