The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The colored BapttstS in Tennessee
number 10000, and have $50 churches
The Fulton Street On. W dailu
noon prayer meeting has been estab-
ished twenty-five years.
The Presbyterian Church of Canad.
is raising 100000 to build churches for
the immigrants who are pouring into
Manitoba.
Mount Eagle, Tenn, has been Sc.
lected as the site for the establishment
of a Southern Chautauqua, to be con.
Quoted on the broadest basis of Biblical
Christianity,
Rev. DIR. Macarthur thinks there are
in New York City enough church mem
bers not enrolled with any of the city Or
CARNATIONS to make "fifteen churches
above the average in size, wealth, social
position and Christian activity"
"A pretty sight at the evening ser.
vice of a church in Newport, Vt, was
the unfolding of anight-blooming cereus,
which was carried in by parishioner.
The blossoms attained their full size near
the close of the service.
The old slave market at Zanzibar.
where formerly 10000 slaves were sold
annually, has been transformed into
mission premises, with a church, mission
house and school, under the charge of
the Universities Mission to Africa.
started in 1859 at the suggestion of DR..
Livingstone. " Y. Times
New York City has a school 250
years old, the Dutch Church School. 1t
was founded in 1888 and has been kept
II mt
school house was erected in 1860 and the
Dutch architecture was perpetuated in
its building. 1t is claimed to be the
oldest educational establishment in the
country.
--' How to get people to church" is a
much-discussed question in these days.
When Mr.. Sturgeon was asked how he
succeeded 50 wonderfully in keeping his
church full, he replied: II fill the pulpit
and let the people fill the pews." DR..
Chalmers told part of the secret when
he said: "A house-going preacher makes
church-going people. - Watchmqn
The faculty of Amherst College are
convinced that oratorial abilities are more
natural than acquired, and that their
posseSsors have been given undeserved
honors in commencement exercises. Com
sequently, the occasional speakers will
hereafter be selected for good scholar
ship, and not for fine voices and graceful
gesters. The students favor the change,
which is return to the system formerly
followed. - Boston Post.
Philadelphia has night-schools for
workingwomen, i'll which the studies are
divided as follows: Those which every
woman needs for herself, such as read
ing, writing and arithmetic physiology
and hygiene-seWng, and cutting and
fitting; those which contribute to the
enjoyment of her leisure, such as French,
German, history and literature; and such
as contribute to her power of improving
her -lfe-viz: cooking, reading
aloud, and singing. The teachers are com
petent volunteers. - PtijGlieLphia Press
During the semi-C Centennial services,
recently held at the Ithaca, N. Y,
Methodist Conference, four diyines, who
had been in the ministry for fifty years
and upward, gave an entertaining ac-
count of their experience. Among them,
Rev. James Erwin, formerly of Oswego
stated that he began preaching in 1881,
on a circuit covering 800 miles, and that
for his first years labOrs he received the
then muniticent sum of sixty dollars, of
which four dollars was in cash. At the
present prices of necessities his salary
would scarcely fill his potato bin.