The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

has decided to retain the study of Ger
man in the public schools.
The teacher who makes his schol-
airs smart is not always the one who i'm
parts the most instruction.
DIR. Putnam, of Roxbury, Mass,
has written 1,610 sermons during his
forty-eight years of ministry.
The twelfth anniversary of the Uni
versal Peace Union will be held at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on June 8.
No proposal for canonization can
be entertained in the Roman Catholic
Church until a person has been dead
fifty years.
80 Should ministers be compensated
for their services in attending funer-
als?' is an absorbing topic among cler-
gymen just now.
Over 100 members of st. Bartholo-
news, Brighton, England have joined
the Church of Rome since the secession
of the two curates.
1t is bad policy to worry about fill
ing your church. See that your pulpit
is properly filled, and then the church
will take care of itself.
Dayton, Ohio, aspires to renown
by announcing that sixteen of the young
lady teachers in the city schools are to
be married during the summer.
-TObacco-using ministers are not
desired by the Providence Methodist
Conference. 1t has requested the Bish-
ops not to send them any such persons.
Over 10000 men were provided
with employment by the various Young
Mems Christian Associations, through
out the country, during the past year.
The Catholics have bought 1000
acres of land in Mecklenburgh County,
Va, on which they are going to estab-
fish an industrial farm for educating
freedmen.
The City Council of Rome have
voted to allow religious instruction to
be given in the public schools to all pu-
pills whose parents desire it, but at sep
arate and fixed hours.
Grace Methodist Church, Baltimore,
introduced an innovation into Method
ism last month by the observance of
passion Week" Services were held
daily, morning and evening.
AT Amherst College the revival has
added twenty-seven to the church. One
of the number was a native Japanese
Only twice before in the history of the
college have an equal number confessed
their faith at any one time.
The proposal to tax the larger sal
aries of Methodist ministers l per cent
for the relief of the ministers who re-
ceive small salaries is growing in favor
1t was adopted at the recent session of
the New England Conference.
The college professors prove that
knowledge is not only power but wealth.
Prof. Dwight is assessed on SOL, 290; ex-
President Woolsey, S47, 1923; Prof. The
odore S. Woolsey, S46,818; Prof Benja-
min Silliman, S37 800, and Prof James
NJ. Hoppin, $34,781.
The Old Catholic cause in Switzer-
land is prospecting greatly. During the
year many new priests have been or
dained or received, and there has been
q large increase of members In some
cases whole parishes have gone over
from the Roman Catholic.
Boys understand the art of getting
at the meat of things. And the boy hit
the nail on the head when, being asked
where hell was, he replied ITS any
where outside of heaven" The boy is
right, and there is no use in discussing
its locality.-ChriStian at Work.
During the first half of its current
financial year the American Missionary
Association has received SS5, 1852. 1t
has also received S9,921 toward the
payment of its debt, and pledges S6,950
more, to be paid on condition that the
entire debt shall be paid within the
year.
You need not be afraid of giving
too much. The old darkey said: IF
any OBJ you know OBJ any church what
died OBJ liberality jes' tell me whar it is,
an will take a pilgrimage to it, an
by de soft light OBJ de pale moon | will
crawl upon its moss-covered roof an
write upon de topmost single: Blessed
am de dead who die in de Lord"
1t appears from the report made to
the International Sunday-school Con-
vention at Atlanta that there are $50
Sunday-schools in the United States,
with 6,423, 2S5 scholars. New York
sta Als at the head of the list of States,
with 903, 1899 scholars; Pennsylvania is
next, with 7S2, ops; and Ohio is third,
with 621 ,702.
An African Methodist Episcopal
Conference which met in Baltimore re-
Gently issued a protest against the dis
elimination of the School laws of Mary
land in regard to the colored race.
Their children are excluded from the
white schools, and placed under sep
arate system of instruction, and yet are
not allowed colored teachers.
The work of women in the public
schools is, on the whole, excellent.
Those who are failures are not in fault;
it is the imperfect system which per-
mits ill-educated, unapt girls to take
charge of lower-grade schools that de-
serves blame. The Cincinnati CONNER
cjal says of the competent teachers
"Thework in these grades, the hardest,
steadiest and most perpleXing work In
cur whole system of instruction, is done
by our $500 and 800 women teachers.
1t would be the basest ingratitude tc
cut down their scanty earnings, and il
would seriously affect the usefulness OF
the schools besides. The best teachers
in the district schools could certainly dc
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