The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-09-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

lit Is id that $4,000 copies 81
printed sermons are gratuitously dis
tributed every week in Berlin and q
few other German cities.
Priests and religious teachers have
been expelled from l36 schools in Paris
during the last three years, and 1913
Christian free schools have been MAIN
tanned.
The Methodist ministers Of New
England receive an average salary of
$500 a year, the Baptists triile more,
the Presbyterians $40, and the Epis-
aopalians 5000 Boston Post
Mr.. Elan r. Jewett has offered to
the Church Charity Foundation of Buff
falo lot of ground in that city on GER
tain conditions, the principal Of which
Is that chapel to the memory OF the
late Rev. DR.. Edward Ingersoll, to be
called the ..Ingersnll Memorial Chapel, =
at cost of not less than $4,000. shall
be erected on the property. and shall
be ready for occupation within three
years from date. The Board of Man
ayers of the Foundation have accepted
the gift. = Buffalo IN ~ Express.
This incident is recorded by The
Christian at Work: "Our Methodist
brethren are not always considerable in
their responsive outbreaks. and here is
an instances As the Rev. DR.. Bowman
was about to begin his sermon on last
Sunday evening at Ocean Grove, he re-
marked: Many of you have never seen
me before, and in all probability many
of you will never see me again. .Amen!'
shouted an enthusiastic brother. The
minister smiled with the congregation.
How could he help itp'
In letter written by Thaddeus
Stevens In 1864 to a lady who had
thanked him for his efforts in behalf OF
free school system, Mr.. Stevens said
'When entered the Legislature about
thirty years ago there was not school
IN any part Of the State where the chill
dren Of the poor could acquire common
education without recording themselves
paupers and being recognized and
treated as such by their fellow stu
dents. Few awaited themselves Of
these odious conditions, and the poor
mans child was doomed to ignorance.
Now there Is no obscure, barren spot
within the broad limit Of Pennsylvania
where the children of the rich and poor
do not meet in common schools on equal
terms. Detroit Post.
The Edinburgh Scotsman recently
contained the following statements
made by DIR. Peddie, of that city, to his
congregation, concerning two extraor
binary pastorates: ''On the 3rd o.
April, 1888, my late father was or
dained to the ministry In this congre
CATION. Since that date a century had
elapsed on Tuesday last, which was OF
the 3rd Of April, 1888. | was associ
ated, as most OF you know, with m,
father as his colleague, during the las
seventeen years of his life; and having
received help of God, continue to thi'
day; so that father and son have serve,
you in the ministry Of the gospel for ,
hundred years continuously. Neither
of us ever had any other charge thar
this congregation; and as my fathe1
when he died had completed sixty-twt
years in the ministry, and | have com
pleted fifty-four, the sum Of these peri
DDS of service is 116 years. l do no
mention these things, hope, to glorif,
myself, but rather to magnify Cod
goodness to us. The facts / have nov
stated are probably quite unique; Ger
tainly they have been very rarely
paralleled.