The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A recognized course OF study al
Observation-Disclosures. ~. Y. CONNER.
cial.
Most any unconverted man is bet.
ter than a hypocrite in church. Mr..
Moody.
The total number of Presbyterian
ministers in Europe and the United
States is 1906.
"A bill prohibiting religious exer.
cises in the public schools is before the
Wisconsin Legislature.
The Philadelphia Women's Medi.
cal College graduated seventeen female
physicians on one day recently.
Of the forty-one girls who applied
for admission to the new Boston Latin
School only one was rejected at the ex-
animation.
Mrs. G.. M. Perkins has been Or
dained to the ministry in West Concord,
Vt. Her husband preached the ordi-
nation sermon.
The contributions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
reached last year the magnificent sum
of S6,834, 1868.
Connecticut sensibly proposes to
make five years the youngest age for
the admission of scholars to the public
schools. 1t is now four.
In the South Unitarian Church,
Boston, the bread and wine are dis
played on the communion table, but are
not partaken of by the worshipers.
The increasing short-sightedness
of German students is attributed to the
custom of forcing them to study during
the evenings with insufficient light in
badly-ventilated rooms.
Bishop Tuigg, the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Pittsburgh, has issued pas
toral letter taking strong ground against
mixed marriages." and urges all
Catholics not to marry Protestants.
Another association for the CONVEX
sion of the Jews is to be formed in Lon
don. Its object is the training of men
for curates in Jewish parishes, on the
application of the incumbents of these
parishes. ....
Prof. Gladstone stated at recent
pelling-reform conference in England
that, if the English language had spell
ing as simple as the Italian, there
would be a saving in the school life of
every English child of 1000 hours.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church South will be held in
Atlanta on the first Wednesday in NAV.
The relations to each other of the two
great branches of American Methodism
will form the chief subject of discussion.
Our public schools should embrace
the science of man, the science of agri-
culture, the science of mechanics, the
science of housewifery, and the mo-
ment we enter the domain of nature our
range is unlimited. William Crandle.
The Free-will Baptists of the United
States report in their Register for 1878
40 yearly meetings, 165 quarterly meet
ings, 1,343 churches. 1,1S8 ordained
preachers, and 1926 communicates.
Maine has the largest number of
churches, $50, and New Hampshire
comes next, with 11S.
Moody is particularly strenuous in
his advice to young converts not to
marry unbelievers. He thinks the time
will soon come when ministers will re-
fuse to perform the ceremonies in such
cases. He also censured Connecticut
Valley deacons who raise tobacco, say
ing it was not done for the glory of
God.
The St. Louis School Board got into
a wrangle, the other night, over the
proposition to introduce the study of the
Irish language into the curriculum of
the public schools, which was only set
tied by compromise, to the effect that
the funds of the board do not warrant
the expense of the introduction of the
study at present.
The Methodist Conference are about
to adopt stricter rules for the reception
of new ministers. The number of APP
phcants in all the Eastern conferences
is far beyond the demands, and there
are, it is alleged, many inefficient men
in the ranks. 1t is determined TO re-
ceive only the best of the applicants,
and to keep out those who are incom-
petent and unfit.
Negotiations are in progress for a
union of the Methodist Protestant and
Southern Christian denominations The
Christian denomination was founded at
the close of the last century by a
Methodist minister, O'Kelly. 1t is now
divided into two wings, the Northern
and Southern. The latter has less than
half a hundred ministers, and will prob
ably soon break up if it does not unite
with some larger body.
Prof. Austin Phelps states that the
common assertion that "the sons of
Christian fathers are generally worse
than others" is disproved by statistics.
He gives the following fact: "In q
certain New England town of some
thousands of people the records of the
Christian families were once examined
thoroughly to test this question. The
proportion of the children of such fam.
lilies who became religious men and
women, as compared with those who
did not, was more than five to one"
KEEPING LENT.
No. tits fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat,
And meat,
Unto the hungry soule.
II is to fast from strife,
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