The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The Women's Baptist Missionarv
Society of the West, report over ,200.
auxilaries, being an addition of mora
than 100 during the past year.
1t is said that during the eleven
years of his Chancellorship, DR.. Howard
Crosby was never late at the chapel SER
vices of the University of New York.
Miss Marie C. Ladreyt, teacher IN
the State Normal School at birmingham
Mass, has won the Pereire prize in Paris
CT 81, 900 for an essay on education.
The Christian Advocate, mentioning
the case of an Irish girl who said she
joined the Methodist church ION susni.
| cion" for six months, says: ave dom
know about the propriety OF TAKING
| people into the church on suspicion. hH9f
we think considerable number migbt
be let out on that ground" .
At the session of the NJ. Z. General
Conference South, Bishop Paine. now
eighty-fvc years of age, almost sixty.
five of which he has been in constant
service of a preacher or Bishop, asked IN
be retired from further labors While
he was reading his farewell address
nearly all the members of the conference
burst into tears, and at the conclusion
the congregation caught up the hymn.
Through many dangers, tolls and
snares."
st. Louis has $50 female teachers in
the schools, of whom 250 have been in
the service less than five and 300 more
than ten years. The average age when
appointsCA is<tMifsys gears, and the
pay at first is 5000, which rises in five
years TO $500 and in ten to $500. There
are forty married teachers, of whom ten
have husbands dependent upon them.
Three-quarters of those who resign have
immediate matrimony in view, but they
rarely stop work for that purpose until
after at least five years. service, and,
upon the other hand, there is no case on
record of succumbing to the tender
passion after working ten years. - Detroit
Post. ..t,
DR.. Schaff has contributed an article
toward the solution of the agreements
and disagreements of the first three
Gospels. He finds that, comparing the
Gospels two by two, Matthew and Mark
are most in common, and Matthew and
Luke are most divergent. One-half of
Mark is found in Matthew; one-quarter
of Luke is found in Matthew; one
third of Mark is found in
Luke. The general conclusion from
these figures is that all these Gospels
widely diverge from the common matter
or triple tradition, Mark the least so and
Luke the most (almost twice as much as
Mark.) On the other hand, both Mat
thew and Luke are nearer Mark than
Luke and Matthew are to each other
Chicago Tribune.
The Rev. DR.. Cuyler, of Brooklyn,
says that the experience of more than
thirty-tive' years in temperance work
convinces him that not more than one
per cent. of those who become utterly
scottish drunkards can be reformed and
saved. He says that even though many
of these unfortunate persons may desire
to do better, and may even go so far as
to take the pledge, the power of their
drinking habits is so strong that they
generally become backsliders. Of twelve
reformed drunkards whom he knew,
who had become church members, all
but one backslided. DR.. Cuyler's doc
trine is that it is easier and wiser to keep
men from becoming drunkards than to
restore them after they have fallen into
habitual intoXication. " Y. Sun.