The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-rrotestant preaching Is permitted
IN over $4,000 townships OF France
The Western Methodist book aoort.
have decided to exclude patent NOD It'
cine advertisements from the paners
published under their direction. ''''
Prominent Presbyterian clerovr,o.
have assembled recently at Saratoga t ~
discuss the subject of educating Co.
man young men for the ministry.
Six years ago the New York Swoa
ish Lutheran Conference had onlv tua
churches, Now it possesses sixteen "V
and has appointed TRAVELLING m;a
sionary for the State of Connection
The Thinkers, or Dunkards in thai,
recent meeting in Ohio, passed resolr
tions against Sunday schools, higb
schools, revival meetings, paid minis
try, missionary plans or boards. moner
soliciting or begging, and instruments
music.
The Eastern German Baptist Cor,
veution has just met in Pennsylyania
A project was discussed for unitino
with the Western German Baptist Con-
vention in combined missionary WORT
among the Germans of tho UnitaS
States and Canada.
The Protestant Episcopal Diocese,
Convention lately in session at Dan
vile, Va, voted that the clergy should
recognize the fact that the negroes
within their parochial bounds are an
integral part of their parochiaI Wort
that must not be ignored or neglected
"A ''solid block of Methodismr is
what Methodists call Antioch Circuit in.
Middle Tennessee, which occupies about
fifteen miles square, and has nearly
seven hundred members. In this whole
territory there is no other religious Or
ganization, and probably not more than
Chaplain McCabe, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Extension Society,
has a proposition for what he calls
Frontier Fund, under which ten thous-
aud preachers shall raise or laymen
give ten dollars a year each for ten
years to aid in building churches in the
far West, the money to be considered
as contributions to the Church Exten-
sion Fund.
Provincial meetings were held at
different places in England during the
sessions of the Methodist Ecumenical
Council. The one at Leeds considered
the history of Methodism in that city
and the means of securing corporation
among the various branches of the
church so as most widely to extend its
influence and usefulness among all
classes of the people.
The Society of Geneva, for the pur-
pose of promoting better observance
OF the Sabbath, has offered a prize for
the best essay on the subject, to be of
fifteen or twenty-five pages. 1t desires
the subject to be considered popularity
from the practical side, and to bear es-
pecially against public Sunday festivals
and protracted entertainments on Sat
urday nights, and against anything that
may impose additional Sunday labor on
servants and workmen.
Young women have taken a re-
markable place in the late examinations
of the London University. The class
for mathematical honors had but three
members, one of them girl, who took
the palm; a girl also came out ahead for
English honors; and two of the four for
German honors were girls, who again
distanced their male rivals; one of
three, again, placed at the head for
pharmaceutical chemistry, was girl
and Miss Prideaux was first in the
honors list for anatomy, coming from
the London School of Medicine for
Women, and beating both of her rivals
from Guys Hospital.