The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-03-09

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The Americas Home Missionary
Society has aided IL planting All
churches and LOCO ministers are nov
under commission. 1S5 preaching -
foreign languages.
The King 81 siam proposes .
place the Presbyterian mission schools
on the same basis q % Government
aid Is the Government schools AZ .
recent visit 3 Petchaburi. be gave The
hospital 81. 40. and the Queen gave the
girls school 500.
There are l22 Protestant churches
and places Of worship in Paris. with
! ninety-two ministers OF these eight
cen churches with fifteen ministerA
belong TO the Reformed Church o
France. and sixteen churches. with
nineteen ministers - the Lutheran
church.
The Church Of England Il getting
20 pressed for money that Canon Greg
ory proposes to cut down the salary Of
the Archbishop Of Canterbury from
El5.O)O to E12.O00. and the salary o.
the Archbishop OF York from f10. 900
to f8.00O. The house Of the Bishop Of
Ely Is said TO be too costly, and should
be sold
The Fiji Islands have 128. 4l4 in
habitants. Of these Ill. 7i3 are natives;
and Of these. 100. ISL. or more than nine
tenths, are attendants at public wor-
ship There is not an avowed heather
on the Islands. The statistics Of the
Wesleyan mission Of the islands are:
"a native ministers, A catechists.
t.s77 local preachers. 5. 1872 class-lead-
err. "a. 321 church members and l .255
places Of worship.
-Naugatuck Comm Congregations
alfsts are building q parish house. .
modern idea worthy Of imitation. Il
win have twenty-four rooms. besiles
hall, cloak rooms and closets The
first floor has an assembly room. re-
ception room. Sunday-school library
and even class rooms; the second floor
eight class rooms. reading rooms.
kitchen and dining rooms; third floor
for pastors study and a gymnasium
China has progressed more during
the last quarter Of a century than in
all the thirty centuries Of her previous
history, and in the last few months
the progress has been more marked
than ever. Soon thousands Of Chinese
young men whom hopes Of official pc
sition depends upon passing the Gov
srnment examinations will be sitting
at the feet Of American and Euro
pean teachcrx-Spirit Of Missions.
The Methodist Episcopal church
has in the sixteen Southern State.
nearly $1,000 commandments Dur
ing the past twenty years the increas'
has bcen eightfold. In these sam
States it has built more than 400
new churches since the war. Will
! less than o~ne-fourth the same rate 0
/, increase in another generation. tn
same church will have in that terri
tory loo. 900. representing q popula
ton Of 5000. 900 people
I In nothing is the change in ii
system Of education since the days (
. our grandmothers more emphaticall
4 set forth than in one Of the depar
: ments Of 4 fashionable Washingto
school Miss j. Prindell. of Baltimore
4 Is engaged there for the sole purpos
Of lecturing to the pupils on the cul
rent news Of the world She take
for example. such topics as the tariff
the surplus. the Irish and other burr
ing questions. and from these sh
/ giides to lighter and more ephemer:
2 subjects In this way the pupils. Will
. following the course Of ancient history
keeps pace with the hissS-- = moder
= times. and when they leave scho'
they know As much about the reignin
President Of the United States as the
q do about Julius Cesar.