The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

a hOW AbuSSloh ShukCh TON pic II
to be dedicated at Moscow in August
next. 1t was begun in 1888, and will
cost over SIS. 100000.
"A committee of Wisconsin teachers
recommend that no State certificate be
granted to any person except upon ex.
animation, and then not until after he
has successfully taught. for at least five
years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock, Of Mich.
igan, the widely known Quaker Mis-.
sionary, has visited 115, 900 prisoners,
and of this number she finds that 105,-
600 were brought to prison through
strong drink.
The Massachusetts State Board OF
Education has lately been Investigating
the matter of District Superintendenoy
and all the answers to inquiries ad-
dressed to other States have shown the
satisfactory result of such supervision.
Twenty years ago Baptist Sun
day-school in Boston sent a library to
Lawrence, Kan. After it had been
there some time it did duty in the first
Sunday-school which was opened in
Denver. Thence it was transferred to
an anti Mormon Sunday-sch at Salt
Lake City, where it is supposed to be
still doing duty.
The Reformed (Dutch) churches OF
the Northwest are in just such a fer
ment as agitated churches in New York
q generation ago, over the Masonic
question. One party pronounces it
" an anti Christian institution" and
another party defends it Churches
and Synods are divided, and the next
General Synod will be called on to de-
eide the question. L
DIR. Jacob Ide, who died recently
at his home in West Medway, Mass,
had been in the ministry for nearly sew
enty years, and had he lived until
March he would have been ninety-five
years of age. He was the son of farm
er in humble circumstances, but by
teaching was able to complete a college
course ut Brown University and to take
a degree at Andover. --.TE.s D..
Christ Church (EpiscopaD Boston,
erected in 1888, is now over one hum
dred and fifty years old, and can thus
claim a greater age than any other
church in that city. From its belfry
were swung the lanterns that flashed
their signal to Paul Revere the night
of his famous ride to Lexington, giving
warning of the anticipated English
raid. Rev. Henry Burroughs, ID. D.,
is the present rector. The furniture of
the chancel is plain and antique, while
the prayer-books and Bibles are hon
orable also with age, having been be-
slowed in 1888 by King George II.
Cardinal Manning and his Episco-
pal colleagues have just issued Lon
don a Catholic directory. from which
interesting statistics of the state of the
Roman Church in that country have
been derived. From the list Of men,
bers Of the Sacred College of Cardinals
it appears that there are now six Cardi-
nal Archbishops, fifty Cardinal Priests,
and twelve Cardinal Deacons, one of
the latter being John Henry Newman.
There are only two survivors of the
Cardinals whom Gregory XVI, the
predecessor of Plus TX, created; three
vacancies exist, and already in the pres
ent Ponti6cate nine Cardinals have
died. In Great Britain and Ireland and
the Colonial dependencies of England
there are fourteen Archiepiscopal and
seventy.seven Episcopal sees, besides
thirty-four Vicariates (sees held by
Vicars-Apostolic) and eight Episcopal
Prefectures. Including eleven auxili-
ary Bishops there are now holding
Office within the limits of the British
Empire 127 Bishops and Archbishops,
with few retired Bishops, of whom
four live permanently in England. Of
Roman Catholic peers there are thirty
eight, being an increase of three, and
of Catholic Baronets, forty-eight. The
number of Priests in England, Wales
and Scotland is 2,211. They serve
1, ,438 churches and chapels, not inclu-
ding the domestic and private chapels
in houses of gentlemen and noblemen.