The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church of America has four Bishops,
l,729 preachers, 125. 900 members. sun
day schools and members, 46,02T.
"A voting man who wanted to tesch
school in Kansas could not tell horizon
tai from perpendicular. and when asked
what circular was said it was sort OF
fur-lined cloak.
The Old South Church in Boston
has voted to pay to the family OF its de.
ceased pastor, DIR. Jacob NJ. Manning,
the full salary to next April and 1000
per annum thereafter for six years.
Boston Post.
"A scholarship fund for the educs.
ton OF clergymen's daughters has been
received by the Mills Seminary. of Cali
lorna, from Mrs. William +. Dodge, Of
New York
Two OF the most accomplished kin.
dergarten workers of st. Louis have
been invited by the Canadian Govern.
ment to introduce their system in the
American dominions of the Queen.
George Rose, better known under
the nom de plume of Arthur Sktechley.
was FOR two years an Episcopalan cler-
gyman. He afterwards "went over 10
the Roman Church and became lay.
man.
"A school girl at Montrose. Pa, put
her finger into a knot.hole in her desk
at the Academy the other dag, and was
unable to pull it out again. The desk
had to be split open with an AK before
the youthful prisoner could be liberated.
The Sultan has taken away from the
Franciscan monks at Jerusalem a piece
OF land that had long been in their pos
session, aud has made present of it to
the Car of Russia, who wishes to erect
memorial chapel there to his mother
I'm Calcutta, the dedication of Ze-
mana Home brings out the fack of very
gratifying progress in female education,
the non-Christian females who can read
and write having doubled in the last five
years. II is said that there are now
more than 1000 Hindoo girls in mission
dsy-schools in Calcutta and its suburbs.
Indeed, they exceed the number of boys,
in the schools and colleges by 1000.
The Methodist Bishops held meet
ing in New York a fe " days ago and
considered the propriety of celebrating
the centennial of Methodism in 1884,.
After full deliberation it was unanimous
ly resolved that a celebration of the CEN,
tennial of the organization in 1884 of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is desirable
and that it is also desired that all other
organizations of American Methodism
should unite in the celebration.
The overseerS of Harvard College,
have voted to revoke the degrees of any
graduate who participates in any disso-'
lutte behavior in commencement week.
Their right to do so is questioned, the
decisions in somewhat similar cases in
dlcating that when degrees have been
once conferred the diploma can not be
withheld. Lawyers say that the courts
would compel the college to desist, if ap-
piled to on writ of quo warranto by d
graduate who had been punished in this
manner.-Nco HaUea Register.
One of the most remarkable affilia-
tons which has been known in religious
worship was that recently in Philadelphia
between Baptists and Jews. The Rev.
DIR. Magoun preached in the Roder-
Shalom synagogue to mixed congre-
cation composed partly of his own Broad
Street congregation, and partly of the
regular attendants on the synagogue.
Rabbi Jastrow offered prayers in Hebrew
and read from the Old Testament script
ures. DIR. Magoun preached on David.
and held up Judaism as the fountain Of
revelation, containing the germs of all
that has been developed into the Christian
religion. Philadelphia Record.