The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
There have been 252 Popes.

place of worship.
Of 1877 Wesleyan theological stu
dents in England 161 are abstainers from
intoxicating drink.
The want of the day is some good
apostle who will put a stop to any more
church-debt making.
The Missouri Lutherans have ap-
pointed their first missionary for work
among the Southern negroes.
The girls of Swarthmore (Quaker)
College are not allowed to wear false
hair, trained skirts or jewelry.
The Congregational Church in Fair
mount, Mimi, recently dedicated their
house of worship free of debt, as an ex-
ample to others.
The United Presbyterian Ministerial
Association, of Pittsburgh, condemns
church fairs as means of raising money
for church purposes.
The Universalists report a gain of
$500 members during the past five years
in the United States. They have SOL
church organizations.
In the State of New Hampshire Pc
titions are in circulation for the restora-
ton of Bible reading or some religious
service in the public schools.
The expenses of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College last year were
$22,567 and the receipts 1924, 1856. For
the first time the farm was self-support-
ing.
The leading Jewish pastors in the
city of New York receive the following
salaries: DR.. Gottheil, $4,000; DR..
Einom, $4,000; DR.. Huebsh, $4,000;
DIR. Jacobs, $4,000.
The Reformed Episcopal Church,
which now has seventy-eight ministers,
including five Bishops, has had an i'm
portant accession in the person of the
Rev. VIM. Newton, of Philadelphia.
-" What is the best remedy" asked
preacher, of shrewd observer for
an inattentive audience?'' "Give them
something to attend to- was the sig
niticant reply; hungry sheep will
look up to the rack if there is hay in it.
Mr. Kimball has lifted, or helped
to lift, the debts of twenty-three
churches of the Presbyterian, Episco-
pal, Congregational and Methodist de-
nominations. The aggregate of debts
thus provided for is S760,000.
The highest sense of humor de-
veloped by Yale students is the stealing
of poor tradesman's sign and putting
it up in the wrong place. The young
men laugh heartily when they have
misplaced a sign, and the action fills
their intellectual wants.-Net0 Orleans
Ptcayune.
DR.. Mary Putnam-Jacobi, who re-
ceived the Boyleston medical prize at
Cambridge-the judges supposing they
were giving it to a man-has just been
honored by areception in Boston. The
Boyleston prize was good enough in its
way, but the Boston reception settles
definitely her intellectual status.
A good minister (save for one bad
habiD lately missed call to good
Michigan church because he used to-
bacco. The fathers and mothers said
their boys would learn vice fast enough
without the example of their minister
Good Christians said the cigar money
might better go to pay home and for
eign missionaries.-The Congregation
dliSt
The Methodist preachers of Boston
have resolved "that all attempts to re-
form the theater are utopian and vain,
and that we can hold no relation toward
this school of vice but that of stern, I'M
relenting, Christian hostility; and we
earnestly recommend to all people who
would support good morals in society
to persistently abstain from attendance
upon the theater."
Mr.. Moody, in a discourse at Hart
ford, Conn, recently, said that no man
could ever be saved by good works,
adding: Suppose man got to heaven
by his good deeds; there would be no
living there with him; he would be al
ways talking about himself; he would
have harp in corner all by himself,
where he would keep singing all the
time about his good deeds"
Whatever may be the comparative
numbers of the stricter and the looser
party-be the minority as small as any
may fairly claim-there is a minority; it
is considerable in number, and more con-
siderable in character and position; and
while they continue in the full fellowship
of the denomination, the doctrine of the
eternity of punishment cannot be pro-
nounced test of Congregational ortho-
doxy.-Ihe boston and B0ptiStJ Watch
man.
Henry Ward Beecher has r'itten a
letter to the Rev. Mr.. Morr editor
of the Baltimore PreSbyteri Neebly,
in which he says: my work ympa-
thies go with the evangelical Va lhodox
ministry. Irefuse to be held to con-
sistency with any dogmatic system of
theology of the past. ! am with Calvin
and against Calvin; 1 am with Arminius
and against Arminius; 1 am with Epis-
copacy and against Episcopacy; l am
with the Roman Church and against,
my object being, not to build or defend
any system of theology or government,
but to bring men near to God and build
them up in holiness of life.'
HE LEADS US ON.
He leads us on
BY paths we did not know,
Upward He leads us, though our steps be slow,
Though oft we faint and 1alCer by the way,
Though storms and darkness oft obscure the
day, ..
Yet, when the clouds are gone,
We know He leads us on.
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