The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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917.
The Cumberland Presbyterians re-
port 10000 COMMITMENTS and 1900
preachers.
During the past year $50, 900 worth
of books were added to the Princeton
College library.
The only medical college for ne
groes is at Nashville, Tenn. 1t has an
ample endowment.
The Trustees of the Oneida, ILL.,,
Universalist Church have S125 of
church money to loan.
The Bishops of the Southern Meth
odist Church, have appointed August
I'd day of fasting and prayer.
The Catholic journalists of the
United States are to hold a convention
Sept. 9th, to form union or associa-
ton.
Free scholarships have been offered
by friend of Amherst Agricultural
College to every worthy freshman who
may apply.
Eleven young ladies are studying
at the London Medical School in prep
aration for missionary work in India
and Africa.
The practice of holding soirees "
and secular entertainments in churches
is agitating the Established Presbytery
of Edinburgh.
AS many as four hundred persons
have lately been received into the New
Haven churches on profession of faith
the result of the Moody revival.
At the recent examinations of the
Philadelphia Grammar Schools those
taught by female principals passed
with the highest averages,
"A church clock, presented by Mr..
Wesley when in America, is still doing
good service in the main audience room
of Old John Street Church, New York
City.
In the State of New York there
are thirty-five colleges and 234 acade-
mics, with an attendance of &c, POS stu
dents, 5,037 of that number being in
the colleges.
The sixty-ninth annual meeting of
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions will be held in
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Mil
Waukee, Oct. L.
One of the latest anomalies in daily
journalism is discussion between the
New York Tribune and the New York
Sam on the proper methods of teaching
in Sunday School.
Since 1870 the average annual in
crease of membership in the Baptist
Church of Great Britain and Ireland
has been 1920 persons. The total
membership is now 269,S3 persons.
-Biddle University for Freedmen,
which began some ten years ago at
Charlotte, N. c., with forty students
and three teachers, has now 40 stu
dents with four professors and four as
sistants.
The Baptist Year Book for 1873
gives the following figures; Associa-
tons, 1,048; churches, 23,09S; ordained
ministers, 1886; additions by baptism,
1902, 292; by letter, 80, 1856; total men,
bership, 2,024,224
The Lutheran Ministerium of Penn
sylvania has, by resolution, notified
the German Reformed Church that the
sending or reception of fraternal dele
gates does not carry with it admission
to Lutheran pulpits and affairs.
The Minister of War of Greece, at
the request of the Grand Rabbi of
Corfu, has granted religious privileges
to the Jewish soldiers, and just before
their passover chartered a steamer to
convey them to their homes that they
might suitably observe the festival.
According to the recent annual re-
port of the Primitive Methodist Home
and Foreign Missionary Society, the
Society has 1877 ministers and mission
aries in England and Wales, ninety.five
in Australia and seventy. seven in Can
ada. The expenditures of the year
We're E23,2
The Springfield Union knows of
g an earnest and able Christian Minis
teri now doing good work in town
near Springfield on a salary of $500,
fifty dollars of which goes for house
rent and all donations from members
of the society are charged against their
salary account"
"A German paper has calculated
that the conversion of a jew to
Christianity is even more expensive
than that of Mohammedan. The con-
version of Mohammedan costs f244,
while that of Jew amounts to f450.
The cost, this paper adds, is betrayed
by the English missionary societies.
The recent dedication at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, of the fine new Metho-
dist church, was a more than ordinari-
ly interesting event. 1t is not only the
handsomest church edifice in the Con-
ference, but it was dedicated free from
debt, $4,000 having been pledged at
the time, and $4,000 previously paid.
The Presbyterian mission at Pekin,
China, has been blessed with what
seems to have been genuine revival.
About forty natives sought pardon and
united with the church. A like resulttook
place under the labors of the Ameri-
can Boards missionaries at Tungchow.
The London mission at Tientsin re-
ceived 25O persons.
The British Evangelical Alliance
has recently called the attention of the
Foreign Office to the continued prose-
cution of Lutheran clergymen in the
Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt for
holding religious services in private
houses. A deputation is to be sent by
+bn Alliance with a memorial IN tho