The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The principals of the public
shoots in Brooklyn, N. Y. have had
their salaries raised to three thousand
dollars per year.
"A stock company has been organ
lied by San Francisco capitalists to
build a Southern California University
for law, medicine, art and science,
The Orphanage Cottages of the
Baptist churches in Philadelphia are
completed and the public opening took
place recently.
A Sunday-school superintendent
says that what is wanted in his line is
some one who can address a Sunday
school without beginning his speech
with "when was little boy. IN. Y.
Ledger.
Bishop Warren states that one
hundred thousand new mem bers have
been added to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, North, during the last three
months. These figures have no refer
ence to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, which has also had
large additions.-CleUelGBd Leader.
The Chinese Recorder states that
there are 81 Protestant missionary So
cieties at work in that empire, Is
British, IA American and 4 German,
and about 912 foreign missionaries, of
whom 307 are married, and $50 single
men and 100 single women, net gain
of about 60 in the last year.
Rev. j. C. c. Clarke, of Shurtleff
College, Upper Alton, ILL.,, has pre-
sented to the University of Rochester,
N. Y, Bible once owned by DR..
John Clarke, the first Baptist pastor in
America. The Bible is the Geneva YER
sion, published in 1905 Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The church at Bryan Station, KY,
celebrated its centennial anniversary
recently. 1t was founded in April,
1776, by the father of its present pas
tor, the Rev. Thomas B. Dudley, and
during the one hundred years OF its ex-
istence has had but the two pastors,
father and son. The present pastor is
the stepfather of Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, and is ninety-four years old
~ Y. Sun.
Among the DEGREES of the Roman
Catholic Plenary Council is one forbid
ding picnics and excursions by night
or on Sundays or feast days. Suppers
or social parties at night for raising
money are also prohibited. Another.
decree of the Council directs that with
in two years every parish must have
its parochial school near the church.
If the priest is neglectful, he must be
removed;i if the congregation, they must
be spurred up.
The first Presbyterian Church of
New York City, over which Rev. Rich
ard D. Harlan was recently installed,
is the oldest of the denomination in the
State, and from it branched off the
Brick, Scotch, Rutgers, and Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian churches. Its
first building was erected in 1718, in
Wall street, near Nassau street. Mr..
Harlan is twenty-six years of age only,
and is a son of Justice Harlan, of the
United States Supreme Court.-M 7.
| Mail.
"A Chicago correspondent of the
| COngregatiOndList writes from Utah that
the work of the schools of the new
West Education Commission is very
successful The schools are crowded;
the teachers are fervently given to their
work as thoroughly missionary one,
and are first-class teachers. Religious
revivals have recently occurred in two
Or three of the schools. In connection
with the school in Salt Lake City there
have been thirty conversions, and
new church will be organized there as
result.