The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The Free Will Baptists will cele-
brate in 1880 the centenary of the exist
ence of that denomination. Their first
church was organized at New Durham,
N. H.
The first translation of the Bible
into English was made by John Wick
life, about 1884. 1t was never printed,
but manuscript copies of it exist. The
first English printed Bible was that of
William Tyndall, of which the New
Testament was published in 1926.
A dispatch from Rome saws the
Propaganda has approved the proposal
of Cardinal McCloskey for the estab-
lishment of three bishoprics in Ameri-
ca, under the jurisdiction of the Arch
bishop of New York. The Propaganda
will instruct Cardinal McCloskey as to
the most suitable location of the sees.
An Indian named Archie B. Law
yer, a licentiate of the Presbytery of
Oregon, recently made visit from his
home in Idaho to Chief Joseph's band
of captive Nez Perces, and reports as
the result of his preaching, that over
100 persons have become Christians
and are anxious to connect themselves
with the Presbyterian Church.
Professor Harner, the famous Eu-
ropean ocullst, has lately published an
opinion that the use of slate and slate
pencil is peculiarly injurious to the eye
sight of the young, and that the hygiene
of the eye demands the removal of
these implements from the schools,
and the universal substitution of pen
and ink.
Among $3.50 colored children in
the schools of the District of Columbia,
of whom 1850 were males and 1,691 fe-
males, DIR. Swan M. Burnett found
twenty-four individuals affected with
color-blindness, viz, twenty-five boys
Q.6 per cent? and two girls oil per
cent? This proportion of color-blind-
ness is very low; among white it is
three per cent among males, and OPS
for females.
The Sandwich Islands alphabet
has II letters; the Burmese, 10; the
Italian, 20; the Bengalese, 81; Hebrew,
Syriac, Chaldee, each %; French, 2S;
Greek, "a; Latin, %; German, Dutch
and English, each 26; Spanish and
Sclavonic, q each; Arabic, %; Persian
and Coptic, 80; Georgian, So; Arme-
MAN, SO; Russian, Al; Muscovite, 43;
Sanscrit and Japanese, so; Ethiopic and
Tartarian, POP each.
Complaints are made by the Jews
that there exists at Jerusalem no school
at which instructions in modern depart
pents of knowledge can be had. Char
tiles there are, it is said, in abundance,
but of teaching in practical things there
is none. Meanwhile ecclesiasticism
prevails in the synagogues, and hospi-
tails and aims houses are provided for,
but the active man who has to do with
the busy world is left in his ignorance.
"A few days before Thanksgiving
Mr.. Moody suggested in Chicago that
the gifts to be made for the poor on
that holiday in his district be first
taken to the Chicago Avenue Church.
AS the result, six wagon-loads were
carried in and placed before the pulpit.
Among the articles were flour, bread,
crackers, cakes, pies, apples, lemons,
dried beef, hams, mutton, chickens,
turkeys, ducks, brushes, soap, oranges,
grapes, pears and canned fruits and
meats.
The Presbyterians have very en-
couraging reports from their mission
work in Mexico. More than 500 con-
verts recently sat down together at the
communion table in the city of Zitacua-
TO, situated southwest of the capital;
and two native preachers say they have
a list of nearly 5000 converts in the
State of Michoacan. The people of
Zitacuaro have sent for teacher whom
they will support, and little congre-
CATION at Tuzpan, though very poor,
has raised 800 for cabinet organ.
The Methodist Yearbook for 1880
gives the following statistics of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Annual
Conferences, $50; itinerant preachers,
1853; local preachers, 12,402; mem
bers and probationers, 1,69O,S 37;
churches, 1921; parsonages. $500;
value of church ediices, $66,639, $50;
Sunday-schools, 10, 925; scholars in Sun
day-school, 1,543, 1856; Presiding Elders,
444; nearly 1,400 pastoral charges are
supplied" and l 1913 localIpreachers are
stationed as pastors.