The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SINCE Its organization the Nations,
Academy of Sciences has had but tbr".
observation-disclosures Bache. He's
and William B. Rogers. The ofica !
for life.-N. 2. Post.
A schoolmaster of WAYNE CONT,
Pennsylvania, in attempting to ohsat;5J,,
a girl, one of his pupils, was set unon n' Se
the boys of the school, who literal,
stripped him.-N. Y. Herald.
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt recon.,-
gave his check for 1000 to paw off ivy
debt of Grace Church, Lexington W. ,ae
which was erected in memory of ca
Robert E. Lee.-N 2. Herald. 'u
Harvard College proper has hoo,
living beyond its income for four vesr S
to the average amount of S12. 5OOa yean
Tue deficit for 1SS0-81, amounting 10
S34, 1913, is the largest the COLLEGE, ho'
ever incurred.-Ne,O HaUen Reqisteer 4'S
"A Methodist minister the other do,
said he prayed to be saved from tSs
preacher who never fails in the nnln;t
He had colleague of that kind once! bo
never had bad time and the congrega.
WIN HoNeI udu SOOQ one.
lin the far-away Synod of Otago in
New Zealand, the lowest salary anon
the Presbyterian ministers is over 81 az
the Sustentation Fund giving that div,
idend, and the churches often raiSinr
the salary much above that sum.
Friends of Robert College. saws tho
Boston A0OeTttser, Will be glad to Iearn
that the New York Court of AppeNsNas
sustained the will of Mr.. c. Il. Robert,
the founder of the college, under which
the institution will receive 100000 for
the general endowment fund
Bishop Halsey said to the Confer
ence of the African Methodist Church.
1--WE have little respect for grammar
but great respect for the gospel. To
succeed with US, one must have a loud
voice, almost enough to raise the dead
We sing loud and Shout, but get true re.
ligion. IN. Y. Sun.
The Congregational "Year- Book
for 1882 was recently issued. The mum.
Der of churches reported is 1904; pas.
tors, 1858 (only S77 installed); total
Congregational ministers, 3,713; church
members, 3S1, 697 males, 128, 065; fe-
males, Psi, 1929; additions by confession.
11,311; by letter, II, 235; total, 22,546:
lost by death, 1864; by dismission,
9,454; by discipline, 1850; total, II, l7S:
net loss in membership, 2,635. Total
benevolent contributions, 81, 227, 10S, an
increase of 1894, 1856.
The esteem in which Dr. John
Brown was held by his countrymen NAV
be conjectured from the fact that seven
years ago, when his health began to fail.
a sum of more than $50, 900 was collect
ed for him without publicity The au-
thor of Grab and His Friends" knew
nothing of it until the amount, partly in
a check and partly in the shape of an
annuity, was put into his hands, the list
of the contributors first having gone into
the fire. - Chicago Tribune.
The American Bible Society is un-
dertaking the fourth general supply of
the Holy Scripture throughout this
country. The first was in lS29-30, the
second in 1856, and the third in 1866
The work now proposed is the largest
that has ever been attempted for the dis
tribution of the Bible in any land, and
the Society appeals for liberal cetribu-
tons of money to pay for books, trans
portation and distribution, so that this
home supply may not in the least cripple
its growing foreign service.-N. Y. En-
GnliRer,