The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-04-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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ais on the Sabbath.
The Lutheran church is adding
largely to the number of its buildings
A recent report mentions twelve new
ones.
Last year twelve persons in the
United States and Europe gave an ag
gregate of S3,000,000 to the cause Of
foreign missions.
"A London publisher offers an edi
ton of the New Testament for two
cents, and says he can make money al
selling it at that price.
The Roman Catholic clergy in
France numbered, in 1851, $685. in
1861, 1891; in 1876, 5000. The
Protestant ministers and the Jewish
rabbis number about 6 ZOO.
The Methodist Conference in North
India, recently held, reported 1885,
members and 1, lis probationers. The
accessions the past year were 257.
There are 1872 Sunday;schools, with
738 scholars, there being an increase
of AIS scholars.
With the money received toward
the Thanksgiving Fund ($1, 1872, 822) the
Wesleyans have paid off the heavy
debts of the home and foreign mis-
sionary societies, the education and
children's. funds. etc., and have paid
800 900 to the Theological Institution
at Birmingham.
No church, apparently, could more
carefully preserve the even tenor of its
way than the Moravian has done dur
ing the past year. Its membership is
1920, and the increase in 1879 was
only 2. There are $500 Sunday school
scholars in the denomination, and
1882 Sunday-school teachers. The in
crease of teachers for the year was 9.
During the pastyear what is known
as the Protestant Bible car has made
the tour of Italy from Genoa down the
shore of the Mediterranean to Naples,
and crossing the peninsula, thence to
Lecce, from Lecce has taken the route
up the Adriatic to Ancona, and from
Ancona to Piacenza, ending at Brescia.
A large number o. Bibles and Testa-
ments pave been sold, and many peo-
pie, it is said, have listened to the read
ing of the Scriptures from the car.
Fourteen thousand clergymen of
the Church of England have united in
a memorial to their bishops, asking
them to support earnestly measures for
the further restriction of the trade in
Intoxicating liquors. They are con-
WINGED, they say, that the conditions of
the people lean never be greatly i'm
proved, whether intellectually, physi-
cally or religiously, so long as intern
perance extensively prevails among
them, and that intemperance will pre-
vail so long as temptations to it abound
on every side"
Among churches engaged in paying
of their debts a front rank belongs to
the Baptists. Several instances of very
signal success are of late record. Here
are others of more recent date. Five,
churches in Philadelphia, with the help
of Mr.. Kimball, have lifted debts ag-
gregating $105, $50, and three others
have raised 800, 900 for building pur-
poses. Three Baptist churches in Phil
adelphia are without pastors, but if
theirs is the same life and spirit which
the other churches have shown, pastors
by the half score ought to be begging
for chance to minister unto them.
The proceedings instituted by Brit
ish authorities against the Wesleyan
missionary, the Rev. George Brown,
for inficting sanguinary punishment
upon the cannibals of New Britain, who
ate his teachers, have broken down. 1t
now appears that Governor Gordon, of
Fiji, never approved of the prosecu-
ton, because, he said, while he could
not commit himself to an unqualified
approval of Mr.. Browns action, no evil
dence had been brought to his notice
which would have led him to the insti-
tuition of criminal proceedings. Mr..
Brown has returned from Fiji to his
mission, taking with him five new men.
Private letters received in London
from Morocco report q barbarous anti
Jewish movement amongst the Ma
hometans of Fee. The Echo says a
fierce attack was made upon them in
the neighborhood of the Imperial Gar
dens and that many were severely
beaten and wounded. A party of Ma
hometans rescued a number of the Jews
and escorted them in safety to the Jews
Huul uCls COI lulS SSINlC0 buoy uclH
ransom-money, which the Jewish
community was compelled TO pay
An old Jew, seventy-fve years of
age, who has been highly es-
teemed for his character, was
seized, drenched with petroleum, and
then actually set on fire. The Jews
barricaded themselves in their quarter,
where they had to endure siege at the
hands of the mob. 1t appears that the
Spanish Consul at Tangier had in
formed the Government of Morocco
that the Spanish Government would no
longer impart to certain Jews and other
natives the protection with which it
had hitherto guarded them, and that
the news of this withdrawal of Spanish
patronage let loose the Mahometan
mob upon the defenseless Jews.
Imagination has great deal to dc
with the happiness and misery of hui
man life. Indeed, we are so constituted
that it seems as though we must have
something to be wretcLed about. II
our actual circumstances do not admit
of this contamination then our life is q
world of imaginary evils, and we weer
as though we had real sorrow. In.
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