The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-04-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Presbyterian Sunday School az
Conneautville, Crawford County, Pa
awards handsome Easter bonnet evar1r
month to the scholar who stands hest u
her class and church and Sunday School
attendance.
Georgia leads the Baptist hosts of
this country in numbers, having 9. Sqf
churches and 238,975 members, Texss
following next in the number of churches
1926, and Virginia in membership, 20S'
$50. f-.
1t is one of the unexplainable thincs
of moral ethics how people decide a.
promptly as to how little rain and had
weather it takes to keep them away from
prayer-meeting, and how much is rn.
quired to keep them away from a GOOD
show.
The new revivalist, George O
Barnes, calls himself the Mountain
Evangelical of Kentucky" He claims
to be able not only to cure sin-sick sonlC
but disease-hardened bodies. For the
first he breaches and prays. The latter
he annoints and prays over.
"A Scotch writer who has been look-
ing into the hand-books of worsbin Of
the Roman Catholic Church finds itbe
number of directions for spreading and
folding the hands, bowling, kneelinr
kissing the altar, etc, to be 800. sjigSSt
bows 81, profound bows 9.-I,zdjanG1o.
us Sentinel.
There is a movement in the Kontro
KY Legislature for the equalization of the
distribution of the school fund between
the white and colored people of the State
A discrimination is now made AGAINST
the colored people on the ground that
they pay taxes on only SO, 500, 900 vvossl
OF property DenUer Tribune.
1t is said that Leipzig, Germany.
has only seven churches, all poorly at
tended, no such thing as Sunday
school, and that religious person is
there looked upon as curiosity. That
is the worst thing we have ever heard
said of Leipzig, and we are glad like
record cannot truthfully be written of
any city in this country.-N. Y Erans-
iner.
The Rev. DR.. GLADDEN. thinks that
pupils should learn such things as will
tend to make them happy in whatever
calling they may choose. He suggests
that all possible ways should be devised
in school to awaken the minds of the
pupils and stimulate a thirst for knowl-
edge; and he suggests that boys should
be made to see that farm life is far from
lonely or uninteresting. They should
be taught natural history and miner
alogy.
Miss Anna divers church in VIII
loughby and Tompkins Avenues, Brook
lin, is in luck once more. The church
is built ON leased ground owned by two
parties, one of whom has decided all his
right, title and interest in the real estate
to the church for church purposes. The
other owns $4,000 in it yet, and now
Miss Oliver and her officials want the
friends of this enterprise to the number
of $4,000, which she believes it has in
Brooklyn and vicinity, to contribute one
dollar or more each toward clearing off
this Indebtedness. The property is val
ued at $4,000, and this is all that is
due on it. Miss Oliver has been nearly
three years with the church, and this last
is reported to be the best in every sense.
The church building seats 1000, and is
well filled on Sabbath evenings, and has
fair audiences in the mornings. The Sun
day-school numbers 200, with twenty
seven teacherS-N T. Sum-