The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are IS, 80 Protestant minis
tiers in this country and 9, .2O1 church
members.
The little Chinese Presbyterian
Church of San Francisco last year gave
&91 to home missions and S15S to for
eign missions.
Hardin County, KY, has . public
school fund Of $50, 900. one hundred
public schools. four colleges and acade-
mics, and three female seminaries.
Every morning the aged president
Of William and Mary College rings the
college bell, and. though no one re-
spends. the college is open and still re-
tains its charter.
Swift said the reason . certain uni
versity was . learned place, was that
most persons took some learning there,
and few brought any away with them,
and SO it accumulated.
in the University of Berlin there
are 16 lecturers on theology, "a on law.
los on medicine, IA on metaphysics, 10
on mathematics, So on the natural SCI
ences, 2 on the political sciences. q on
history, II on art, and Sc on philolOgy.
In all there are 2S9 professors, dOcentess
and teachers in the University. Ten
lecturers are common to two faculties
In the twelve Southern States the
number Of children attending school in
1880 was l, 49,, O96, and in this year is
1 1885,, S42. During the same period the
yearly appropriations for the support of
schools has increased from Sc, 415. 1877
to SIC, SS9, 544. The increase in attend
ance is % per cent. and in appropria-
ton 62 per cent, . very good showing
for six years.
The New York San says Rev. DR..
Gottheil, rabbi of Temple Emanuel. is
the brains Of the so-called modern or
reformed Jewish faith, which insists
that old religious forms are but old
husks. He is about sixty years old.
short in stature, and has soft, dark eyes
and an incisive manner of speech. He
believes in newspapers. Taking re-
porter notebook in his hand yesterday,
he said: ut is the modern book of fate"
"A Western country parson who has
been spending his vacation in Boston.
says: although have been treated
like q prince, and found warm hearts
under cold exteriors, can not but real
ize that wealth and culture are making
ice-boxes of churches which ought to be
warm with Christian love. That would
make the stranger feel as if he were in
his fathers house and all around him
were brethren. "-Christian Union.
Thomas White. an Englishman. who
taught school in Orange County. NY.
during the Revolutionary war and died
in 1907, directed by his will that ten dol
lars should be paid to each of four
churches for q sermon on q designated
subject on a certain Sabbath in every
year forever. In the Reformed Church
at Port Jervis and the Presbyterian
Church at Goshen this requirement has
been complied with. The other two
have failed.
The Lutheran Observer gives the
following facts as result of the work
of the General Synod in church building
and repairing during the year 1885.
There were in all thirty new church
buildings erected at q total cost of
S225, 900, of which amount $4,000 was
raised on dedication day. OF the total
number seventeen were consecrated free
of debt. There were also thirty churches
substantially rebuilt at cost of S49, 900.
of which amount $4,000 was raised on
the day of rededication; eighteen were
reconstructed free of debt.