The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

MIS- I'LL SOlU price IOT eVd0gel-
ism in Omaha was thirty-five dollars a
day.
Fifty churches in and about Boston
have paid their debts during the past
few months, amounting to nearly ST.
100000.
The High School of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, no longer gives instruction in an
cient and modern languages, music and
penmanship.
President Moore has raised a guar
anty fund of 5000 year for five years,
to carry the debt of the Cincinnati Yves
leyan College.
Dartmouth College will have con-
siderable difficulty in securing grant
of 5000 from the New Hampshire
Legislature now in session.
The New Brunswick Presbyterv at
its next meeting will take action upon
the letter of resignation sent in by the
Bev. John Miller, of Princeton, n. j.
The Columbia College summer class
in practical mining will make Port
Henry, near Lake Champlain, the cen
ter of their mining operations this year.
Not less than 81 100000 have been
subscribed on church debts in Massa-
chusetts within the past few months re-
lieving fifty churches from their liabili-
ties.
The total number of students in all
the departments of the Iowa State Uni
versity during the year just closed was
612-an increase of sixty over the pre-
vious year.
About fifty young women will take
the Harvard examinations this summer
twenty in Philadelphia, eleven in
Cambridge, five in Cincinnati and the
others in New York.
The German Baptists of the United
States have increased from 944 in 1854,
to 1.769 in 1857, to 4,044 in 1867, to
5000 in 1875 and there are 1913 Ger
man Baptist ministers.
The Church of the Incarnation,
New Y Ork, is to be added to the eman-
cipated list. Within few weeks, by
the earnest effort of the pastor, the Rev.
Arthur Brooks, its debt of $4S, 600 has
been entirely extinguished.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev Dr.
Talmage, takes its place among the
freed churches. The debt in March
last was $4,000; on Sunday, June 2,
the final $40, 900 was raised, which COM
pletely eXtinguishes this large indebted
ness.
An institution for colored students
to be known as ''Clark University" is
shortly to be built near Atlanta. 1t will
not be sectarian, and it will offer poor
students work which will help them to
pay their college expenses. 1t will be
in part an agricultural school.
The question of marriage, which
has always been a source of schism in
the Catholic Church, has been again
a9itated at the Synod of the Old Cath
olics, now in session at Bonn, in Ger
many. A vote of IS to % has adopted
a resolution in favor of the marriage of
the clergy.
The Eighty-third Convention of the
Congregational Churches of Vermont
was held recently at Rutland. The
number of Congregations was reported
to be 200; of pastors, 60; and of acting
pastors, 100. The Sunday-school schol-
ars are 22,000 with an average atten-
dance of $4,000.
The Presbyterian Church has three
Synods in Illinois-the North, the Cen
trial, and the South These report q
total of A ,2Sl communicates. Penn
sylvania is, however, the stronghold of
the Presbyterians. In that State they
have 132,525 communicates; in New
York, 130,848. The Church has in all
557,674 communicates in 81 Synods.
"A number of Baptist ministers of
Brooklyn and New York, at meeting
held on the 18th inst, resolved to Sc
cure the endowment of the "Conant
Biblical Chair as testimony to the
value of the half-century's labors of the
Rev. DR.. 7. j. Conant in Biblical re-
search. One-tenth of the sum required
was subscribed at the meeting.
The New England Baptist Mission
airy Convention (colored) has passed a
resolution to appoint two special COM
mittees, one to consider and report up
on the relations of the colored and
white Baptists of the North, and the
other to consider and report upon the
"relations of the COlored Baptists of
the United States among themselves"
"A convention, consisting of five
lay-delegates from each church, is to
be held by the Methodists of Brooklyn,
to consider the present form of the
itinerancy in connection with the
growth of Methodism in that city.
The reason given for the calling of the
convention is the growing belief that
the present short term of the pastorate
is an injury to the churches.
The Universal Peace Union, COM
posed largely of Friends, held its twelfth
anniversary IN Poughkeepsie, on the
Sth inst. 1t uttered an emphatic pro-
test against the late war in Europe and
our own perpetual war with the Indians
in the West. We fear, however, that
it will be long while before the Union
may cease It's fight against the barbar-
ism of the age.
In the recent Diocesan Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Michigan, it was proposed that the
clergy and laity of the diocese pledge
themselves to do without tobacco three
months in order to raise money to edu-
cate candidates for the ministry. The
proposition was voted down, one of the
lay delegates remarking he coud not
vote to deprive the ministers of any Of
their little comforts!