The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There is Chinese Young Men S
Christian Association in Oakland, Cal.
Last year the British and Foreign
Bible Society printed 2,670,742 copies
of the Bible. la
The Methodist Church South has
increased $4,000 members since the
close of the war.
There are thirteen distinct denomi-
nations of Methodists in the United
States, aggregating a membership of
3,315, 600.
There are now half dozen female
local preachers in the Methodist Church,
but none have as yet been admitted to
the itinerancy.--
The church of the Latter-Day
Saints-monogamic Mormon-claims
to have 346 congregations, with men,
bership of II 900 communicates.
Berlin has population of SO4, 900
Protestants, for whom there are but 81
churches and 95 ministers-that is one
shepherd to flock of S,463 sheep.
There was wisdom worthy of gray
hairs in the saying of the little girl:
81 don't like to hear DR.. - preach
he speaks of God as if He were his
cousin"
-Beecher says it is the spirit of
Christ in every man that makes him
truly religious, and not his subscribing
to this or that ordinance or creed or
doctrine.
One hundred and sixty-seven of the
go students in the Boston University
are women. They are raising $40, 900
to found a professorship, to be filled by
a woman.
The Adventists of Battle Creek,
Mich, believe that Jesus Christ will
very soon come again to earth and take
them all up to heaven. Yet they are
building a $25, 600 church.
The Southern Methodist Church is
gaining large German constituency.
They have about 10000 German men,
bers, belonging to two German Confer
enceS and to several English.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church
in this country has but six Doctors of
Divinity, their colleges not comforting
the title on anyone. Those who have
it received it from other colleges.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has built IN the last ten years 4,97S
church edifioes at a cost of $50, 000, 900.
The value of its entire church property
is 100000 900, on which is an aggre-
gate debt of about 100000.
The Catholic University at Louvain
has had surprising growth. Begin
ming in 1858 with Sc students, it now
has an annual total of from 1,200 to L.
500. During its existence of forty years
it has had 80, 200 names on its lists.
"A Kansas schoolma ann has intro-
duced a new feature in her school.
When one of the girls nAisses word,
the boy who spells it gets permission to
kiss her. AS a result, the girls are be-
coming very poor spoilers, while the
boys are Improving.
According to the statistics of Secre-
tary Porter, of the International Sun
day-school Convention, there are g.
sos, 054 scholars in the Sunday-schools
of the United States, and 339, 943 in
those of Carada. The whole number
of schools is SO, AL, and of teachers and
officers, S94,793.
We not half enough consider the
value of youthful energy in the church.
1t needs restraint and the guidance
which is to be received from the wis
dom and experience of maturer years,
but it is indispensable 10 the vigor and
enterprise that are the life and strength
of our church work Omitted PreSblEe-
riGn.
The Dutch Government has issued
report on the state of education in
Holland 1t states that at the end of
1875 the three Dutch universities were
frequented by 1862 students. A ne
markable feature in D@tch education
is 1875 schools for adults, attended by
6,076 men and 1885 women.
In England Universalist minister,
riding with Methodist, was asked
what he preached for, if Universalism
were trRe, He replied by asking:
"What do you preach for?" ITO
keep people out of helI,'' was the an
swer. And PREACH said the Uni
versalist, - to keep hell o@t of the peo-
pie. Christian Register.
The American Bible Society can
now supply a neat copy of the New
Testament, S2no. size, printed on good
paper, from new plates, agate type,
bound in muslin, flexible cover, with
red edges, at five cents per copy, five
dollars per hundred. A copy can be
sent anywhere in our country by mail,
prepaid, for seven cents.
You need not be afraid of giving
too much. The old darkey said: g If
any OBJ you know OBJ any church what
died OBJ liberaiity, ies' tell me whar it
is, an | will take pilgrimage to it,
and by the soft light OBJ de pale moon l
will crawl upon de topmost moscow
cred roof an write upon the tOpmost
single: Blessed am de dead who die
in de Lord. ="
The Christian Recorder, organ of
the African M. E. Church, advises the
colored people TO talk less about being
negroes and more about being Ameri-
cans. There is no element of strength
in it, nor any weakness. 1t is simply
fact, and of no more Importance than
the color of the hair. To expect to
make it some mighty power is nonsense.
1t has its use. The best thing to be
done now is to bury it.
The Rev. John Jasper, whose SER
mon IN ttTha Sun no NTovaii hoe o+