The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Mr. w. C. Jones, of England, has
given $4,000 for Anglican mission
work in India.
There are III Roman Catholic ms
sionaries among the Indian tribes IN
this country.
The Southern Presbyterian Church
has LII ministers and ia, 576 commu-
nicants,
A Roman Catholic Missionary and
Educational Institution has been opened
at Fort Augustus, Scotland, which,
when completed, will have cost SZoO'-
900.
"A Hindoo scholar, Raj Bahadoor
Dadora Pandurung, has become con-
vert to the Swedenborgian faith, and
has published book in explanation
and defense of Swedenborgen's views.
Evangelist Moody will preach at
the Baltimore City jail every Sunday
morning during the winter.
"A Chinese Tract Society, organ
lied on the principles of the American
Tact Society, has been founded at
shanghai. Its board of managers is to
Je half of foreign missionaries and half
of native Christians.
"A new departure for the Friends.
At their recent annual meeting in In
diana the services were opened with
prayer and singing hymn, and closed
with prayer. singing the long-meter
doXology, and the apostolic benedic'
ton, very similar to other churches.
The best and latest authorities give
the whole population of the world as
|, 23,917, 900, and, as to religious dis
tinctions. divide this number as follows
Roman Catholics, 270,0O0,O 900; Greek
Church, 90,000,000; Protestants of al
sects, 101, 900, 600; Jews, 100000; al
Others, 955, 917,000
The Methodist has discovered 1,00(
families of Brooklyn have left the
Methodist Episcopal Church, most OF
them being those having financial and
social strength. 1t further says that
90 per cent. of these ex-Methodists give
but one reason, and that's the "change-
3leness and uncertainty of the pastor
It, will now be seen how much vi
~ S S'niy I'd energy the Old Catholics OF
, 1"l.H0tind have. For the last five
G va o;, uHt, have enjoyed the favor OF
or, oiSli liberties, and have had
ChuSl' o' M, ges over the mother
on tII,l NOW NOW both bodies are placed
has resf same ,IoIing. Able Michaud
aral I1rsned his p sition as Vicar-Gen-
rea az u ;s Bishop Herzor. for what
"'pi Is Nc precisel, known,
that v, %Hs Iolpd recently in Cincinnati
n rnao whiIe thee were a least 10 0oC
men IN the nume,ous saloo,S and IG boor
gardens of the city SUNDAY Ii "iLt p onI,
lz,4oI persons ATTENDED ali tbsS d. tll
ant churches of the cry Snnd nd , ,'1.,,''
ing though the Catholic cbnrcbSo o. ilol Il,
tbn Nh Ma. peIIer showing. Ofthe u. 487
p tne Methodist churches had , 575 II'
rrGS3yterian 2,211, the Baptist 1 CsS
anu the Protestant Episcopal 1,116
An effort is making in tbo Pc
formed Episcopal Church to do awo T
WIN Uhe observance of Lent as a churci
I'SV' Az recent conference of cIerrv.
men IN Philadelphia it was decided :,
recommend the policy of abandonino
me service to the General StandinS
committee on the ground that the in
diligence in worldly pleasures before
and after Lent is increased by way OF
compensation by enforced abstention
during the season of fasting, and upon
the further ground that uniform mod
Grafton of life is the Church's great
need, and that this may be better Sc
cured without Lenton observances than
with them.
The anniversary of the American
Missionary Association, held at Taun-
ton, Mass, during the last days of Oc-
tober, was largely attended. The year
has been prosperous. The debt has
been reduced $4,000, leaving only
$4,000 to be paid. The total receipts
for 1873 were S195, sol, the expendi-
lures S1SS,079, Great attention has
been paid during the year to normal
schools, the demand for teachers among
the freedmen being very great. There
are still 3,250,000 persons in the South
unable to read, over a million of them
voters. Five new churches have been
organized; the present number sup
ported by the association is sixty-four.
The next anniversary will probably be
held in Chicago.