The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Madras has gradu-
ated 1893 persons, none OF whom are
Christians.
The Jesuits have recently purchased
the villa in the Island of Elba which
was occupied by Napoleon after his alb
dication, in 1914. 1t is to be converted
into college.
During the year 1884 there were
pa new Lutheran churches erected in
the United States, divided in language
as follows: German, 1873; English, So;
Swedish, %; Norwegian, IA; Norwegian
Danish, z; Danish, 2; Finnish, l; Slow
akian, l.
THE City of Churches" as Brook
Ign has been styled for many years, APP
pears not to be correspondingly city
of church-goers, as one of her ministers
finds upon investigation that there are
250,00O people there who never go to
church.-BoSton Transcript.
Wedding fees constitute an impor-
tant item in the revenues of the popular
minister's of New York and Philadel-
phia, their annual receipts sometimes
reaching $1,000. The fees vary from
$40 to $500, The average of one min
lister last year was $50.
An eccentric Perthshire Scotchman,
all his life member of the Free Kirk,
has lett his entire fortune-abOut
$l30,000 in our money-for the building
and endowment of a Wesleyan chapel
in village whore, so far as is known,
there are no Wesleyan inhabitants.
"A Lowell man whipped out his
memOrandum-book in church the other
Sunday and took down this remarkable
Thanksgiving from the lips of his scien-
tific pastor: 1--WE Thank Thee, o Lord,
that we are permitted to unwind the
mighty coil of material circumstances,
and gaze into the everlasting abysses
where flaming comets roll. "-LOWeI
Citizen.
Pastor Dickinson, of Norwich,
Conn, was accused of having said in
prayer meeting that the spirit of the
late u. S. Gardner had appeared to him.
What he did say was that brother OF
Gardner who had spoken in the meet.
ing, brought the dead man so yividlyto
his memory that he could almost see him
standing by his side. His description
was so striking that the hearers con
strued it literally.-N 7. SIN.
The new head-master of f on pro-
poses to return to the old system of ad-
hitting boys of eight or nine years of
age, it being the latter usage to admit
only those of twelve or thirteen. 1t is.
urged that the boys are at the school
too short time to get the full benefit
# ito Iitni,,liyo arl h.
kept till they are older, they should be
gathered in when they are younger
Donald G. Mitchell, better known
as TX Marvel, is sad to be much
pleased with the Profcssorship of bellies
lettres, which he has held for yeal
past at Yale College. The students re,
gard him as an amiable and delightful
instructor, and many of them have read
his ''Dream-L'fe" and "Reveries of a
Bachelor" with an interest approaching
enthusiasm. He studied law forty
years ago, but never pract,ecd, and
afterwards attempted daily journalism.
but did not find it to his liking.
Rev. DR.. Shedd, in letter to the
New York Observer, insists that faith il
eternal torment makes men Tranquil
and cautious, but never throws "a sounc
orthodox man into q CONSERVATION o.
makes him lose his head" On the con.
trary, he says: Hell is like any othel
danger. To be forewarned is to bt
fOrearmed. In order to escape danger
one must believe in it. Disbelief of it il
'ure destruction. Speaking generally
nj who acknowledge hell and fear it.,
will escape it; and all who deny hel
and ridicule it. will fall into it.