The Osceola times., 1886-03-27
RELIGIOUS AND epUcATIoNA,

The much-disputed Caroline Island,
have forty Congregational churches.
with four thousand members.
A minister in Rocks County. Kan.
rides forty miles and breaches four ser.
mons every Sunday for a salary of two
hundred dollars year. C%icaqo
Tribune.
About the most improbable thing
ministers or religious papers can do is 10
indulge in money calculations as to tbe
cost of converts either at home or
amongthe heather. Chicago Standard.
The Japanese Government has
giycn 10 Vassar Collegea pair of bronze
vases handsomely ornamented with in
laid decorations in gold and silver, in
appreciation of the education given Ia
two japanese girls.-P0pghseepsie
Eagle.
The Emperor William has donated
twenty-five thousand marks to the Ger.
man Teachers Society of London. The
donation was accompanied by an init
nation that the same amount would be
annually Y subscribed
-'If | am Christian, | will be
Christian said Sam Jones in Cincn-
natl III am Methodist, will be
Methodist right through and through,
and don't want to be little one
horse, mule-headed nothing nowherem
1T ia calculated that the disestab-
lishment of the Church of England
would set free funds equal to S9l7.500,-
900, of which, after the payment of all
claims by the clergy for compensation
and similar demands. there would re-
main net gain of $500, 100000.
The total school attendance in New
York State last year was 1924, S4j.
There are 81 ,399 teachers in the public
schools. The number of children Of
school age in the State is l,72l, l26.
OF tho teachers employed in the public
schools in 1885 only 1.20S held normal
school diplomas.-N J. Tribune.
In jacksonville, n. j.. there is a
public school. The other day lad Of
thirteen wears old arose and called for
a vote on the question whether the
teacher of the school was competent to
fill his position. The vote against the
teacher was unanimous. and immedl-
ately every scholar packed up his books
and went home Chicago Times.
The Presbyterian church at Loeb,
RAMA, Arran. Scotland, finds it hard to
get the kind Of minister il wants. The
last candidate was dismissed in short
order, because he "walked with frivo-
lous gait The elders said that his
conversation was all right, but his walk
was decidedly heretical.
The New York Prebsytery has had
a novel question before it. Rev DR..
Nicholas Bjerring, for many years
pastor of the Greek church in New York,
embraced Professionalism. and joined the
PRESBYTERIAN church. He was licensed
to preach by the Presbytery, but on
the question of his ordination as a
minister division arose. Should his
Greek ordination be accepted as valid
or not? The question was put to vote,
and decided in the aflirmative-twenty-
six to sevcntcen.-N. J.. Times.
The first German Baptist Church in
this country was organized in Newark.
n. j., in 1919. A conference was or
ganized in 1851, with eight churches.
eight pastors and 40i members. In
1885 there were 1j5 churches, l5l pas
tors and l2.3j6 members. During the
past year their contributions for home
missions amounted TO -, l75. and for
current church expenses Sll9.944, an
average of 1922 for each church, and
more than 80 for each member.-N T.
Examiner.