The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

II Sunday schools.
1T has been estimated that each
lnhabitant of the United States paws
$2.Oz for the support of the public
schools.
The Seventh Day Adventists. a
small but very energetic body, proposes
to raise 100000, in two years, for their
mission in Great Britain.
The German Baptists in this
country have over 115 churches and
$50 active ministers, 125 Sunday-schools
and ], 26S teachers.
The Catholics report sixtv-seven
conversions to their faith in England
within a fortnight, including eleven
clergymen of the Established Church.
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has received silver, and
the Boston University bronze, medal.
for their exhibits at the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
st. Louis has 176 churches, of which
AZ are Catholic, 26 Presbyterian, %
Methodist 10 Baptist, Is Episcopal, 10
Lutheran, Congregational, and 3
Unitarian.
~ pOaic3 vi bllG L GdDOuN
Educational Fund, announces that the
fund has fallen off forty per cent. 1t is
said good share of it was invested in
Southern securities.
The Marquis of Butte has given
S25, 200 toward a fund for the erection
of Roman Catholic Cathedral at Dun
dee, to commemorate the re-establish-
ment ofthe bishopric of Dunkeld, which
ceased about 292 years ago.
Only 100000 pupils are enrolled
IN Russia, which has a population of
SO,OOO,OO0. In Finland, however,
which has more independence, and is
mainly protestant, every child, it is
said, of sound health and mind, is able
to read.
The stewards books of Vassar Col
lege show that the students consumed
during the past year 81, 1882 pounds of
fresh meats, 1866 pounds of sugar,
$50 gallons of molasses, 1902 bananas.
1862 oranges, and twenty-One kegs of
pickles.
The natural history department of
the University of Virginia has recently
been given $4,000 by w. w. Cor
coran, OF Washington. An incumbent
OF the chair will be elected by the Re-
gents of the University on the 18th
inst, at salary of $4,000.
The celebrated Old Tennent
Church, the landmark of the Mon
moeth battle-ground, was struck by
Lightning during late storm and set
on fire, but the buildingwas saved from
destruction by the prompt action of the
citizens of Freehold.
The Bible Society now publishes
books at Constantinople, Beirut, Bre-
men, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Foo
chow, Shanghai, Lodiana, Lucknow,
Yokohama, Bangkok, and Vienna.
Some versions can be published cheaper
at these points than in New York.
The first 400 children admitted to
Mr.. Surgeons orphanage in London
were divided as follows respecting re-
ligioHs belief: Church of England, 1874;
Baptist, SO; Congregational, At; Wes-
leyan, A; Presbyterian, 9; Roman
Catholic. 2; Plymouth Brethren, 2; not
specified, 70.
"A liberal friend of the English
Church Missionary Society, who had
always contributed large amounts for
missionary work, has offered 1925, 900
to the society, to be invested for the
development of the native church in
India. From another person comes an
offer of 1926, 900 for similar object.
AT the New York State Universal
ist Convention the Clinton Liberal In
stitute was reported to have an endow-
ment fund of about $4,000. There
has been warm contest for several
years over the proposal to remove it to
Fort Plain. A ma ority of the conven-
ton were in favor of the removal.
A lady who has preserved general
good health through fifty years of hard
work as a teacher, attributes it chiefly
to habit of spending the afternoons
out of doors. Her remedy for nervous
WEAKNESS and languor is not to lie
down, but to seek the refreshment of
open air and gentle movement.
There are in England and Wales
$4,000 school departments, visited by
royal inspectors, and accommodating
$3.50, 900 pupils. There were enrolled
last year on the registers 100000, but
the average daily attendance was only
2,150,000, showing that only two out
of every three children registered were
in attendance.
Shall Women Vote?-The question
referred to the Lutheran conference at
the last session, viz: "Shall the
women of our congregations be al
lowed to vote at the election of pas
torP' has been fully discussed by the
conferences, and they have passed reso-
buttons against such a privilege.
Joseph Cook does not put the mat
ter of Sunday observance too strong
when he says: 81 am no fanatic,
hope, as to Sunday; but l look abroad
over the map of popular freedom in the
world, and it does not seem to me
accidental that Switzerland, Scotland,
England and the United States--the
countries which best observe Sunday
constitute almost the entire map of safe
popular Government"
"A Catholic paper has information
from Sioul, the capital of Corea, that
Bishop Ridel and two of his mission
aries who escaped the massacre of
1866 have been arrested and thrown
into prison. At the latest dates from
Corea the Bishop was still alive and
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