The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Roman Catholics of New En-
gland are estimated at 100000.
The Reformed Episcopal Church is
gaining ground in England.
The Chicago Baptist University
has declared its inability to pay its
debts.
In nine years the Presbyterians
have organized hundreds of churches
on the Pacific coast.
The second revision of the New
Testament has reached the middle OF
Romans XII.
in the Reformed Church of France,
out of COS pastorates, 81 are vacant.
"A gentleman in New York has
given Sl0,000sto Adrian (Mich.) col.
lege.
Scotland reports $4,000 teachers
and 100000 scholars in its Sunday,
schools.
The First Reformed Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia has a class OF
Chinese pupils.
Three hundred colored students are
attending Fisk University, at Nashville,
Tennessee.
The Harvard freshmen refuse to
make their race with Cornell freshmen
siX-oared one, as the latter asked.
The American Bible Society an
nounces that thus far during the cur
rent year the expenditures have exceed
ed the donations by $4,000.
The FIJI Islands contain 10000
Christians, giving $4,000 year to re-
ligious objects. Fifty years ago they
were savages.
The Rev. John Baker, who preached
the first sermon ever heard in Mar
shall, Tex, died there recently, at the
age of eighty-fve.
The meeting of the Pan-Anglican
Synod, to be held in Lambeth Palace
July 2; will extend over four weeks.
The American Board of Mission,
according to the British Quarterly, has
done more for the evangelization and
actual uplifting of Turkey than any
other modern Christian organization.
Summer schools for special studies
are becoming a feature. Agassiz' ex-
pertinent at Penikese, in 1873, was the
first and drew together quite number
of enthusiastic naturalists.
Trade dollars are still taken in
church collections; that is to say, when
anybody chooses to put them in. But
the lower denominations of silver are
more generally used.
New Haven is busy erecting an i'm
mense temporary building for the use OF
Moody and Sankey, whose services are
to begin there on the third Sunday in
March. The building, which will cost
$4,000, will seat 5000 persons.
Attention is called by the Morning
Star to the fact that in no denomina-
ton is belief in endless punishment
more general than in the Methodist,
and yet the church possesses in its creed
no written statement of the doctrine.
The singers in the choir galleries
are indignant at Moody. He has ex-
pressed himself very strongly against
the ungodly persons who sing in church
choirs and occupy the time of the SER
mon in writing love letters and eating
candy and peanuts.
The Free Presbytery of Glasgow
COlilllllllCC W COllSlucl
what steps can be taken, in concert
with other bodies, to "promote the con
version of the Roman Catholic priests
and people to the true faith of the Cos
pei of Christ.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
claims to have now 1856 itinerant
preachers and over u, 900 local preach
ers, with LAB, 600 members in 16,099
churches. 1t has 1878 Sunday-schools
and 1,706,777 officers, teachers and
scholars.
President f. r. Tenny says the Ro.
man Catholic Church spends S500,00(
year upon the freedmen, and counts
100000 of them in its schools. II
has nearly 10000 young men in its
higher schools and seminaries, with 75(
professors, mostly Jesuits. There are
500, 600 scholars in its schools of lower
grade. There are seven religious Or
ders of men and thirty-three of women
to whom this work is committed.
The first term of the North Carroll
ma Colored Normal School has beer
very successful The students were
diligent and persevering, and made
rapid progress. The Superintendent
report says: 1.-The presence of female:
has a refining influence on the manners
of the males, and their reciting togeth
er in the same class creates lively in
terest and incites spirit of healthy
emulation. In department and schol
arship the females have shown them
selves in no wise inferior to the males
and the school would be deprived OF
some of its brightest students and mos
promising teachers if females were no
admitted''.
Review OF Fashions.