The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Lit IhICeIOH DOl Call III. MCSOSH
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The medical colleges in Chicago
are open to the fair sex.
The Baptists number ., O24, 224 COM
municants in America.
Tits estimated that Christendom has
but 2, ITO ordained foreign missionaries
in the field.
The Bombay Guardian SAYS that
there are now 116 lady missionaries in
India, not including missionaries
wives.
There are thirteen distinct denom-
nations of Methodists in the United
States, aggreg ating a membership of
1915, 600
The Baptists in Texas are seeking
to combine their educational institu-
tions and have one central university
for the State.
There are now ninety native Chinese
preachers connected with missionary
work in the Foochow Methodist Episco-
pal Conference.
Rev. DR.. Alexander Burgess, of
Springfield, Mass, has accepted the
new Bishopric of Quincy, H., and he
will be confirmed without question.
Bishop Burgess, of the Catholic
diocese of Michigan, has issued pas
toral letter against the marriage of
Catholics with Protestants and iniidels.
1t is reported that of the 800 drunk
ards converted and reformed at the
meetings of Moody and Sankey in Bos-
'ton, a year ago, only ten have fallen
away.
In San Francisco they are strongly
opposing the abolition of music or Ian
guages from the public schools. There
is bill in the Legislature to do away
with both.
The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions has commissioned ten mis-
sionary teachers for women in Utah
and two for Alaska, besides having six
in New Mexico.
"A revival has been progressing i'm
st. Paups Universalist Church, Spring
field, Mass, independently of Mr..
Moody 5 work. 1t is represented as an
anomaly in the history of Universalism.
There are, according TO the New
York Herald, $1,000 Protestant girls in
Catholic schools in the United States.
and the Christian at Work has no doubt
that two-thirds of the whole number
are lost to the Protestant churches.
A memorial against confession in
the Church of England has been pre-
scented to the Queen. 1t contains 400
702 signatures, of which 63 are those of
noblemen, &c of ladies of title. 80 Bar
Onets, sc of Members of Parliament,
and 1926 clergymen.
The statistics of the Moravian
Church in this country, just published,
show that there are 9,371 communi-
cants, S,107 Sunday-school scholars,
1,003 Sunday-school officers and teach
ers, and the number received in the
church last year was 504.
The work of revising the authorized
English version of the Bible is paid for
in England by the Syndics of the uni
versity press, who have a copyright in
the book; the expenses of the American
revisers are betrayed by private con-
tributions. No compensation is paid
to the revisers for their labor. 1t is eX-
pected that the work will be completed
in two years.
Joseph Cook says there are six uni
rersals in the Bible, and these have
been mistaken for seventh universal,
which is not there. Universal atone
ment, universal benevolence of God,
universal providential care of God, uni
versal prevalence of the Gospel, univer-
sal resurrection, and universal reign of
Christ-these six universals are in the
Bible. They have been mistaken for
seventh universal-namely universal
salvation--which is not there.
Attention is called to the increased
facilities which are being provided for
the education of the freedmen. The
churches are adding to the number of
their schools year by year, and many of
the State Governments are getting
ready to open schools for their colored
citizens. Texas is about to establish a
university for the education of colored
youths; South Carolina levies taxes for
colored as well as white schools, and in
Louisiana, New Orleans has free school
privileges to all. A colored man is
principal OF one of the city schools.
"A fraternity of societies, to be known
as the Independent Brotherhood of
Christian Believers" has been organ
lied in New England. Its object is
to promote the reign of the Holy
Spirit in human minds, and thus extend
the reign of the Gospel" The organi-
cation is intended to consist of local
brotherhoods, which will be organized
into county, State and national conven-
tons, and finally an Ecumenical Con-
gress. The articles of faith are four in
number and the articles of the consti-
tuition twenty-six. The articles of faith
are such as are held by orthodox
churches. The proceedings of the broth
erhood are intended to be secret.
The Albany argus prints letter
which it says is from jurist of broad
attainments and large experience in
public life in which the writer says: 81
agree with the Governor entirely on the
impolicy and wrong in raising money
by taxation to be wasted on attempts to
accomplish what God Almighty has rem
deredimpossible, viz. To make scholars
and gentlemen out of the mass of man.
kind. The notion that it is better for a
poor boy of common understanding to
have his head fillad with nloriac in.