Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-03-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

Tho American Home Missionary
Society has aided in planting SAT-
churches and 1. 600 ministers are now
under commission. 1S5 preaching in
foreign languages.
The King Of Siam proposes to-
place the Presbyterian mission schools
on the same basis as to Government
aid as the Government schools At q.
recent visit to Petchaburi. he gave the.
hospital 81. 40. and the Queen gave the
girls school $500.
There are 122 Protestant churches
and places Of worship in Paris. with
ninety-two ministers. OF these eight
cen churches. with fifteen ministers.
belong to the Reformed Church Of
France. and sixteen churches. with
nineteen ministers. to the Lutheran
church.
The Church Of England is getting
so pressed for money that Canon Greg
DRY proposes to cut down the salary of
the Archbishop of Canterbury from
El5.O0O to E12.OOO. and the salary of
the Archbishop of York from 10000
to 5000 The house Of the Bishop OF
Ely is said to be too costly. and should
be sold.
The Fiji Islands have 123. 414 in
habitants. Of these Ill. 743 are natives,
and of theseS1OO 154sor 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 on the islands ares
81 native ministers, A catechists.
1,S77 local preachers. 1892 class-lead-
ers, q, 421 church members and l. 255
places of worship.
-Naugatuck Conn., Congregations
alists are building a parish house. a
modern idea worthy of imitation. It
will have twenty-four rooms. besides
hall, cloak rooms and closets The
first floor has an assembly room. re-
ception room, Sundays school library
and seven class rooms; the second floor
eight class rooms. reading rooms.
kitchen and dining rooms; third floor
for pastors study and gymnasium.
China has progressed more during
the last quarter of 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 POI
sition depends upon passing the Cow
eminent examinations will be sitting
at the feet of American and Euro
pean teachers.-Spirit of Missions.
The Methodist Episcopal church
has in the sixteen Southern States
nearly 10000 communicates. Dur
ing the past twenty years the increase
has been eightfold. In these same
States it has built more than 1000
new churches since the war. With
less than one-fourth the same rate of.
increase in another generation, the
same church will have in that terri
tory LOCO. 600. representing popula-
ton of 1000. 900 people.
I'm nothing is the change in tho
system of education since the days of
our grandmothcrs more emphatically
set forth than in one of the depart
ments of fashionable Washington
school. Miss j. Prindell, of Baltimore,
is engaged there for the sole purpose
of lecturing to the pupils on the cur
rent news of the world. She takes.
for example, such topics as the tariff.
the surplus. the Irish and other burn
ing questions. and from these she
glides to lighter and more ephemeral
subjects. In this way the pupils. while
following the course of ancient history.
keeps pace with the history of modern
times. and when they leave school
they know as much about the reigning
President of the United States rs they
do about Julius CAESAR