The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A Jacksonville Qll.) college club
call themselves 1.-The Phosphates.
The city of Milwaukee will not al
low ministers to teach in her public
schools.
Mrs. Van Colt closed her three
weeks labors at Buffalo with over 600
professed conversions. SEQ .....
There is only one denomination in
New York city, the Friends, who are
entirely free from debt.
Mr.. Surgeons church has now
5000 members, having had a net in
crease of 100 the last year.
Three of the Bishops of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church were origiA
nally ethodiSts-Cummins Nicholson
and Fallows.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage says he believes
the time will come when every promi-
nent church will have a hospital on one
side and bakery on the other
Great numbers of Roman Catholic
priests in Germany are taking unto
themselves wives, the law of the En-
pire giving protection to such unions.
An encouraging sign in Tennessee
is the fact that the average school at
tendance throughout the State last year
was II per cent. greater than the year
before
A Wauregan Conn. man who was
in poor health became so much inter-
ested in the Moody and Sankey meet
ings at Hartford that he went crazy
and died. ...
In seven years the students of Tai
ladega Gala. College, for colored youth,
have organized Sunday-schools in
which have been taught over 10000
scholars.
The Israelite complains of % a screw
loose in Jewish society, of g gorgeous
temples with their slim attendance,
well paid and gifted ministers, with no
audiences"
The expenses of the late Papal con-
elave amounted to 100000 francs.
Provisions, medicines. etc., had been
stored up for three months, in anticipa-
ton of prolonged session. ....-....
The Baptists report the following
statistics in Wisconsin: Associations,
IL; churches, 100; pastors, 90; ordained
illiI4lolOl % LOU lllCAlAbClos IisilJ' h'tbD-
bath-schools, 1873; scholars, 1,643.
The first congregation Of Scandina-
Wan Lutherans in the United States was
organized about twenty years ago.
Now there are 968 congregations, with
332 ministers and 49, 900 commune
cants. ..... ...
There is a great deal Of theology in
the idea Of the little girl who wished
she could be good without obeying her
grandmother She said it was easy
enough to read books and pray, but it
was pretty hard to mind grandmother.
This is the way that Mr.. Moody
talks in his openingmeetings: eve want
revival of Righteousness in this coun-
try, of honesty, truth and equity, and
would give nothing for a mere revival
of sentiment, of feeling and singing
Monmouth Qn.) College is another
institution which is in hot water over
the secret-society business; the faculty
and students have been at swords
points for several weeks. and several of
the latter have been expelled.
In the School of Medicine connect
ed with the Boston University SO stu
dents are women, and Is of the ~ grad
yates were women. The standing of
the men and women in the eXamina-
tons differed but one-seventeenth OF
per cent. in favor of the men.
-Presbyterianism has grown but lit
tie in Baltimore. DR.. Backus stated in
a sermon recently that when he entered
Baltimore, forty-two years ago, it had
;nh nl te Il EH-a Ch,rta n
churches. The population is now more
than four times $4,000 and yet the Pres
byterian churches number only four
teen.
The Presbyterians carry on mis-
sionary work among the Senecas, in
New York; the Chippewas, in Wiscon-
sin; the Omahas, in Nebraska; the Da-
kotas, in Dakota Territory, and the
Nez Perces Indians, in Idaho. The
number of Christian Indians in these
several missions is about 1,600. The
number of Indians assigned to the
church by the Governments "a, 1874.
Ladies are likely to profit by the
Eastern war. Dealers in human hair
have been travelling lately through Bull
garia and Roumania and buying up all
the tresses the unfortunate wives and
daughters of the refugees are willing to
sell. Some of these tresses are said to
be over three feet long, and all those of
blonde and auburn shades are sent to
this country.
" BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN
Ance had a wife o. my ain,
An ingle warm and bright,
A candle in my window set
To cheer me hame at night. ...
And now the wife's in heaven aboon
An through it's open door,
Heavens glory haudng up my heart
Across earth's lanely moor.
Ance had bit bonnie farm.
And watched for rain and shine,
But moo look on a the land,
And a. the land seems mine.
And in the vera sun i the lift
feel to have my share:
There's something in me sib to all
That's living anywhere. .
An thochts come ben, Gamma tell;
In talk they'd only look
Like butterflies VII pins struck through
And fastened in a book. @
I'd rather let them flutter out
On Gods own bonnie trees:
The eyes may aften ha' glimpse
o. what hands shouldn't seize.
There's depth in life man Gamma sound,
There's height he Gamma reach, .H.
But there's Light that shines for all,
And there's WAY for each, ''l
IL T.