The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-02-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,


The Chicago Board of Education
have ordered that when teacher mar
ries her marriage shall be considered {
resignation from the school service.
The Southern Baptist Mission il
Rome has been recognized by the Ital
ian Government, and it will now have
the right to acquire and hold property
The decrease in the number of pu
pills studying German in the st. Loui.
schools is since last year nearly 700
Nevertheless 20, 1913 pupils out of 49,.
4S5 are still taking the language.
Two years and half ago there was
onlyone Presbyterian church and not one
Presbyterian minister in active work il
Dakota Territory (not counting Indiar
churches). Now there are some fiji
teen churches, and nearly, if not quite
as many ministers.
The American Board has spent
more than 100000 on its missions
among the Indian tribes; has gathered
over fifty churches among them, in
which not far from 4, 900 members have
been enrolled, most of whom have done
honor to the Christian name.
In the Madras Presidency the Arcot
Mission of the Reformed (Dutch) Church
has during this year extended the hand
of welcome to over 5000, who have
abandoned the worship of idols and
protested themselves adherents OF
Jesus. On one Sunday the Rev. Jared
Scudder baptized 307, and on the next
227 converted Hindoos.
A technical school with shops un-
der the charge of experienced work
men as instructors is soon to be estab-
lished in philadelphia. The course of
thirty lessons, thirty lectures and sixty
hours practice, divided into three terms
of ten weeks each, costs altogether tif-
teen dollars-fve dollars per term.
This fee will include the use of mate
rails and tools.
"A committee of Illinois ladies have
begun a movement for presenting to the
voters of that State the question of a
change in their Constitution giving
women the right to vote for school Off
GERS. Petitions asking for the presen-
tation of such an amendment will be
introduced in the next Legislature.
The State already permits women to
hold school offices.
The Congregationalists have in
England and Wales 2. 1907 churches, be-
sides 1850 branches and preaching sta
tions. During the past year fifteen new
churches have been formed and forty
five chapels have been built anew or re-
constructed. In Scotland the same de-
nomination has 106 churches, in Ire
land, thirty, in Canada 121, and in India
172. Their strength in England and
Wales is further shown in the fact that
they have thirteen colleges there with
469 students.
Nevada has been able to sell only
about 100, 900 acres of her school lands,
owing to their mountainous situation
or desert character-consequently the
school fund has not been much bene-
fitted by the grant. The State proposes
to relinquish these lands to the Govern
ment on condition of a grant of 2,000,-
600 acres of non-mineral lands, which
can be sold to advantage. The Nevada
Legislature passed a bill authorizing
this exchange, and Representative Dag
gett is preparing another bill to the
same effect to be introduced in Con-
gress.
The cornerstone of Clark Univer-
sity, All institution founded for the
education of negroes, was laid at At
lanta, Ga, recently. The University
began its work in 1860 in a small
building, to the annoyance of the citi-
zens, who offered 100000 to have
it located elsewhere. 1t was a pet
scheme of the late Bishop Ravens to
have the University enlarged and
strengthened so as to become the
leading educational institution in the
South. 1t has now on the roll 100
students. The new building is to be
125 by 40 feet, and has 450 acres of
land connected with it. When COM
pleted it will be free from debt.
The want of Christian courtesy in
some of our churches, especially in
the city, is astonishing. In some cases
even cultivated families may attend
for years and not obtain the slightest
recognition. Now, there may be ex-
cellent preaching, and everything, so
far as the worship is concerned, en-
tirely congenial, but what does it sig
nifty when you are no better than a
Samaritan among the JewsP When a
family has attended church six or
eight years and never received so
much as word of welcome, it comes
to be little tedious. People natur-
ally want to know by certain exter-
nal signs whether the communion of
saints means anything, and whether,
if it mean nothing here, it may mean
anything hereafter.-NewY York Church.
man Protestant E1)iScO9)nL !