The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-06-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Congregational Academy at
Salt Lake City, Utah, has six teachers
and 240 pupils, large proportion of
whom come from Mormon homes.
Washington is remarkably re-
ligious city Statistics show $50
churches, with 1881 members. OF
this total membership, however, about
q, 900 are in the colored churches,
A returning missionary writes to a
church paper: I'VE suffer 80 much In
the hot season that we are fully con-
vinced that it is the will of the Lord
that we should return to America be-
fore the hottest Indian weather is upon
us again"
He was graduate in natures
university. Nature is wiser than the
schoolmaster; sshe educates,. but she
never Grams. Her scholars do not 60
up to take their degrees; their degrees
come to them.-Jedn inqelosc.
In 1877 there were twenty-thr co
Danish Norwegian Bapti-, churches in
eight Western States, with 1.S5G ~ea.
bers, seventeen ordained ministers and
twelve meeting houses. Now there are
tbifty-uine churches, thirty-four min
fsters and twenty-seven meeting houses.
N Y. Examiner.
Since 1879 women have been adj
mitted to universities in Sweden, Nor
way, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain
and France. At st. Petersburg in
1882 ninety-fine young women were
given degrees in the literary and histor-
zeal department and sixtyfour IN she
scientific department.
Japanese educators are making an
effort to Substitute Roman letters for
those now in use in Japan. 1t would
probably require but little persuasion to
induce the people 10 arfcpt the English
language outright. if one iiiay Judge from
the willingness with which they have
accepted other American and English
customs and methods Current.
The public hears from time to time
of discussion over the question OF
public worship at Harvard University.
III point Of fact, there are at present
no regular Sunday services in the col
lege chapel. During the winter an oc-
casonal discourse was given. Attend
ance upon some church on Sunday is
no longer requisite, but by recent de-
eisidri compulsory attendance upon
morning prayers IN the college chapel
is continued.-M Y. Sun,
An snciefit custom was observed
recently at a London church where, in
accordance with the will N Peter Sy-
monds, which dates so far back as the
wear 1886, sixty of the younger boys of
Christ's Hospital attended divine serv-
ices in the morning, and tfterward re-
ceived new penny and bag OF fails
ms. 1t was stated that this was the two
hundred and ninety-tirst celebration of
this quaint ceremony.
AT Portland, Me-, q clergyman who
manages d Gospel temperance mission
has organized "Gideon i Band" which
is said to introduce Wagnerian effects
in the choruses sung during the sery-
ices, the idea on which the scheme is
founded being taken from Judges, vii,
Ii: "And he (Gideon) divided 300
men into three companies, and he put
q trumpet into every man 8 hand, with
empty pitchers and lamps within the
pitchers. "-B6ston journal.
The famous "Code4 Areenteus, "
the four gospels translated by Bishop
Ulphilas, is preserved in the University
Of Upsala. 1t is written on 1872 leaves
of parchrfietft IN letters of silver on a
ground of faded purple. I, is kept in a
glass case and under lock and key II
dates back to the second half of the
fourth century. and, besides being OF
value to the religious world, it gives the
secular world all the KNOWLEDGE il now