The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Interior has finally been g com
PEELED to admit the value of lager as {
means of promoting temperance"
There is. an exodus of ministers tC
Europe. Most of them are more or less
affected with ministerial sore throat.
The Catholic Columbian advises its
readers to keep away from Hammond
revival meetings. Better for them tc
play ball, checkers, or the fiddle, 90 to
the circus, or roam in the woods and
gather wild flowers.
The Standard is not inclined 10
take much stock in the religious views
of Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
for the reason that the saloon from
which he was graduated cannot be
looked upon as a theological authority.
A copy of the famous Mazarine BIZ
BILE is about to be sold at the Hotel
Drouot. This edition dates from the
fifteenth century, is printed on parch-
ment, only seven were ever made, and
the last copy discovered sold for ST.
900.
AT a recent meeting of the Montpe-
lier Minister'S Club "the form of invi-
tatiOn to the Lords supper was dis
cussed, the prevailing opinion being in
favor of limiting the invitation to MEM
bers OF good standing in Evangelical
churches.
DR. Barbour, of Yale College, COM
pairing recent with former revivals, SAYS,
among other things: "Another factor
of the change is in the service of song.
1t is now of prancing style. Men go
dancing, as it were, into the kingdom
of heaven
The British contributions to foreign
missions the past year were very large
The Church of England raised 50, 129,-
$50; the joint societies, 1874, 740; the
Nonconformist societies, S1,503, 655; the
Scotch and Irish Presbyterian societies,
1871, 740; the Roman Catholics, 1872
1876, making grand total of SIS, 242, 41O.
The Chinese Sunday-school of the
First Congregational Church of San
Francisco has just celebrated its tenth
anniversary. About 25O Chinese were
present, and an overlooking audience
listened to an address by Jee Gam and
DIR. Mclean. The Stockton Chinese
school has had sixty-four scholars dur
ing the year.
Intelligence from India shows re-
markable increase in the number of
converts. The Bishop of Madras reck-
ons about $4,000 baptized natives in his
diocese, though there were not so, 900
in 1862. In China some progress is
made, but in Japan there are only
lightweight native Christians. There
is such thing as making haste slowly.
The clergy of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in New York who svmpa-
thize with Ritualism are preparing an
address of coincidence and sympathy to
be forwarded to the Rev Mr.. Mackon-
ochie, the incumbent of St. Adams,
Holborn, London, who was recently
sentenced by Lord Penzance to three
years suspension from the priesthood,
with cost of proceedings, because of his
Ritualistic practices.
The UniverS augurs the approach
ing downfall of the new German schism
from the fact-among others-that the
one solitary congregation of "Old
Catholics in Bavaria, that of Mering,
near Augsburg, has just sent deputa-
ton, headed by the Mayor of the place,
to the Bishop of Augsburg, to abjure
their errors, to make reparation, and to
ask to be received back into the COM
munion of the church.
Grace Church in New York is to
h ave a "reredos'' costing $4,000 A
reredos is screen back of the altar.
When Jesus was on earth, a boat or
well-curb was good enough pulpit for
him. and all the reredos he had was a
mountain side, or the homely walls of
a cottage in Bethany, or of an upper
room in an humble house. How Chris
tianity must have improved when it re-
quires $4,000 "reredos'' to set it off.
-NeU COUendnt.
The Jewish Conference at Paris
will take the form of a Pan-Jewish
Council. The following questions are
to be considered: l. The development
of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. 2.
The means to be employed to extend
the action of lsraelites in favor of their
co-religionists. 3. Schools. 4. Ameli-
Grafton of the Israelites of the Orient
and in Africa by professional work and
agriculture. 5. Statistics. America
will be well represented.
-Co-operation between the North
ern and Southern Baptist Churches is
now proposed on a novel plan. The
Home Missionary Society of the North
ern Church proposes to pay part of the
salaries of missionaries to labor among
the colored folks and let the Southern
Church pay the rest, and do the over
seeing Unless some such arrangement
as this is made, the probability is that
the work will not be done among the
negroes, for funds are very scanty with
the Southern Baptists.
There are 800 or 400 Chinese in
Chicago, and, through the efforts of the
Rev. Mr.. Jones, Sunday-school for
their benefit was opened in Farwell
Hale on a recent Sunday after
noon. Mr.. Jones has worked among
the Chinese employed in building the
Central Pacific Railroad. He has per-
sonal acquaintance with many Chinese
in this city, and several of them have
indicated willingness to attend Sun
day-school. Mr.. Jones intends to carry
the war into Africa, by going to the
Celestial Kingdom as missionary next
year.
The Assassination OF Mr.. Lincoln.