The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

hELIGIOUS AND EDUCAIlONAL.
Harvard Freshmen evince great
enthusiasm for boating.
There are exactly 100 Methodist
churches in Philadelphia.
-Lassell Seminary proposes to add
to its facilities, to teach the art of dress
making.
Preachers will not be permitted to
teach in the public schools of Milwau-
kee hereafter.
DR. Pusey has been Canon of Christ
Church Cathedral, Oxford, England,
half century.
There are only two consecrated Ro-
man Catholic churches in the Archdio-
cese of Boston, all the rest being in
debt
The Woman's Board of Missions,
auxiliary to the American Board, has
in ten years collected 1854, 900, of which
only S., 900 has been used in home ex-
penses.
The total income of the Church of
England is little over 98, ZOO, 600, and
the church population about 12,500, 900,
for whom 5,750,000 church sittings are
regularly fixed.
The International Confederation
for promoting the observance of the
Christian Sabbath has offered prize of
1000 francs for the best essay on THE
Evils of Sunday Railroad Traffic.
The three denominations in the
State of New York which pay the
largest ministerial salaries are: Meth
odist, 1,137 1885; Presbyterian, $780,
no, and Protestant Episcopalian, $780,
S72.
Mr.. Kimball has lifted or helped to
lift the debts of twenty-three churches
of the Presbyterian, Episcopal, Congre-
gational and Methodist denominations.
The aggregate of debts thus provided
for is $760,000.
The General Eldership or Confer
ence of the Church of God, a German
Baptist organization, numbering about
$4,000 members, will be held at SYRIA
cuse, Ind, May 20. 1t meets once in
three years.
Great difficulty is experienced in
obtaining the required number of
schoolmasters and schoolmistresses for
the public schools in Prussia. In the
beginning of June, 1877 there were
4,581 such appointments vacant.
American missionaries in Japan
have translated eleven books of the
New Testament, which have been pub
lished, largely at the expense of the
American Bible Society, in thirty-three
separate octave volumes, retailing at
from three to twenty-five cents.
The Baptists are represented in
nearly every country on the globe.
They have in all about 2, 400, 600 mem
bers, of whom about 100000 are in
the United States, "a, 900 are in Canada,
265, 797 are in Great Britain and Ireland,
and the rest are found in Mexico, Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The
number of churches will reach 2S,000
Harvard University's expenses last
year were 1924, 575 and the receipts
S224,640. President Eliot suggests that
the best form of gifts is permanent
endowments for professorships and per-
manent funds for the use of the corpora
ton at discretion. There are at present
1913 seniors, 176 juniors, 222 sopho-
mores and 232 freshmen. Total, 1923
students.
Bishop Burden, Anglican of China,
has a large diocese to travel over 1t
takes him six months to make the round
of the missions and he has to travel
5000 miles, At Fuh-chau he baptized
during his recent visit $50 adults and
confirmed 500 persons. This mission
was established in 1850 and gained its
first convert in 1860. Now it has !, 443
native Christians, and 259 adults were
baptized last year.
Col. Higginson says, in the Wom-
ans Journal, of cQeducation in the
University of Michigan, which he has
lately visited: $50 far as co-education
is concerned, the impression left upon
my mind was that it was a thing that
had long since ceased to be on trial, and
was now accepted as matter of course.
Nobody alluded to anything but good
as coming from it, mentally, morally or
physically. The young men who had
charge of the Lecture Association volun-
teered the remark to me that no reason
able person could study there without
becoming a convert to the system, it
worked so thoroughly well. You could
count on your fingers all those opposed
to tin the senior and junior classes,
at least.'
If were called upon to express in
word the greatest educational need of
the State to-day, / should reply: g Bet
ter teaching in the school-room.'' What
ever may have been our progress in the
past, we must seek to do better work in
the future. Better teaching necessi-
tates better teachers. Teaching is a
profession. 1t must be studied as other
professions are studied. 1t will not dc
to let young persons learn their profess
sion at the expense of the mental and
moral growth of the children. We
must have large supply of teachers
who have been thoroughly and system.
atically trained to their business.
am sure you realize this fact as much
as do.-Hon. j. NJ. Smart, IN Indiana
School Journal.