The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rudolph Albrecht's university at
Vienna is the largest in Europe. It has
2Sj professors and 1921 students.
- The average age of those who enter
college in this country :s seventeen; a
century ago it was fourteen. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The average salary of the Metho-
dist preachers of the Baltimore Con-
ference is 1885, :, year. Sixty preachers,
some of them married, receive less
than this amount, and one receives only
$3.50. Baltimore Sun.
The Rev. G. s. Sargent. of New
Haven, IT., has given to the Congrega-
tionalist cheering description of u
work of the Holy Spirit. He says:
''The churdhes of the Chap lain Mallev
are experiencing work of grace and an
outpouring of the Spirit such as has
not been known for fifty years"
The Christian ADVOCATE states that
during the past three months upward
of one hundred thousand persons in
the Methodist Episcopal denomination
have responded to the appeals of pas
tors and friends, and professed to give
their hearts to God, through Christ,
and their names as candidates for ad-
mittance into the Christian Church."
simultaneous meetings held at the
same day and the same hour, for the
purpose of advancing the interests of
the missionary societies of the church,
are frequent in England, and the Epis-
copnl Recorder thinks they might be in
troduced into this country with advant-
age, and, moreover, that an en- ire
week should be devoted to the cause of
missions.
Since the accession of Pope Leo
XIII. forty-four Cardinals have died.
Of the Cardinals created by Pope Plus
TX. twenty-six are still living, the re-
naming thirty-four have been created
by Leo XIII. There are now ten va
cancies in the Sacred College. Cardi-
nal Newman is the oldest of the Cardi-
| nails. There are now 1,20S dignitaries
in the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
1-The vast work that is being done
by the four great Bible and Tract soci-
| cites of this country and of England is
| hardly understood or appreciated by
the public. The daily issues of the two
Bible societies was 18, 243 for each work.
| ing day of 1885. The total issues of
| these two societies for 1885 reached the
enormous number of 5,7O9,207 copies
| of the Scriptures. These are startling
figures. Brooklyn Eagle.
The attention of the Catholic
Church is beginning to be attracted to
Alaska as promising missionary field.
The country is vast and the population
| estimated at 10000, but in all that ter
ritory there are but two priests. This
state of affairs is likely to be soon reme-
died, Archbishop Segbers, of Oregon
| City. having given up his see for the
purpose of taking the field in the ardu-
Gus missionary labor in Alaska.-N. Y.
Times.
| The American missions of South
| Africa have recently celebrated their
tiftieth anniversary at the oldest mis-.
sion station, which is named after its
revered founder, DR.. Adams. The
| Lieutenant Governor of Natal, Sir
Charles Mitchell, was present and the
flags of England and America waved
together in the breeze. He expressed,
in his speech, the hearty sympathy OF
the Government with the work of the
missionaries, which has been so sue.
cessful in that part of the world. The
! great feature of the celebration was the
! opening of Jubilee Hall, which is the
name that has been given to the new
seminary for boys.