The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

at Clarkson, N. Y. He had served as a
Baptist minister over forty years, dying
at the age of eighty-three.
-" Six days of the week he's invisi-
BILE, and on the seventh he's incompre-
hensible,' was the account which a dis
satified old lady gave of her pastor and
his ministrations.
Canon Knight, for nearly sixty
years rector of st. Michael's, Bristol,
England, is dead. When an infant he
was taken into the arms OF John Wes-
ley, who gave him his blessing.
"A million and a quarter of Roman
Catholics in the Netherlands form an
"Old Paper" Society, and devote to
the Pope the proceeds of the waste
paper they sell each year. Last year
the sum thus obtained was over 5000.
DO not think that all the poor min
listers are in America. The Bishop of
Manchester says that some of the cler-
gy are so poor that they do not taste
meat more than once or twice week,
and are glad to get cast-otf clothing of
their parishioners.
According to High Church au-
thority the 22,6OO ministers of the
Church of England are divided as fol-
lows: 10000 are in the High Church
party, 5,400 in the Low, $500 in the
Broad, and 300 are for the "most part
colorless nonentities."
In the past ten years the number
of churches (established) in London,
has increased from $40 to S64. In ~
OF these daily communion is held,
eucharistic vestments are used in 80,
incense in Id, altar-lights in So, and the
eastward position is assumed in 179.
Pope Leo XIII. lately received in
the Consistorial Hall some 800 girls of
various ages from six to eighteen.
They We're pupils in the Pontifcal
schools. The girls presented an adj
dress and some finely-worked vestments
to His Holiness. The schools are main
tanned wholly by the Pope.
The Anglo-Continenta Society has
adopted aresolution expressing sympa-
thy with the work of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Mexico. The Re-
formation as it is called, will soon be
an organized church with duly conse-
Grated Bishops. The men for the office
have already been chosen and only
await conservation.
The Free-Thinkers in convention
at Watkins Glen, N. Y, recently
adopted resolutions in which thew con
demned the Comstock postal laws, the
arrest of certain persons for violation
of the laws against obscenity, chaplain
cies in the State or United States insti-
buttons, the use of the Bible in the army
or in public schools; favored woman
suffrage, the taxation of church prop
erty, and saw in the harmony among
Liberals happy omen of future sue
cess.
The Committee of the Church Mis-
sionary Society has called this year for
Sl,050,000 or $4,000 more than the
amount received last year, the largest
income in the history of the Society.
This is an enormous sum of money for
one society to collect; but we have no
doubt that the committee will get what
it asks for. The scale of operations
the Society is conducted upon is mag
niticent in proportion. The results are
commensurate; 1924 native Chris
tians are reported for 1873.
"A young man, candidate for
license as local preacher, recently
preached specimen sermon before the
quarterly conference, in which he said
that, while the body was material and
would perish, the soul was immaterial.
One of the official brethren objected
peremptorily to his license, for the rea-
son that he had uttered the "strangest
doctrine he ever heard from the pulpit"
Tor he had declared that ''the soul was
immaterial-a thing of no value
the Bible says it is worth more than the
whole world"
Rev. George Brown, of the Yves
leyan Mission in New Britain and New
Ireland, gives an account of the evil
dences of cannibalsm he has seen.
There were human hands, jaw-bones,
hands, etc, and notches cut in tree
to record the number of men that had
been killed and eaten there. The pros
poets of the mission are, he says, en-
couraging. The natives are friendly
toward the missionaries and seem to
be willing to be taught. Twenty-six
teachers are employed at eleven sta
tons in New Britain.
The Methodists report the sessions
of two foreign Conferences, one in
Sweden and one in Norway Bishop
Bowman presided at both. In the
Norway Conference three preachers
were received on trial and eight into full
connection. There was an increase of
127 members for the year. In the
Sweden Conference five preachers were
received on trial and seven into full
connection. During the year there was
an increase of five societies, ten local
preachers, and ISL members, and twelve
Sunday Schools, with 929 scholars.
An eminent minister of the Re-
formed Church was approached by a
sinful man who said he wanted to be-
come religious. He also wanted a
hundred dollars. He said that if the
minister would lend him that sum, he
would join the church and also compel
his son, an exceedingly hayward lad,
to study theology with the view of be-
coming a minister. Although such Of
fers as this are not made every day,
the minister was hard-hearted enough
to keep his hundred dollars and let the
sinful man take his outside chances.
Once upon time at one of our