The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


tablished a school specially devoted to
! the study of telegraphy.
Fifty years ago 40 per cent. of col
lege graduates in the United States be-
came clergyman; now the percentage
is only II.
| The cornerstone of an institute
where the daughters of missionaries
may be educated, has just been laid in
London, the building is to cost $4,000.
In consequence of the proclama-
ton of amnesty by the Grand Council
OF Switzerland to the Catholic priests
who are eXiles, they are returning to
their parishes,
The study of politics is to be intro
duced in the Providence High School,
by compulsory eXtemperaneous debates
once week on subjects of State and
National Government.
The University of Zurich has Just
bestowed theltitle ofDoctor of Jurispru-
dence on a young Russian lady, who
obtained the highest honors in her eX-
animation for this degree.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Boston gained in membership
last year over 800. 1t raised 1919;
it has no debt, and in eight years it
has found situations for 1892 young
men.
The Secretary of the American
Missionary Association desires to find a
competent person to be nominated for
an Indian agency. "Best credentials
required as to character and business
capacity. Bonds required to the
amount of SIS, 1000"
The Unitarians of England have
$40 churches. OF these, according to
Unitarian paper, 100 are in much
peril, One-third of that number being
virtually closed another third are on
the virgo of closing, and the rest are
declining in membership and influence
The Presbyterian Church of Ire
land reports Synods, 81 Presbyteries,
$50 congregations, GA ministers, and
106, ITO communicates. The church
raised last year $750,000 for all pur-
poses. Eighteen of the ministers are
missionaries in Europe and Asia.
Of the 1,042 ministers of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, only SO
are actively engaged in the ministry
Of the others, 50 are Presidents, teach
ers and editors, and III are variously
described as infrm," agents."
suspended" and % are g monde
script
The illinois Methodist Conference
carries its Sunday principles to the ex-
tent of resolving to discourage the
burial on Sunday of any person who
could as well be buried on Saturday or
Monday, thereby preventing interior
ence with the regular Sabbath serv-
ices.n
There are fifteen Indian students
at Hampton, Va. They worked through
the summer, chiefly on farms, earning
money for their clothing and support
Seventy young men in all and twenty
two young women remained at the In
stitute the past summer, most of them
finding employment.
There are now nine different evan
gelical bodies in Rome, viz: The Wal
densians, the Wesleyans, the Method
lists, the Episcopal Methodists, the Free
Church, the Presbyterians, the Ply
mouth Brethren, the American Bap-
lists, and the Apostolic Baptists, num-
bering 700 Italian adherents in all.
The Constantinople correspondent
of the Cologne Gazette says that some
thing like a religious revival is tax
ing place at Constantinople. Sermons
by popular preachers are more than
ordinarily well attended, and religious
conferences, presided over by the
CInI1- Il Al
Sultan and his Ministers, have been
held.
Rev. David Dale. missionary of
the American Board, died recently in
the Sandwich Islands, aged 20. He
went to Honolulu in 1910, and was
President until 1855 of the Oahu Col
lege. He then removed to Kaloo,
Kausi, where he taught with great sue
cess. He was a fine classical scholar,
and fitted many young men for Ameri-
can colleges.
An important experiment is tried
in the Boston public schools, where
books have been excluded from the
primary departments and oral exer-
cises and object lessons substituted
The young pupils are especially taught
to express ideas in their own language.
The teachers lecture, or talk, daily
about such knowledge as little children
may best acquire. In the more adj
vanced classes newspapers are fire.
quently substituted for reading books.
Among the. changes that will be
most noticeable in the revised Bible are
the omission of the story of Christ and
the woman taken in adultery (John
viii: LID the clause about the angel
troubling the pool (John V: ~, the last
II verses of Marks Gospel, and the
verse about the three that bear wit
ness in Heaven q John V: y. These
are not found in the oldest manuscripts,
and were probably added from tradi-
ton at later date.