The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

be elected Bishop.
The total preaching power of the
English Methodist churches amounts
to $4,000 preachers, the great majority
of whom are laymen.
The Baptist Missionary Union has
received thus far in the present finan-
cial year $78,358 1t needs $150,000
between now and April l, to meet its
liabilities.
Among the private audiences re-
Gently given by the Pope was one for
Monsignor Hostlot, who was the bearer
of $4,000 francs in gold from Cardinal
McCloskey.
The number of clergy in the Epis-
copal Church of Ireland is decreasing
greatly. At disestablishment there
were 1880, now there are but 1879, a
clear loss of 701.
The South Carolina Methodist Con-
ference (Northern) reports 27,044
members and 6,299 probationers, 243
churches and 347 local preachers, show
ing that it has grown rapidly. The col
lections, however, are extremely small,
indicating poverty.
According to one of the Lutheran
almanacs, the Lutheran communion in
this country gained last year fifty-two
ministers. eighty-seven congregations,
and 1877 members. According to
another, the gain of ministers was
thirty-nine, and of congregations forty
eight, while there was a loss of ID, 603
members.
Japan is rapidly improving in the
matter of education. There are seven
teen public schools at Hakodadi; there
are also number of private schools
there. In other parts of the island
there are thirty Government schools.
During the past year industrial schools
have been established, wherein girls
are taught spinning, weaving, sewing
and washing, besides writing, reading
and arithmetic.
1t has been resolved to melt the old
church bells in St. Peters, at Zurich,
and to cast new ones from the old
metal. One of the set, however, known
as "Schlaggeocke" was cast in 1894,
and is, therefore, fifty-seven years
older than the union of Zurich with the
Swiss Republic, which took place in
1851. Efforts have been made by the
Antiquarian Society to save the bell
from destruction.
The Church of England Sunday
school Institute has made arrange
ments for the centenary of Sunday
schools. The programme comprises
simultaneous services and meetings to
be held during the centenary week,
from June 27 to July 4, throughout the
United Kingdom and the colonies.
Special services will be held in West
minister Abbey and ST. Paul Cathedral.
There will be conference at Lambeth
Palace, where also gathering of chill
dren will take place.
"A correspondent notices great &C
tivity among the Presbyterians in
church building. In Edinburgh the
United Presbyterian Church has no
fewer than six churches in course of
erection in the city and neighborhood,
all of an ornate kind. The Free Church,
having come into possession of most of
its edifices so recently as 1S43, does not
stand in the same need of new accom-
mediation, but it displays great activity
in meeting the wants of rising districts.
In some places, too, the congregations
have outgrown the provisions made for
them thirty years ago, and to this many
fine modern churches are due. The es-
Enlistment is no less active in this
matter, and church extension has come
to be recognized as duty of the first
Importance by all the great religious
bodies in the land.
Says the Ledger Standard: cat
the recent meeting of the California
teachers Mr.. Slade, of the Quincy School
Committee, said that in that town they
don't believe in setting inexperienced
teachers to teaching the youngest chill
dren; they promote teachers to the pri-
mary department. They do not allow
any teacher to experiment on that
which is most tender and most easily
injured. 1t takes, he said. double the
capacity, ingenuity, patience and expe-
rience to teach child of five years
that it does one of ten. These state
ments are commended to those persons
who persist in saying that the Quincy
system has about it nothing'which has
not previously been in use elsewhere in
this country. Everywhere else the be-
ginners in the profession are put into
the Primaries, and it is manifest alb
surdity. Inexperienced High School
graduates, mere girls, have the prefer
ence over trained professional teachers,
and the schools are suffering thereby"
In this country there are l, 1876 Con-
gregational ministers without a charge,
and the serious question what to do
with them, and why are things thus,
are forcing themselves into earnest dis
cussions. 1t is estimated that about
250 of these ministers are not in posi-
tions to accept any charge, and that
some OF them, perhaps, do not desire
one; but after all such allowance is
made there remain 900 ministers still
unemployed. Statistics indicate, as an
Offset, that there are 662 churches which
have no pastors, about sixty of which
are unable, it is supposed, to support
Questioning 600 pastorless churches
able to support pastor if they would,
and 900 churchless pastors willing to
take charge of church if they only
had chance. Evidently there is fault
somewhere. The CongregGtioraGltst has
published letters from several of the
pastors without charges, some of whom
have not only failed to get a church,
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