The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-18
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Bishop Simpson is siXty-eight year:
of age, and begins to show his years.
The attendance at the New York
public schools slightly exceeds 10000
The Union Presbytery of Japan re-
ports fourteen churches and $50 mem
bers.
There are now forty Catholic par.
ishes within the municipal limits Of
Brooklyn.
The United Presbyterian ministers
of Pittsburgh refuse to officiate at Sun.
day funerals.
AT Kioto, Japan, there are eighty.
seven students training for the Protest,
ant ministry.
The Rev. DR.. Cuyler says Dr. Storrs,
of Brooklyn, is the foremost man of the
American pulpit.
-Spurgeon struck the right keynote
when he said: eff you want to sue
coed in life, have hearts"
Here is rare achievement: The
Second Congregational Church, New
London, Conn, have raised 81, 900 over
and above their debt of 81, 800.
Paul was the apostle to the Gen
tiles. Many of the preachers in our
fashionable churches to-day might be
called apostles to the Genteels."
The German School Gazette states
that there are in the German Empire,
in round numbers, 10000 primary
schools and 5000, 1000 scholars.
The Unitarian Church of North
ampton, Mass, being in debt, the young
women have volunteered to do the
work of the sexton and the organ boy.
The Lassell Young Ladies' Semina-
ry at Auburn, Mass, has a professor
ship of Domestic Science" the chair
being filled by Miss Parloa, the lecturer
on cookery.
Chicago is a Lutheran city. In it
there are 20 Lutheran churches, of
which l is Dutch, l English, II are
German, and the rest are Norwegian
and Swedish.
1t is stated that of the white Bap-
fist churches in Kentucky only 40 have
preaching every Sunday, IS have preach
ing semi-monthly, and 1,142 have
preaching monthly.
Two young women have died and
another gone insane, it is said from the
effects of over-study and excitement at
tendant upon an examination at the
Jersey City High School.
After long discussion, the St. Louis
Board of Public School Directors have
reported in favor of retaining German,
music, drawing and the kindergarten
branches in the list of studies.
AT the meeting of the Woman s
Christian Temperance Union in Jer-
sey City, recently, resolution was
adopted, requesting clergymen to dis
continue the use of fermented liquors
at communion service.
The Interior says that if ministers
of the Gospel had no higher mission and
accomplished no other result than to
eXemplify the gospel of good breeding,
they would be worth all they cost to So
ciety.
Rev. Mr.. Eggleston's Sunday-school
in Brooklyn, N. Y, gives chrome to
every new scholar. The result is the
school is growing to wonderful dimen-
sions, and the neighboring schools are
being depleted to an alarming extent.
Bishop Simpson wants no man in
the Methodist Church unless he is a
Methodist to the core. He thinks the
Methodists admit good many people
to membership of whom they know
nothing, and who are so ignorant they
don't know what they believe.
A recent number of the COngregn-
tiOndJiSt contains list of about sixty
churches of various denominations
which have, during the past three
months, been reported as paying off
church debts. The amounts reported
aggregate about 81, 100000.
Moody and Sankey have worked
together for seven years and have never
had quarrel Moody is forty-seven
years old andSankey ten years younger.
Both enjoy excellent health, eating
heartily, sleeping soundly and taking
abundance of exercise.
A Georgia teacher advertises the
Marion High School at Buena Vista,
and adds: 1.-THE subscriber takes pleas
ure in announcing to the public that
there is no longer any necessity of send
ing young men to colleges to have their
morals and manners orrupted-educate
them at or near home"
-DOlllC AOO VI llttii
ton (Va.) Colored Institute are now
teaching in the schools of the State.
The institute itself continues with its
york in a quiet way and has now I'M
Do its charge about 250 pupils. Its
farming and industrial departments are
well sustained, the farm last year
bringing in S11 ,545 receipts.
In the Southern States there are re-
ported 27,619 Sunday-schools, with l.
792,979 scholars. The total population
of these States is 13,000,0 900. The whole
number of schools in the United States
is 1880, with 6,423, 2S5 scholars. New
York has 1880 scholars, the largest
number in any one State. Pennsyl-
vania is second, Ohio third and Illinois
fourth.
Pennsylvania ladies wishing to fol
low the medical profession have sue
ceeded so far with the University Of
that State as to obtain the privilege Of
attending the lectures on chemistry,
geology, mineralogy, comparative anat'
omy, medical jurisprudence, botany
and hygiene. They are not allowed to
matriculate or appear for examination
but this may come in time.