Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-08-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The 1s6th anniversary of tho dedi-
cation of Gloria Del Church, commonly
known as Old Swedos, was celebrated 9
few days ago in Philadelphia
After five years of deadlock with
England over the appointment of the
Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, Prussia
has decided to found an independent
bishopric there.
Rev. DIR. Pullman, of Baltimore,
announced TO his congregation recent.
that he would marry people for one
dollar per couple, and would unite job
lots Mt fifty cents a pair.-Bdtttmore
Sun.
In Germany there are now eight
schools OF forestry, where training OF
five years is necessary for students seek
ing Government positions. France sup
ports a single school at Nancy.
There are seven hundred religious
denominatonal newspapers published
in the United States, and nearly one
third of them are printed in New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago.-M
Y. Tribune.
Three hundred happy schoolmarms
from cvcrywhere; members of the Gin
cinnati Teachers Excursion Association,
sa led, recently, on the Servia to set
all they can of Europe in one summer.
~ T. MaH,
The German Universities have one
hundred and fifty seven professors
between the ages OF seventy and ninety,
and one hundred and twenty-five af
them are still at work-two of them
still lecturing at the age of ninety years.
The school board of Paris looks
after the health of the girls, and in
order that they perform their tasks un-
der the best sanitary conditions posi-
bic, a lady physician has been appointed
as medical inspector of girls in Partisan
schools.
The Christian linton says: at is a
mistake to 60 to church only or chiefly
for sermon. Worship is the express
sion of reverence and love toward God.
Public worship is that expression by
number uniting for the purpose.
The Chicago Interior says that
fifty-cent Bible judiciously distributed
will beat half a dozen policemen in pre-
venting crime, and that an evangelical
Sabbath school or church in a destitute
portion of city will prevent more
crime than half its police.
I know clergyman who shortened
his prayer to eight minutes, instead of
fifteen. His sermons were commenced
by eleven, never later than ten minutes
after, and always concluded by 11:45.
Within three months after he had made
this change there was revival in the
church. .-Albany Journal
Very few graduates of Harvard
know that the gilded cross over one of
the doors of Gore hall, at the college, is
trophy of the capture of Louisburg by
New England troops in 1744. 1t was
taken from French church, and its
present location is the more appropri-
ate since the motto of the colonist
troop was mi desperandum Christie
duce, and that of the college is "Christo
ct ecclesie. ."-Haryord Courant.
Alfred the Great said that when he
began to reign there were very few
clergymen south of the Humber, who
could even understand the prayer book
(that was still in Latin as the Roman
missionaries had brought iD, and south
of the Thames he could not remember
one. His first care was to get better
educated clergy, and then he estab-
lished schools for the laity, and pro-
cured the best teachers. He founded
new monasteries and restored the old
ones which had been razed.