The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-12-25

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The minutes of the last PRESBYTERIAN
General Assembly show that l15 of
their churches last wear received addi-
tons of 80 and over each.
Two or three clergymen in Brook
lvn introduced the practice of giving
brief talks to the children be ore begin
ming the morning sermon. BF0Oktyn
Ghi0p.
Rome papers report that the Pope
intends to establish II great university IN
the Lateran Palace. The head of the
Universities Leonina is to be the Jesuit
Cardinal Mazzella.
The Chinaman in Amcric is being
more and more cared for. According
to the New York Ir,bnne ''twenty-two
Chinese missions have been established
in New York and BROOKLYN since 1873,
and are na ilourishing cond ton. What
is more, a large proportion of the con-
vert stick
In an article publ she'd in the Nou-
Ceile RerUe. a French traveller declares
that there is scarcely village in Syria
without a Protestant church: IN pre than
one NAV be found even N the gorges OF
Mount lIermon. At BeN rout there is
German hosp tai and American univer-
sitv. where the most practical sciences
are tau ght especially th.t of medicine.
"A Century of Protes ant Missions,
is the title OF Il ook pubhsne in Eng
land by the Rev. James ] NhnSton. 1t
makes the startling estimate that while
5000. 600 converts have zen added to
the churches. there are n wv 20 900. 600
more heather in the world than there
We're when Pro est mt m Ssions began
hundred years gp.-N y Witness.
The Hi,tStraLed ChriS'i0N VI erkIU fol-
lows up the remarks of President Eliot.
of Harvard, in dcnuncation of the ten
dency to extravaganza that seems to be
increasing among coleg ans with some
appropriate remarks of his own. Owing
to this extravaganza, the scale of eN-
pendlture is raised to all. and it will
cost the frugal student of to-day from
80 to 100 per cent. more than it did their
equally frugal fathers to take college
course in similar comfort.
In Brazil are foLnd the best schools
in South Amer ca. They are divided
in o 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
responds to our college. namely,
college Don Pedro IL in Rio de
Janeiro The lower schoo are free
and the law even demands compulsory
attendance.
The Bishop of Rochester does not
approve of the popular clamor for briet
sermons. DO not" he advises h
ecclesiastical suhordinateS, read |,
give in to what is often only worldly
cry for short sermons. You need a
great deal more eXpe rience than you
can claim now for making a fifteen
minutes sermon that shall be really
us full 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 into it tSat
it will be impossible to endure 1t.
The figures laid before the Metho-
dist conference show the steady growth
of the Methodist Church in Canada
The membership is placed at l97, 479.
There are 1.6l0 m nSters and proba-
TONERS. The church has property to
the value of &9,975.043. The number
of SundaySchools is 1913. with an at
tendance of 1871. lS5. Sabbath-school
papers have crculat on of 229, $50.
The work of temperance, according to
the rep ut of the statistics comm ttee,
has been carried on energetically, as is
witnessed by the fact that 46, $50 Sun
day-school scholars have taken the total
abstinence pledge.