The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The St. Louis School Board gallant
ly refuses to expunge married teachers.
The town of Salina, Kan, with less
than $500 inhabitants, has seven
churches.
The Philadelphia Bntletin asks if
Baptists are more liable to diptheory
than other people.
-Artemus Ward said of the Mormon
ties: "Their religion is singular, but
their wives are plural
"A number of Dartmouth students,
mostly freshmen, have been dropped
for deficient scholarship.
The Reformed Episcopal Church is
growing slowly. 1t now has seventy
eight ministers, of whom five are Bish-
ops.
Compulsory religious instruction in
the public schools of Genoa has been
unanimously abolished by the city's au-
thOrities.
THE Congregational Church of Wal
colt, Me-, decided that the use of wine
at the communion table tends to pro-
mote intemperance. Water is hereaft-
er to be used.
1t is false economy to cut down
the salaries of teachers. The amount
thus supposed to be saved is simply
added to the fund for the erection of
prisons and poorhouses. - Graphic.
The principal of Southern female
academy calls on the young men of the
town to let his teachers alone. He says
every time one of them gets fairly at
work some fellow comes along and mar
rieS her.
Rev. DR.. Harris, Bishop-elect of the
Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, ILL.,, de-
clines the episcOpate, compelled to the
conclusion by considerations relating to
the work of the church in his present
field of labor.
Mr. Moody will labor in Hartford
in January, try to convert Springfield
in February, work in Boston for two
weeks and in New Haven for the same
length of time in March, and then rest
for the summer.
The Bible depository in Japan is
sending out over 10000 portions of
Scripture year. Acts has Just been
published, and Galatians will soon be
ready, and beginning has been made
on the Old Testament.
Plymouth Church statistics for 1877:
Membership, 2,545, an increase of "a;
removals by death, "a; by letter, 50;
dropped, Z; communicated, l. Con-
tributions and collections, S10,429
rentals, $4,000.
New Haven, with $4,000 inhabit-
ants, has tifty-tive churches. The Con-
gregationalists have fifteen, the Meth
Odists thirteen, the Episcopalians ten,
the Catholics seven, the Baptists six,
the Jews two, and the Lutherans and
UnitarianS one each.
"A West Virginia law enacts that if
any person shall be concerned in man.
aging rattle or gift enterprise at a
church fair or festival he may be i'm
prisoned year and fined $500, and the
property shall be forfeited to the State
for the benefit of the school fund.
Within four years 1000 persons
have been baptized in the fellowship of
the Baptist churches of the Black Sea
and central provinces of Russia. The
Emperor has presented his thanks to
the pastors and churches for their 10y
atty and patriotism.
There are several Lutheran alma
macs published in this country and all
differ in their statistical tables. One
reports the number of communicates
at 655, 500, another at COS, 900, and still
another at 9,503. The real number
of Lutherans is not far from 100000.
Tbor- toll &c IN ,>,naobo,. $50 w.,
mont who served one meek congrega-
ton faithfully for twenty-five years be-
cause no one dared to suggest change,
since he had threatened with flogging
any of his lambs who should bleat in
such strain. Only one ever attempted
it, and he to his sorrow.
Concerning the future Pope the
Boston Pilot observes that Catholics and
Catholic journals have little to say, sim
ing anything about the matter. The
Pilot thinks it quite possible that one of
the non-Italian members of the conclave
may be chosen.
The Methodist Missionary Society
calls for two men, white or colored, to
90 to Liberia. One is wanted to take
charge of the Monrovia Seminary and
the other to help establish the proposed
mission among the Veys, at Boporo, in
the interior. One man has been already
appointed to this mission.
-AnSIndianapolis minister has given
a practical rebuke to those attendants
at his church who care to hear the SER
mon and skip the Introductory serv-
ices. On recent Sunday he began his
sermon Immediately after the singing
of the first hymn, and afterward an
nounced that in the future there would
be no regular order in the arrangement
of the service, so that late corners are
not to count upon the sermon.
They have reduced whipping to a
system in the public schools of certain
Connecticut towns. Whenever teach
ers inflict corporal punishment, they
are obliged to send the pupil to the
School Superintendent with a certificate
explaining the offense for which the
punishment was inflicted, the instru-
ment used, and the number of blows
struck. This arrangement tends to
make teachers think twice before they
strike once.
Mr.. Charles Morton says the Sun