The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

1t is said that $4,000 copies of
printed sermons are gratuitously dis
tributed every week in Berlin and a
| few other German cities.
Priests and religious teachers have
been expelled from 1876 schools in Paris
during the last three years, and 123
Christian free schools have been main
tanned.
The Methodist ministers of New
England receive an average salary of
$3.50 year, the Baptists a trife more.
the Presbyterians $40, and the Epis-
copalians S900.-B0StOR Post.
Mr.. Elan r. Jewett has offered to
the Church Charity Foundation of Buff
falo lot of ground in that CITY on GER
tain conditions, the principal of which
is that chapel to the memory of the
late Rev. DR.. Edward Ingersoll, to be
called the ''Ingersoll Memorial Chapel"
at cost of not less than $4,000. shall
be erected on the property, and shall
be ready for occupation within three
years from date. The Board of Man
ayers of the Foundation have accepted
the gift.-Bmfalo IN. Y. J Express.
This incident Is recorded by The
Christian at Work: "Our Methodist
brethren are not always considerable in
their responsive outbreaks, and here is
an instance: As the Rev. DR.. Bowman
was about to begin his sermon on last
Sunday evening at Ocean Grove, he re-
marked: Many of you have never seen
me before, and in all probability many
OF you will never see me again. fAmenp
shouted an enthusiastic brother. RTh,.
minister smiled with the congregation.
How could he help it?"
In letter written by Thaddeus
Stevens in 1864 to a lady who had
thanked him for his efforts in behalf of
a free school system, Mr.. Stevens said:
"When | entered the Legislature about
thirty years ago there was not school
in any part of the State where the chill
dren of the poor could acquire common
education without recording themselves
paupers and being recognized and
treated as such by their fellow stu
dents. Few availed themselves of
these odious conditions, and the poor
mans child was doomed to ignorance.
Now there is no obscure, barren spot
within the broad limit of Pennsylvania
where the children of the rich and poor
do not meet in common schools on equal
terms.-DetrOjt Post.
The Edinburgh Scotsman recently
contained the following statements
made by DR.. Peddie, of that city, to his
congregation, concerning two extraor-
binary pastorates: "On the 3rd of
April, 1888, my late father was or
dained to the ministry in this congre-
cation. Since that date a century had
elapsed on Tuesday last, which was on
the 3rd of April, 1883. was associ-
ated, as most Of you know, with my
father as his colleague, during the last
seventeen years of his life; and having
received help of God, | continue to this
day; so that father and son have served
you in the ministry of the gospel for a
hundred years continuously. Neither
of US ever had any other charge than
this congregation; and as my father
when he died had completed sixty-two
years in the ministry, and [ have COM.
pleted fifty-four, the sum of these peri
DDS of service is 116 years. [ do not
mention these things, hope, to glorify
myself, but rather to magnify Gods
goodness to us. The facts [ have now
stated are probably quite unique; GER
tainly they have been very rarely
paralleled.