Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

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Tutors at Harvard are said to ~,
ceivc salaries of from $500 to 81, 200
year, while the trainer in athletics oats
$4,000. o."
The English Church Congress .,
1886 will be held at Wakefield, on o.
tober 5, 6, z and 8. The Bishon ~
Ripon has been chosen president for
the year.
AT a late meeting of the Psesbvte.
rian Synod of Dakota the Indian women
reported having raised five hundred
dollars for missionary work amono
their own people the past year. This
was more than all the money raised hv
their white sisters in three societies. '
Missionary work in Mexico is at.
tended with hard work and slender re.
suits. A missionary preacher writes
that he and one other preacher arc ex-
pected to supply eight churches, and
also to open new fields Of labor. In
order to do this they will have to spread
themselves ont exceedingly thin -S
Francisco Chronicle.
-Charlemagnc in 7S9 gave these
wise instructions: "Let some open
schools to teach children to read; let,
in every monastery, in every bishopric,
some one teach psalms, writing, arith.
metic, grammar and employ correct
copies Of holy books; for often men
seeking to pray to God pray badly on
account of the unfaithfulness of COPY.
lists"
In France in the tenth and eleventh
centuries there seems to have been a
kind of religious ''revival" of peace.
The clergy preached it; religious en-.
thusiasts went from village to village
proclaiming in the name Of Christ, the
''Prince of Peace" and holy relies
We're brought to public places, on which
the wild barons wor q vow of peace.
Rev. Dr.. Clark, in reviewing the
work of the American Board of Foreign
Missions during the last twenty-five
years. says: "As a result we note an
advance in churches from 1O3 to 1872;
of church members from $500 to 49,
900; of pupils in common schools from
5000 to 5 5000; Of native pastors from
25 to 147, not to speak of the growth
of a large and efficient body of native
preachers and teachers acting as cola
borers with us in the CHARACTERIZATION of
their people."-N. Y. Tribune.
The ecclesiastical summary of the
Roman Catholic Church in the United
States for the year ending January !,
1886, shows that the Archbishops num-
Der ~, Bishops 81 and priests 1926.
There arc 1921 ecclesiastical students,
the Archdiocese of Milwaukee having
the largest number-335. There arc
6,755 churches, 1,O71 chapels, 1873
stations, So diocesan seminaries or
houses of study for regulars, IS COL
leges, 61S academies and 1921 paro-
chial schools, attended by 1872, $40
pupils. The charitable institutions
number 40.
As stated in the PfoUMziol- Schul-
coUcgium the maximum of daily school
work considered in Prussia to be COM
patiblc with health is fixed at from sew
en- hours q day for children of eleven
and u half years, up to nine hours for
those of sixteen and q half and upward.
The standard is thought too high by
very many German teachers and doe
tors, and Dr.. Roth states chat sixty-four
per cent. of those who should work
after graduation are much below the
normal standard of health. The
standard in Denmark is. still higher,
and q recent government Investigation
finds that twenty-ninc per cent. of the
boys and %forty-one per cent. Of The girls
are ''sickly" from confinement and
mental strain.