Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Fhe new cathedral of Berlin. now
IN courseof erection, will be the larg-
est Protestant church in Germany.
l. The Methodist Episcopal church.
has now 2. 1912 communicates. o.
os5, I35 last year, indicating a net gain
In 1888 OF over 10000.
| More than 1000 churches in En-
gland, including Rev. Charles H. Spur
geon's Tabernacle, use unfermented-
wine at the communion.
The Seventh General Catalogue of
the Divinity School of Yale Univer--
sity was lately issued. Itcontains the.
records so far as known of the l.452
graduates of the seminary from 1925 to,
1883.
In analysing congregational gen.
crosby it is found that among the
Baptists Sc cents is the annual contrl--
buttons per head; the Methodists. IA
cents; Episcopal, 81. 81; Presbyteriaas.
s.. II. and the Dutch. s5.21.
The will of the late William Thaw..
of Pittsburgh, bequeaths Sl2O.000 to-
Presbyterian boards, 100000 to thes
Wesleyan University of Pennsylvania
$4,000 to the American board and.
500, 600 to hospitals in Pittsburgh.
The German Evangelical or United
Synod now numbers els pastors in
charge Of about 500 congregations. To-
Gated in twenty-five States and divided
into thirteen district synods. It's total
benevolent contributions for three
years past amount to $177,752. There.
remains a debt of $4,000 on its theo--
logical seminary.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese,
of Mississippi reports: Clergy, 81; lay
readers. "a; churches and chapels, CO.,
confirmed during the year, 2S4; COM
municants, 2,6S2; Sunday-school teach
ers, 259; scholars, 1,770; total contri-
buttons reported, 1874. AS. IS; value of
church property, 1904, 740..
"A clergyman in the London sub
urbs. the vicar of St Andrews, Willes-
den. has resolved to give garden
party on Sunday afternoons. The
people do not come to his church in
such numbers as he could wish, and
he is going to see whether tea, fruit
and lemonade will draw them in the
afternoon.
Six pastors in one hundred and
sixty years is a fact which tells good
story for church. 1t is a record
which the Presbyterian Church of
Bethlehem, N. j.. may always be
proud to show. Three of these pas
torates have each extended over forty
years, and the fOrtieth anniversary Of
the pastorate of Rev. Joseph G. Will
Jams, the present incumbent, was cell
ebrated recently.
The holidays of the Paris board
school children are holidays indeed.
The municipal council allots a consid--
cradle sum of money to the school au-
thorities for sending the most deserv-
ing pupils on holiday tours. In for
mer years the tours have been to
Rouen, Havre, Mont st. Michel. etc.
This year, in order to enable more
children to share in the treat, the
tours will be confined to Versailles,
Fontainebleau and other environs of
Paris.
Statistics regarding the Congre-
gational churches of Connecticut have
just been arranged for publication by
Rev. w. H. Moore, of Hartford. The
total number of churches is 30l. The
membership aggregated $1,000. The
Sunday school enrolment was 54,561,
and the number of families represent
ed was 81, S43. The average member
ship in the 3O1 churches was 191. The
total charities OF these churches for
the year reached the sum OF 1892, 631.-
80, being an average of $6.6 for each