The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-MurucT6TS are COuN6Ibcu SOOlcI
than less wicked sinners.
The annual income of the Church
of England is about 36,000,000.
-Debt-raising just now with the
churches Is popular. 1t ought to be en-
couraged.
The Fiji Islands contain $4,000
Christians, who give $4,000 year to
religious objects.
-Utica's Free Academy maidens are
flourishing the festive bat, and ricochet-
ing the battling ball.
The Rev. Olympia Brown has ac-
cepted the pastorate of Universalist
Church at Racine, Wis.
Widow Van Colt says she will
preach, and neither John Wesley nor
St. Paul can stop her.
1t is claimed that there were 1000
conversions during the Hartford revival,
under Messrs. Moody and Pentecost.
In England the church members
who are employed in bar-rooms are not
allowed to partake of the communion.
The number of clergy ordained in
the Anglican Church during Lent has
been unusually small, amounting to only
1856.
"A remarkable revival exists in the
African NJ. f. Church at Columbia, S.
G. Over GOO new members have been
received.
Minnesota is a Lutheran State,
having more Lutherans among its pop
ulation than of any other denomination.
They number $4,000.
Ministers who are shrewd and
want to save themselves trouble will
never NEEDLE with the money matters
or music of their church.
1t is stated that the classes at the
preparatory schools are much larger
than usual this year, acquiring large
freshman classes at our colleges next
fall.
Great activity is displayed by Prot
estants in the distribution and sale of
the Bible throughout Italy. Copies can
readily be had in the bookstores of
Rome.
The American Bible Society has
issued new and neat edition of the
New Testament for five cents, and one
Of the complete Bible for quarter of
dollar.
"A Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity
has been formed in England, composed
exclusively of members of the univer-
sites, for the furtherance of ritualistic
principles.
DR.. M'Ferrin states that the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, has in
creased $4,000 members since the close
of the war, and since the separation of
the colored work.
The New England Methodist Con-
ference reports %, $50 members, a gain
of ISL, and 3,210 probationers, de-
crease of sos. The total of benevolent
contributions was S30,S27.
The Roman Catholics have pur-
chased 1000 acres of land in Mecklen-
burg County, Va, on which they pro-
pose to erect an industrial farm for col
onizing and educating the freedmen.
DR.. Poor, Secretary of the Presby-
terrain Board of Education, says that
1.-The habit of applying for vacant
places in swarms is having the effect
of bringing the ministry into con-
tempt
The Catholic party in Rome has
been compactly organized and disci-
plined, and intends to put forth the
strongest efforts to carry the next city
elections. Property-holders only are
legal voters.
While there are so many ministers
in the country who have no churches
and would like to be settled, it is pleas
ant to know that in New Zealand there
are about forty churches that are badly
in want of pastors.
A young woman applying for the
situation ofgoverness to avillage school,
being questioned by the clergyman as to
her qualifications, replied: 81 amt
much of an arithmeticker; but Pm an
elegant grammarest.
AS the result of Episcopal mission
airy efforts among the Southern negroes,
there are now thirty-seven Episcopal
chapels at the South, ffty-seven clergy
men and teachers, five of whom are
colored, and one colored evangelist.
From the last report of the Irish
Church Commissioners it appears that
S73,787, $50 has been expended so far
in the process of disestablishing the
church. Of this amount about one
sixth has been absorbed by the clergy
and other church officers.
"A comparison of the strength of
the leading ecclesiastical families in
this country gives the following results:
Ministers. Members.
Methodist Observation-Disclosures. 2271S 1928, 400
Baptist. Observation-Disclosures. 1884 2,1414l1
Presbyterian .............. 1905 S57,S5S
Congregationalist .. 1885 35O,65S
Protestant Episcopal. ..... 1926 S1,9T
Edward Everett Hale says that the
voices of American women are too gen
orally high and harsh, and he ascribes
this fact to the custom in schools of
making the children "read up loud"
He would like to see placarded in every