The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-26
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

llC DCOpiC VI lON IL SpClltI sOOVs
600 year in school taxes.
Harvard will follow Yale in having
Chinese course next year.
There are nineteen Jewish places
of worship in New York city.
-Vassar Colleges college at POUCH
keepsie, with 500 young lady students,
principally fools.-Ja1ae Grey SCisshelm.
The grand doxology, Praise God
from whom all blessings flow,' is 24C
years old. Bishop Ken was the author.
The Rev. C. Chiniquy announces
the conversion of 103 French Canadians
from Roman Catholicism within few
weeks.
Few things do more to paralyze
our churches and weigh down the hearts
of their minister than the thing called
debt
The Wisconsin Unitarian Confer
ence appointed committee of five to
petition the Legislature to tax church
property.
Arizona expends $42.41 per capita
for the education other childen in pub
lie schools; California S22.04, and Mas
sachusetts but $40.
The Austrian Minister of Educa-
ton and Worship has issued an order
acknowledging the Old Catholic con-
gregations within the Austrian Empire
Rev. A. w. Mann, of Chicago, and
Rev. H. w. Syle, of Philadelphia, are
said to be the only deaf-mute clergymen
in the country. Probably they fill the
demand.
The Rev. Anna Oliver graduated
at the Theological School of the Boston
University last year, being the first
woman thus honored in that institution
She is now in Illinois.
Of the 4, 103 students who have at
tended Amherst College during the last
sixteen years only 955 have been sick
during their course, freshmen being the
most frequent sufferers.
-"Do you know what the Covenant
is?'' was said to an old Scottish wife
Il dinna ken what it is, but IL n0in-
teen't," (maintain it). That expresses a
vast amount of common theology.
The "Curates' Aid Society," is the
name given the numerous daughters of
the Bishop of London. Several of them
are married to clergymen, who have
been remarkably successful in obtain
ing valuable preferments.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church reports, for 1877, 212,053 min
listers, members and probationers, of
whom 1S2,026 are in the South. The
largest membership in any State is in
South Carolina, where it is "a, 164.
"A curious complaint comes from
the South to the Catholic authorities
1t is that the colored converts hold fast
until they come within reach of a Meth
odist camp-meeting. They then re-
turn to their first love, and the process
of conversion to the Roman Catholic
Church must be done over again.
The University of Pennsylvania has
264 students, 119 of whom are in the
Towne Scientific School. Women are
admitted to the university as special
students in history, English literature,
physics, chemistry and music. Three
are pursuing the study of analytical
chemistry and six the science of music.
Probably the largest ordination
service ever held in America was that
at the Grand Seminary (Roman Catho-
lic), Montreal Dec. %. On that day
forty-five priests and thirty-one Dea-
cons and Sub-deacons We're ordained.
Many of them were from the United
States.
"A New Orleans paper says that a
religious wave has lately passed over
Louisiana. Some half dozen towns
in the State have refused to allow a
drop of liquor to be sold, and dozen
or more parishes have ranged them
selves under the Sunday-law banner
and prohibit work of any kind upon the
Sabbath.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr, de-
clares that the examination papers for
admission to Harvard College are ga
disgrace to the man who prepared them,
a disgrace to the institution which toll
crates them, and an outrage on the
student, who is subjected to process
of examining that would be barbarous
if applied to a turkey"
The Philadelphia Ministerial Union,
composed of ministers of the various
evangelical denominations, has passed
'hO IolloNlHS lesolullou' IHdo VIC
put on record as the sense of this body,
that the old orthodox doctrine of fu-
ture and endless punishment of the
finally impenitent is firmly held by all
evangelical churches of this day within
our limits"
The London Church Times, Ritu-
alist paper, laments that the Supreme
Governor of the Church of England is
becoming an alien from its faith and
discipline" Particular instance-the
fact that the Queen and the Princess
Beatrice have communicated at Graf
THE parish church. The Church Times
is glad to say'' that the Princess OF
Wales was present but "would have
nothing to do with the business"