The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Spain, with a school population n,
2.6O6, 265, has %, III elementary schools
instructing LAO, 476 pupils.
Three students of Canadian col-
lege rescued two school-ma' ans from
watery graves. Canada can now. ~
course, expect double wedding. and
the suicide of the student who gets left
The Rev. w. Mccain, Moderator Of
the English Presbyterian Synod, alludiuc
to the question of Christian economical
recently remarked that England spent
f127, 100000 in drink, and only 92,6OO..
900 on missions.
The General Assembly of the Pres.
byterian Church of Ireland, after lono
and able debate on instrumental music
voted against liberty to adopt it as an
accompaniment of public worship by a
majority vote of $50 against 345. The
majority of the ministers voted for. and
the majority of the elders against, liberty
to use organs and other instruments.
The Christian Register, of Boston.
says: In one of the Episcopal churches
OF Providence on a certain Sunday the
preacher, a stranger, defined the soul as
the non-atomic center of psychic force
and throughout his discourse, when al
luding to the soul, used the phrase
Fancy the Improvement on the old read
ing, what is a man advantaged if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
non-atomic center of psychic force?"
The Fourth Presbyterian church Of
Chicago, Rev. Herrick johnson, pastor,
as appeared from his sermon june ID
the second anniversary of his settlement
over it, has gained 85 members within
the year, 10 of them on confession of
faith. The church, which now has 437
members, gave $50, SAP during the year,
$1S,032 of which was used for salaries
and other expenses, and S18,610 TO be-
nevolent causes. Besides this, S3,O00or
$4,000 have been given by individual
members of the church to colleges, and
c. H. Mccormick has given SIS, 900 to
the Theological Seminary in that city.
Last year the church contributed S29, SS5.
The son of Barrie, Ont, school
inspector distracted from an express
package addressed to his father the list
of questions to be asked at the public
school examinations, and made a COPY
thereof. Then, in partnership with an
other lad bearing the suggestive name
of Mainprize, he negotiated with the
scholars who were to undergo school ex-
animation, and by selling copies of the
list under promise of secrecy, reaped
rich reward. The secret leaked out, the
perpetrators of the deed fled for parts
unknown, and the students who were to
have been asked the aforesaid questions
were admitted to examination only upon
oath that they knew nothing about the
fraud Chicago Herald.
The Telugu native preachers, SAYS
the Rev. S. F. Burdett, of the American
Baptist Society, are born orators. Their
sermons are modelled after those of the
missionaries, with more of the Socratic
method. The preacher often makes his
point more effective by asking aquestion
to which the people give a ringing re-
Spouse. Sometimes he will address
some person in the congregation-gen-
orally preacher-who will reply-and
a dialogue will be carried on to which
the congregation will listen with great
attention. Illustration and parable are
much used, and also pantomime, which
sometimes becomes ludicrous.