The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Quaker churches of Iowa re-
ceived PIP by request in the past year.
One hundred and eighty-five Bap-
fist churches in Iowa have no Sunday
schools.
DR.. Storrs completed, Nov. oath,
ais thirty-second year as pastor of the
Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn.
The fines against Cardinal Ledo-
chowski, levied by the Prussian courts
for infracton of the May laws, now
amount to a total of $4,000.
The disciplining by trial of two
lady members of Trinity Methodist
Church, Chicago, for leasing land for a
beer garden closed with conviction,
mercy and forgiveness.
There are now forty-six organiza-
tions known as the Railroad Men S
Christian Association in the United
States, with an active membership of
$500 and an associate membership of
over 10000 railroad men. The first
was formed in 1872 at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Churchnl0n says: Zone of
the most grievous things Which lie at
the door of so many of our churches is
their eXclusiveness touching the poorer
classes. 1t seems as if our Lord teach
ing in this respect had in some sort
been inverted"
Roman Catholic bishops under
new Papal . brief" are no longer to
exercise absolute power over their do
ceses. The parish priest is to be rector,
removable not at the episcopal pleas
ure, but only upon conviction of some
ecclesiastical or moral otfense before a
clerical court.
Missionaries of the Sunday school
Union in the Northwest have organized
since March LIST 276 new schools and
aided 985 others, all OF which have a
membership of $4,000. One thousand
and siXty-one religious meetings were
held, and 2,799 families visited. The
whole work has been done at less than
One-half the cost of a recent criminal
conviction in Western court of
justice.
Bishop Wilmer, Episcopal Bishop
of Louisiana, who died recently, was q
native of Swedesborough, n. j. He
was born in 1912, ordained Deacon at
Alexandria, Va, in 1884. He spent
nearly all his life in the South, chiefly
in Virginia, though he was Chaplain in
the United States Navy a while, and
Rector of ST. Marks, Philadelphia, a
short time. He was consecrated Bishop
in 1866.
The Synod of the Reformed Church
met at Berlin the last of October, and
presented sight unusual in Germany,
that of perfect accord between the or
thodox and the liberals. In the capital,
it was reported, churches are going to
decay, and pastors for months have had
no means of living on account of the
lack of necessary funds. The Synod
decided to ask the Protestants of Ber-
lin to voluntarily raise the sum of 200,-
600 marks, which will, however, not
compensate for the loss to the church
treasures by the abolition OF perqui-
sites.
The Classical and Bible College,
Binghampton, N. Y, is full to over
flowing. 1t affords board, tuition and
music free of charge to young ladies
having mission work in view, and to
daughters of deceased or disabled cler-
gymen or missionaries. Almost every
State in the Union is represented, and
even the Territories and foreign ma.
onalities-Cuba, Peru, Scotland, Rus
STA, Germany, Australia, etc. A recent
arrival was a Russian JewesS, whose
birthplace was the top of Mount Zion,
half way between the houses of David
and Solomon.
There are now in Japan 106 Prot
estant missionaries and forty-four or
ganized churches. OF these congrega-
tions twelve are wholly self-supporting
and twenty-siX partially. There are
1,6l7 church members, (native con-
verts), large proportion being men,
who have contributed in the year 1877
the sum of So, 552l1. Gradually lib
eral, self-supporting Christian church
is being developed in Japan. Hopeful
to this end there are now three theo-
logical schools, with 100 students in
course of preparation. There are al
ready nine native ordained preachers
and ninety-three assistant preachers.
In the mission hospitals nearly $4,000
patients were treated last year.
The Pope having received copy
OF speech delivered DS Ine president
of the Order of American Union,
(which breathes the most deadly ha-
tired to the Catholic religion, and in
which most villainous schemes are
offered for its utter eXtirpation, were
such a thing possible" admonishes the
Bishops of America through the Arch
bishop of Baltimore, to inform them.
selves of the arts and schemes OF
this and similar societies, " in order
that they may the more readily guard
the faithful from their wiles, and, al
the same time, adopt such means as
will protect the church from any dam
age which might result to her from the
plots of these impious and goddess
men,"