Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-08-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Mrs, Susan Brown has given 100000
TO erect new dormitory to Princeton
University.
in the seven Baptist Theological
seminaries in this country there are 65S
students.
Altogether in the world there are
about 100000, 900 followers of Buddha.
In France alone there are 3d.
-Oberlin has the largest band of stu
dent missionary volunteers which has
been heard from-over one hundred.
Somebody who has been looking up
the matter says that there are now only
five States in the Union in which a
schoolmaster can legally fog a pupil.
Miss Mary Coddington, of New York
City, has given the City Mission $40, 600
for the building and endowment of a
boys clubhouse for the poor boys OF
the city.
There are now eight mission-ships
cruising in the North Sea, each COM
bination of church, chapel, temperance
hall and dispensary World Wide Mis-
sions.
In New Zealand Mormon conven-
tion has just closed its sittings, at which
it was officially reported that there are
5000 Mormons in that colony, and that
500 converts we're made during the past
year.
Mrs. t. w. Lord assistant princi-
pal of the Ladies' Department at Ober-
lin, has given So, 900 toward the erec-
tion of building to be known as Lord
Hall, and intended to furnish board and
rooms for the children of missionaries.
The teachers already in the school
need to see clearly that there is a stand
ard to-day that did not exist when they
entered upon the work, and they can
only sec this through the qualifications
demanded of those who now enter the
ranks journal of Education.
The chief religions of the world
may be classified according to the num-
Der of adherents as follows Chris
tianity, 450, 900, 900; Confucianism, $780,
900, 900; Hinduism, 100, 000 900; Moham-
mechanism, 100000; Fetishism, 150,-
900, 900; Buddhism, 100 600, 900; Spirit
Worship, 5O OOO,0O Shintoism, %, O00,-
900; Jews, S,OOO OOOO; Parsees, l,0Oo,-
900. Total, LAO, OOO 900. Missionary
Review.
With nearly one hundred thousand
Protestant ministers, over one hundred
thousand Protestant churches and
more than twelve million church mem
bers in this country, here is an aggre-
gate Christian force which-under suit
able nurture, culture and discipline
ought to be able to mako headway
toward better things. Advance.
Mrs. Eliza A. Clark, Of Cleveland,
has given $1,000 to the Women's Col
lege of the Western Reserve Univer-
sty Half will be used as an endow-
ment and half to erect the Clark Hall
Of Liberal Arts. Mrs Clark is the
widow of the late James +. Clark, who
| died in Cleveland some time ago. Mr..
Clark was born in Cooperstown, N. Y,
in 1909. He was the son of the niece of
the celebrated Jonathan Trumbull, of
Connecticut, who lives in history as
"Brother Jonathan"
The philosophy of our form of civil
ization and progress demands education
that can be readily and effectively APP
piled to the solution of everyday prob
lens and the manipulation of ordinary
enterprises. When our young men and
young women get their diplomas they
should be qualified to render intelligent
and useful service in different fields OF
employment without waiting to learn
how to adapt their knowledge to the
prevailing conditions. To be n gradu'
ate should imply fitness for the work
that society provides, and not simply Q
scholastic equipment that is, useless
outside of the recitation room.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat