The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The First parish Snnday-school OF
Charleston, Mass, which is tho oldest
one in New England, celebrated its sew.
entieth anniversary recently.
Cornell University will confer no
honorary degrees hereafter, and to be-
come a doctor of laws under the new
rules of the institution one must be ex-
amined.-lGhGcG journal.
Hereafter the students a. the New
Jersey State Scientific School, in addi-
ton to the military drill, will receive
instructions in craftsmanship on q
range in the suburbs of New Bruins.
wick.--M Y Sun.
The Methodist Church in Canada
has three local preachers who are mil
lionaires, w. E. Sandford, OF Haml-
ton; John Macdonald, OF Toronto. and
G. A Cox, of Peterboro. -1oro'ato
Muil.
Rev. Jeremiah O'Hearn, . priest OF
the Roman Cat lolic Church, has been
received into the Baptist Church at
Dallas, Tex. He had spent three years
investigating and studying the Baptist
faith.--N. T. Witness.
in recent discourse DIR. Hopkins,
ex-president of Williams, stated that
of the 1850 graduates of the college.
1929 have sat under his instruction in
the slxty-one years during which he
has been connected with it-M 7.
Tribune.
Chaplain McCabe claims that the
Methoiists in this country "gave last
year for the work of God" S19. 9.041, 387.
including 1892, ,407 for the support Of
pastors, elders and bishops; 81, 131 ,8S1
for building churches and parsonages;
81, 900, 900 for missions; $3, SOC, ,OO0 for
current expenses of 300 churches.
Recently census of the attend
| ance of the churches of London, Eng,
was taken. It showed that 460, 900
| persons attended the services in the
| morning and 100000 at night The
| largest established church, St. Paul. 8,
had an evening attendance of 3,403.
Mr.. Spurgeon's church was at the head
| of the dissenting churches, having q
morning attendance of 4.519 and an
evening attendance of 6,070.
DIR. John 81. Brunner, in his Union
| of the Churches, puts the number Of
| negro Methodists at 700, 600, which is
more than half the number if the status
tics of the various churches are correct.
They are as follows, viz: African Meth
odist Episcopal Zion, 400, 900; African
Methodist Episcopal, 391, 900; Methodist
Episcopal, 225, 200; Colored Methodist.
155, 600; all others combined, 25,000.'
Total, 1,196,0
At the annual session of the Synod
of the Reformed Church held in Phila-
delphia, resolut. .ons fayoring coust:tu-
tional amendment prohi iting the man
ufacture and sale of liquor, and request
ing Congress to legis!ate in favor Of
Indians holding land ind vidually, were
passed. The offer of the town of Wich-
ita, Kan, in regard to the establishment
of college there was accepted. The
statistics show that the body has now
215 ministers, 458 congregations. and
76,030 members. Philadelphia Press.
There is, perhaps, no science OF
equal importance and interest which re-
ceives so little attention, in or out of
the schools, as ornithology. Now and
then little spasm of sentimental preju-
dice can be aroused against the ruthless
slaughtering of birds to secure orna-
ments for the milliners. But as for any
intelligent interest in bird LIE, any real
knowledge of their habits, any adequate
appreciation of Their value in the econo-
my of nature, there is, outside tie little
band of specialists, absoluteli nome
Providence Journal.