The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-04-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Roman Catholic clergy no
longer oppose cremation, which is be-
coming very common in Italy,-C Chicago
Tribune.
1t is said that eight sons of the late
President Nathan Lord were graduated
from Dartmouth college during his in
cumbency OF the office. Only one.
Colonel Nathan Lord, Jr., now survives.
An industrial school for colored
youth, similar to the one at Hampton,
Va, is to be established near Jackson
vile, Fla. Prominent gentlemen are,
interested in the scheme. ~ o.
Times.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Ontario have petitioned
for the introduction of temperance text
books in the schools, and are sanguine
that their request will be granted.
Two years ago Presbyterian
Church consisting of one family was
organized at Maylield, Kan. 1t now
has sixty members on its roll, of whom
twenty-five have been added since last
October. - Cbjc0gO Tribune.
The free church experiment is be-
ing tried pretty widely by the Episcopal
churches of Boston. OF the twenty
two churches and chapels in that city,
thirteen are ''free," and in the diocese
more than half are free" OF eight
new buildings converted oropened dur
ing the past year, all but one are
free. "-Boston Journal,
II you ask me why it is that after
1900 years four parts out of five of the
whole GLOBE are without the knowledge
of Jesus Christ, and why Oh 9ti;.;.s.5
is yet matter of debate, it is because
men have shifted the emphasis of the,
Gospel. They have put for the Gospel
things that are not the Gospel, and
have never vet. as it were, understood
what was the real force of the Gospel.
of Jesus Christ. Henry Ward Beecher.:
The Christian al Work asks the.
question; ''Why do females preponder-
ate in the membership of our churches?
| Out of 1872, 900 members of the Congre-
! gational den omination, 252,0 200 or 68
! per cent. are females, leaving only 80
per cent. males. What is the reason of
all this? The Congregational denomi-
nation is the only one that tabulates it's
membership by sexes; but we suppose
like proportion to exist in the other
non-Episcopal churches. What is the
reason? Do not men become religious
as readily as women?-then why? Or
does the church not adapt its work as
well to men as to women?"
The "Baptst Handbook for 1882 has
recently been published. Among the
features of general interest is q sum-
mary of statistics of Baptist Churches
throughout the world. Since 1878, the
first year in which such a summary was
compiled, there has been very marked
progress There were in 1882 81, 296
churches, as against 28,505 in 1878;
1855 ministers and missionaries as
against 7,6S3, and 1885, 1872 members
as against :, 473,05S. The returns from
America show $4,000 churches and not
fewer than 2,43l, 800 members. The
details for the British Islands show for
the year 1888, 1908 churches, 3,738 with
sitting accommodation for 1,13S, 532.
The members amount to 304, 1902.
There are 1850 Sunday School teach
ers and AS, 1877 scholars. The pastors
are 1888 and the evangelists reach the
figures 3,505. Arranged under the four
nationalities the membership is as fol-
lows: England, 2l9,4l4; Wales, 73y74&;
Scotland. 10,096; Ireland, 1,544.