The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-02-07
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The income of Plymouth Church
from its pews for the present year will
be S40,28O.
A hundred years ago Moravian
missionary baptised the first negro con.
vert in Dutch Guiana, and now the mis-
sion numbers 22,301.
The Bible used by Washington is
offered for sale by the officers of Christ
Church, Alexandria. Va. They are
anxious to pay church debt.
In the New York Union Theolop-
ical Seminary there are now IA stu
dents, greater number, we are told.
than in any other seminary in the coun-
try.
The British Wesleyan Thankspiv-
ing Fund, up to December LIST, had
reached S1,112,0OO. Manchester and
Bolton Districts give about 100000
each.
! There are connected with Spur
geon's Tabernacle, London, and con-
Quoted by his people, nineteen Sunday
schools in which are 500 teachers and
nearly 5000 scholars.
The Rev. Charles Scott gives the
following statistics of ministers in
Great Britain: Protestant Episcopal,
%, 1853; Congregational, 1926; Presby-
terrain, 1881; Methodist, 1869; total,
39,349.
The celebration of the Robert Raikes
centenary, in commenoration of the
one hundredth year of the establish
ment of Sunday schools, is to be held
in the week June % to July 4, inclu-
sive, of 1880. A Sunday school fund
is to be raised in connection with it.
The Methodist Freedmen's Aid So
ciety reports receipts of $4,000 the
past year, with which six chartered in
situations, three theological schools, one
medical college, and nine seminaries,
academies, etc., were supported. The
total number of scholars in these was
2,410.
On the 10th of December, in a
small city in Eastern Bohemia, thirty
one persons were fined two dollars and
fifty cents each for attending Bible
service not connected with the State
Church. The leader of the meeting was
fined twelve dollars and fifty cents. On
the 14th of December the attempt of
the few believers in Stupitz, near
Prague, to hold a Bible service in one
of their homes was frustrated by the
police. On the 1st of November the
Austrian Cabinet decided that the
Stupitzers might hold house Bible
services with invited guests, but the
needed document has not reached these
prosecuted people. All this in Austria,
whose Constitution grants religious
liberty to all citizens. Christian Ufaion
Eight years ago there were twelve
Bishops in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Three have died since-Ed-
ward Ames, Edmund S. James, and
Gilbert Haven. Of the nine left Levi
Scott was seventy-seven years old Oct.
IL, 1879; Matthew Simpson sixty-nine
June 81, 1879; Jess. T. Peck sixty-eight
April 4, 1879; Thomas Bondman sixty
two, William T. Harris sixty-two, Ran
dolph Foster fifty-nine, Isaac w. Wiley
fifty-four, Stephen M. Merrill fifty-four,
and Edward G. Andrew fifty-four. At
the meeting of the General Conference
in May there will certainly be three or
four Bishops elected. DR.. j. M. Wal
den will in all probability be one of the
number. In that case it is likely that
layman will be selected as one of the
agents of the Western Book Concern.
This is among the most important Off
GERS of the General Conference. Charles
W. Rowland, a member of Wesley
Chapel, who was lay delegate to the
General Conference at Baltimore four
years ago, is named for that position.