Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

A lack of sufficient membership to
sustain = Presbyterian organization in
Kingston, N. c., has forced them to sell
their church to the Episcopalians.
Prof. Bonamy Price praises our fe-
male teachers to the echo, and says that
nowhere in the world is so thorough a
sympathy between pupil and teacher to
be found as in America.
The Presbyterian and Methodist min
listers of New York have united in an in
vitation to Messrs. Moody and Sankey to
hold series of meetings in that city on
their return from England.
1t is stated that, while the Episcopa-
lians have 1850 churches in this country,
they have but 2.1S1 effective elergymen,
and that the number of Episcopal theolog-
ical students has materially fallen off dur
ing the past four years.
Lambs Creek Church, Brunswick,
Va, is the only one now standing of five
colonial churches built in King George
County. One of the antiquities of the
house is an old type Oxford Bible printed
a century and a half ago.
"A correspondent from San Francisco
writes that he has never seen a city where
the Sabbath is so generally ignored; where
the leading men have so little regard for
Christianity. Still he has found there not
few earnest Christian men and women.
The Methodists of Canada have now
ten educational institutions employing
ninety instructors for about 800 pupils
Seven are academies for girls. The en-
dowments and property of these institu-
tons are valued at $500, 900, and the ex-
penditures for last year amounted to 800,
900.
The Boston School Committee have
passed an order that, at the beginning of
the next school year, four public schools
for kindergarten instruction shall be es-
tablished there, to admit children at the
age of three years, and to continue the
course of instruction for four years, with
Il kindergarten teacher for each school,
and the necessary apparatus.
DR.. Hurst's Outline History of the
Church" gives these figures: Adhcrents
of Christianity, 407 000, 600; of Buddhism,
340,O00,0 00 of Mohammedanism 200,O00,-
600; of Brahmnlsm, 175, 900, 900; of Con
fucianism, 50, 000, 900; of Judaism, 1000
900; of other religions, 174,o00,0OO. OF
the Christians he assigns 200, 339, 800 to
Roman Catholicism, 13l ,0O7, 449 10 Prot
cSldntlsm anu 'O,ojU,J4U 10 lnc oriental
churches. In the New World the Roman
Catholics number 50,931 1888 and the Prot
estants 36936, 800
The following are some of the salaries
paid to foreign missionaries: In India
the American Board pay their missiona-
ries $1,000; the Presbyterian, 81 900 to
81 $50; the Reformed Dutch), $1,000;
the Methodist, 81 200. In China, the
American Board pay $780, and in South
ern China, $500; the Presbyterian Board
1900, except in Canton, 5000; the Meth
odist, $3.50; the Baptist, 5000 and ahouse !;
the Episcopal, 81 900, In regard to single
missionaries, the American and Presbyte-
rian Boards each pay two-thirds the salary
of married missionary; the Methodists
pay in China $3.50, and in India 81 900 !;
the Baptist, $500 and no house, the Epis-
copal, $500; the Reformed Dutch), 5000
For an unmarried female missionary the
American Board pay onehalf the salary
of married man the Presbyterian Board,
from $3.50 to 5000; the Methodist to Chi
ma S415 and to India, 5000; the Baptist
$400 to $500; the Episcopal, $3.50; the Re
formed Dutch), 5000 the Reformed Pres
byterians, S400.