The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-11-18
RELloIoUs AND EDUCATIONAL.

The minutes of the last Presbyterian
General Assembly show that ITO %
their churches last year received addi-
tions of 80 and over each.
Two or three clergymen IN Brook
lyn introduced the practice OF giving
brief talks to the children before begin
ming the morning sermon. on.-BrookIy"
Union.
Rome papers report that the Pope
intends to establish great university IN
the Lateran Palace. The head OF the
Universities Leonina Is to be the Jesuit
Cardinal Maszelia.
The Chinaman in America Is being
more and more cared for. According
to the New York Tribune ''twenty-twO
Chinese missions have been established
in New York and Brooklyn since 1873.
and are in flourishing condition. WhsS
is more, 9 large proportion of the con-
vert stick"
In an article published in the Nou-
velle Revue, French traveller declares
that there 10 scarcely village In Syria
without a Protestant church; more than
one may be found even in the gorges Of
Mount Hermon. At Beyrout there Is .
German hospital and American univer-
sity, where the most practical sciences
are taught especially that of medicine.
"a Century Of Protestant Missions,"
is the title Of book published in Eng
land by the Rev. James Johnston. II
makes the startling estimate that while
100000 converts have been added to
the churches, there are now 200, 600. 900
more heather In the world than there
were when Protestant missions began q
hundred years age.-M Y. Witness.
The Illustrated Csristiaw Weekly fol-
lows up the remarks of President Eliot,
of Harvard, in denunciation Of the ten
dency to extravaganza that seems to be
increasing among collegians with some
appropriate remarks Of his own. Owing
to this extravaganza, the scale of ex-
penditure Is raised to all, and 1t will
cost the frugal student of to-day from
80 to 100 per cent. more than 1t did their
equally frugal fathers to take college
course in similar comfort.
I'm Brazil are found the best schools
in South America They are divided
into three grades-the primary, the
secondary, and the technical schools.
The first two correspond to the various
grades of our public schools. There Is
but one institution in the country cor
responding to our college, namely.
college Don Pedro IL" In Rio de
Janeiro. The lower schools are free,
and the law even demands compulsory
attendance.
The Bishop of Rochester does not
approve of the popular clamor for brief
sermons. ''Do not" he advises his
ecclesiastical subordinates. ''readily
give in to what is often only worldly
cry for short sermons. You need q
great deal more experience than you
can claim now for making fifteen
minutes sermon that shall be really
useful. Either SO much will be COM
pressed into it that it will become load
ed and obscure. or what is perhaps
more likely, so little will g" into it that
it will be impossible to endure it."
Tho figures laid before the Metho-
dist conference show the steady growth
of the Methodist Church in Canada.
The membership is placed at 1877. 479.
There are 1,6l0 ministers and proba-
TONERS. The church has property to
the value of $9,975, ,O43. The number
of Sunday-schools is 2,675, with an at
tendance of 191,185. Sabbath-school
papers have circulation of 229, ,639.
The work of temperance, according to
the report of the statistics committee,
has been carried on energetically, as is
witnessed by the fact that 1920 Sum
day-school scholars have taken the total
abstinence pledge.