Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-07-19
RELIelous AND EDUCATIONAL.

| hEElSiOOS. NNDs,.EGOSS i'OlNSIs
/ Colleges where thero Is no rolig-
ious Influence upon Tho students never
graduate the bost men.
Tho agent of the Bible Society in
Toxic, Japan, has been unable to meet
tho great demand for the Bible in that
city. .....
The Zonana Medical College, Lon
don, trains young women for medical
missionary work in India, China, Sy-
ria, and other Oriental countries.
The French minister of education
has offered gold medal for tho best
French scholar TO be found in English
schools. His ofror is intended TO en-
courage the study OF French h
1t has cost the city OF Boston to
supply school-books for the last five
years nn average per year of 6S cents
for each scholar. The number OF
scholars is set down ut 2,0o7.
The educational report in India for
1888 shows that there were 3,460, Si4
pupils in the schools, and 240, 472
scholars in the private schools, being
about III per cent. of the entire pupils
OF the school-going ago iu that vast
country.
1t appears from the Year Book OF
the Church of England that in 1875 the
number of persons confirmed in Eng
land was under 1850 while for 1888
the corresponding total was over 217-
600; an increase in thirteen years of
nearly So per cent, which is almost
four times as great us the growth OF the
population.
"A gentleman who withholds his
name proposes to establish for period
of five years, through the New York
City Superintendent OF Education,
twelve scholarships for poor boys in
the schools who wish to go to college.
In order to enable them to do this he
will give to the parents or guardians OF
each of the boys selected $3.50 q year to
support him while he is in college.
Moro money has been spent by
Northern men for collegiate education
for negroes in Atlanta than any six
Southern States have given to col
legiate education to white boys. The
Northern Methodist Church alone is
spending more money in the South for
higher education than all the Southern
States combined give to their colleges.
These figures are not only startling
they are Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Tho city of Buenos Ayres, in the
Argentine Republic, has expended dur
ing the last six years $40, 600. 900 in con-
structing sixty magnificent school
buildings for 600 pup ills each.
These school houses are the finest build
ings in the city, and u collective OK
hibit of them has made a sensation at
the Paris Exposition. The Argentine
Republic is now, after the United States,
the country which spends most in pro-
portion to population, for education.
The missionary work done in Japan
during the past year shows marked
increase over 1887. The increase in
men in the field is 80, unmarried wo-
men, 81; total increase of women, in
Guiding wives, 90; new stations, 3; out
stations, s; churches, 2S; baptized
adult converts, 1889; total increase of
members, 5,525; scholars in boarding
and day-chools, 2,553; theological stu
dents, Il; native ministers. 40i unor-
dained preachers and helpers, &c; ma
tive contributions, 800, SS3.
AT recent meeting in Boston Mrs,
NJ. A. Ehlers, superintendent of the
Baptist Southern Missions, made this
statement: 'The masses of the colored
people of the South to-day are morally
wretched. A large proportion of the
pastors of our Baptist churches in the
South are immoral men. Many of them
are drunk the whole year through;
many of them are of abandoned charac-
ter. and not worthy to be intrusted
with the teaching of any one, much
less to be pastors of churches and lead
ers of the people"