The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Congregational Academy at
Salt Lake City, Utah, has six teachers
and 240 pupils, a large proportion of
whom come from Mormon homes.
Washington is a remarkably re.
ligious city. Statistics show 1870
churches, with 1851 members. OF
this total membership, however, about
2l,OOO are in the colored churches.
A returning missionary writes to a
church paper: I'VE suffer 50 much in
the hot season that we are fully con-
WINGED that it is the will of the Lord
that we should return to America be-
fore the hottest Indian weather is upon
us again"
He was graduate in natures
university. Nature is wiser than the
schoolmaster; she educates, but she
never Grams. Her scholars do not 90
up to take their degrees; their degrees
come to them.-Jean IpgeIow.
In 1877 there were twentY-three
Danish-Norwegian Baptist churches in
eight Western States, with 1850 men,
bers, seventeen ordained ministers and
twelve meeting houses. Now there are
thirty-nine churches, thirty-four min.
isters and twenty-seven meeting houses.
N !. ETamtner.
Since 1870 women have been adj
mitted to universities in Sweden, Nor
way, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain
and France. At st. Petersburg in
1882 ninety-nine young women were
given degrees in the literary and histor-
ical department and sixty-four in the
scientific department.
japanese educators are making an
effort to substitute Roman letters fol-
those now in use in Japan. 1t would
probably require but little persuasion to
induce the people to adopt the English
language outright, if one may Judge from
the willingness with which they have
accepted other American and English
customs and methods. Current.
The public hears from time to time
Of a discussion over the question OF
public worship at Harvard University.
In point of fact, there are at present
no regular Sunday services in the col
lege chapel. During the winter an oc-
casional discourse was given. Attend
ance upon some church on Sunday is
no longer requisite, but by a recent de-
cision compulsory attendance upon
morning prayers in the college chapel
is continued. T. Sun.
An ancient custom was observed
recently at a London church where, in
accordance with the will of Peter Sv-
monds, which dates so far back as the
year 1886, sixty of the younger boys of
! Christ's Hospital attended divine serv-
ices in the morning, and afterward re-
! ceiyed new penny and a bag of rails
ms. 1t was stated that this was the two
hundred and ninety-first celebration of
this quaint ceremony.
AT Portland Me, clergyman who
manages Gospel temperance mission
has organized a Gideon Band, which
is said to introduce Wagnerian effects
in the choruses sung during the sery-
ices, the idea on which the scheme is
founded being taken from Judges, vii.
l6: 'And he (GideOn) divided 800
men into three companies, and he put
a trumpet into every maS's hand, with
empty pitchers and lamps within the
pitchers. "-BOSt0n Journal.
The famous "Codex Argenteus,
the four gospels translated by Bishop
Ulphilas, is preserved in the University
of Upsala. 1t is written on 1872 leaves
of parchment in letters of silver on
ground of faded purple. 1t is kept in
glass case and under lock and key. 1t
dates back to the second half of the
fourth century, and, besides being of
value to the religious world, it gives the
secular world all the knowledge it now
possesses Of the early Gothic, the parent
of all the Germanic tongues.