The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

PAL slS'
The Bishop of Connecticut reports
ten ordinations to the diaconate and
five to the priesthood during the year,
and 1876 combinations.
The General Assembly of the Irish
Presbyterian Church met this year at
Belfast. Prof Witheron was unani-
mously elected Moderator.
The Bishop of Fon du Lac (Episco-
paD reports POPS COMMITMENTS, and
$50 combinations during the year.
There are three parish schools, with
l61 scholars.
Rev. Benjamin Graves, the oldest
member of the Cincinnati Presbytery,
died recently at Huntsville, Ala, aged
eighty-one. He entered the ministry
over fifty years ago.
During the past year the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel
(High Church Anglican) has collected
SAP, 100, with which 547 missionaries
have been supplied.
The Bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, in accordance
with the request of the late General
Conference, have appointed Aug. a
day of fasting and prayer.
The Bishops address at the recent
Diocesan Convention of Long Island
stated that the combinations for the
year were 613, the largest number ever
reported in one year.
The Southern Methodist Church
has fixed the salaries of its Bishops for
the next four years at So, 200, which in
cludes also travelling expenses. The
whole amount is assessed on the various
annual Conferences.
"A prosecution for ritualistic prac-
tees having been set on foot against
Rev. G. F. Lowder, of st. Peters, Lon
don Docks, petition expressing SYM
pathy with him has been signed by
1,702 of his parishioners.
"A public meeting to consider the
present aspects of the Sabbath question
will be shortly held in Philadelphia,
Bishop Simpson is to preside, and adj
dresses are to be made by DR.. C. G.
Currie and George Junkin.
Rev. Isaac w. X. Handy, D. D.,
died June IA, in Philadelphia. He was
a graduate of Jefferson College and
Princeton Theological Seminary, and
spent over forty years in the Presby-
terrain pastorate in Delaware, Mary
land, Missouri, and Virginia.
The annual meeting of the Mis-
sionary and Publishing Boards of the
American Wesleyan Connection have
just been held in Syracuse, N. Y,
where they have publshing-house.
Prosperous missions were reported, es-
pecially in North Carolina and Tennes-
see.
1t not frequently happens that
Presbyterian ministers continue to act
as supplies for the same churches
through several years. AT Hxton,
Wis, a Presbyterian minister has been
regularly installed as pastor after serv-
ing the church as a supply for sixteen
years.
AT the suggestion of Bishop Jack
son, of London thanksgiving services
are to be held for the great acceSsiOns
to the church in India. Since last Octo-
Der more than Is, 900 natives in the Do
cese of Madras have applied for in
struction in Christianity, announcing
their intention of abandoning heathen-
ism.
The following nominations for
Dean of the General Theological Semi
nary, to succeed Bishop Seymour, have
been made by the Trustees: f. A. Hoff-
man, ID. D., P. X. Cady, d. d., Andrew
Oliver, d. D., w. f. Eigenbrodt, d. D.,
Samuel Buel, d. D., Alfred B. Beach,
d. D., Francis Harrison, d. d., James
De Koven, ID. d., and K. H. Jewett, d.
d.
The Primitive Methodists, though
strong in England, are among the weak
est branches of the Methodist family in
this country. They have two small
conferences in this country, one of which
the Eastern-has been held at Wilkes
barre, Pa. 1t reported % ministers and
2,166 members, 81 local preachers, and
So class-leaders. They have two
churches in Brooklyn.
Rev. DR.. W. S. Plumer, one of the
Oldest and most prominent ministers of
the Southern Presbyterian Church,
resident for many years at Columbia,
S. c., has been invited to the pastorate
of the Central Presbyterian Church,
Allegheny City, Pa. He was formerly
Professor in the Western Theological
Seminary in that city, and now holds a
similar position in the Seminary at CO.
lumbia, S. G..
1t has been ascertained by actual
count that the total average attendance
at ten of the leading churches of Boston
is 1888, the full seating capacity of the
churches being 1880. The largest at
tendance was at fremont Temple,
which, with seating capacity of 1000,
had for four Sundays an average at
tendance of 2,093. The average attend
ance at the Park Street Church was a
little over 400.
The General Assembly of the Church
Of Scotland has again refused to modify
the terms of subscription to the
Standards of the Church of Elders, but
it has taken action in favor of the for
mulating of shorter and simpler creed
for the use of the native converts in In
dia. The resolution appointing com
mittee to consider the matter stated
that the practice of requiring subscrip-
lions to the Westminster standards from
native licentiates tends to hinder the
growth of the church in that country.