Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The King of Siam has given royal
palace, together with extensive grounds
and buildings, for the use of the Presby-
terian Mission.
Iowa is the banner State for women
educators. Fourteen of the State SUI
perintendents are women, and fc ifths
of the teachers are women.
By recent victory of the Catholic
center in the Reichstag all Catholic
students of theology in Germany are
now exempt from military service.
Two hundred young Hindoo women
are studying medicine in the medical
schools in India, and some of them excel
the male students in application and,
skill.
The State Board OF Education Of
Wisconsin will enforce the Bennett law,
which provides that children must at
| tend school not less than twelve weeks
in each year in a school in which the
English language is taught
Last year, it is stated, the Southern
States paid no less than SIS, 900, 900 for
the education of the children and youth
of both races; not less than So, 900, 900 of
which was for the children of people
who twenty-five years ago were held in
slavery.
! Two hundred years have wrought
no little change in the angle of theo-.
logical vision throughout all the denom-
inations, not excepting the Roman
Catholic. Even the Greek Church has.
felt upon its cheek of bronze the breath
of progress and is not quite so bigoted
as it was once.-Chicage Inter Ocean.
1t seems to be the idea of some Sun
day-school teachers, remarks a religious
paper, that they must use all the helps
within their reach, and treat impartially
every subject suggested by the text.
That is not the intention of the makers
of lesson helps. Wise teachers have
| learned the art of selection as well as of
! application.
| The Book Concerns of the Metho-
dist Church appropriated this year from
the current income $4,000, and $50, 900
| additional from the capital as a jubilee
! Offering in view of the wonderful pros
perity which attended the business of
the Concerns-S6O, 900 of this being paid
/ by the house in New York, and $40, 900
| by the Western Book Concern in Cincin-
natl.
The twenty-five missionary aSsocla-
tions in the United States managed by
women, and whose support comes from
women, support Isl missionaries, last
year contributed S1,O3s, 233, and since
! their organization have contributed S10,-
335,114 The forces of Great Britain,
Continental Europe and the United
| States have an annual income of S9,306,-
996, man and equip $3.50 stations, sup
port 5,431 missionaries, have mission
| churches that number 5Ss, ,964 communi-
| cants and 1,s75, ,655 adherents.
How many grown persons would get
| through with the sample task reported
| to the meeting of the principals of the
school department as an evenings work
for a child of, say, thirteen years? 1t
contains exercises in no less than eight
studies, involving original composition,
| the memorizing of several different sub
| jects, mathematical reasoning and APP
plication of rules, grammatical anal
| ysis, study of rhetorical expression,
and exercise in artistic de-
| sign and manual skill. A child is,
expected to do this and enjoy sound
sleep and steady nerves.-San Francisco
Rulletin