The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Tutors at Harvard are said to re-
ceive salaries of from $500 to 81, POO a
year, while the trainer in athletics gets
$1,000
The English Church Congress of
tober 5, 6, and 8. The Bishop of
Ripon has been chosen president for
the year.
AT a late meeting of the Psesbyte-
rian Synod of Dakota the Indian women
reported having raised five hundred
dollars for missionary work among
their own people the past year. This
was more than all the money raised by
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 are 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 out exceedingly thin-S05
francisco Chronicle.
-Charlemagne in 7S9 gave these
wise instructions: "Let some one 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
ists.''
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
were brought to public places, on which
the wild barons swore 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 result we note an
advance in churches from 1913 to 292;
of church members from $500 to 49,
900; of pupils in common schools from
5000 to $1,000; of native pastors from
% to 147, not to speak of the growth
of large and efficient body of native
preachers and teachers acting as cola
borers with us in the evangelization of
their people. ~. Y. Tribune.
The ecclesiastical summary of the
Roman Catholic Church in the United
States for the year ending January L,
1886, shows that the Archbishops num-
Der II, Bishops 81 and priests 1926.
There are 1921 ecclesiastical students,
the Archdiocese of Milwaukee having
the largest number-335 There are
6,755 churches, LOU chapels, 1,733
stations, SO diocesan seminaries or
houses of study for regulars, So col
leges, 618 academies and 1921 paro-
chial schools, attended by 492,949
pupils. The charitable Institutions
number $40.
AS stated in the PrOUhzidl- ScHuI-
collegi@m the maximum of daily school
work considered in Prussia to be COM
patible with health is fixed at from sew
en- hours a day for children of eleven
and half years, up to nine hours for
those of sixteen and half and upward
The standard is thought too high by
very many German teachers and doe
tors, and Dr.. Roth states that sixty
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 a recent government investigation
finds that twenty-nine per cent. of the
boys and forty-one per cent of the girls
are ''sickly" from confinement and
mental strain.