Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-08-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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verts have been made in the missionary
fields occupied by the Moravian church.
The baptisms reported in the Bap'
tist denomination the past ten years
have averaged 344 for every day of the
ten years, making in all 1,256, 375.
1t is proposed in Chicago to engage
matron for every school building in
the city, whose duty it shall be to look
after the physical well-being of the
pupils.
Colorado College has secured for its
department of modern languages DR..
Sylvester Primer, graduate of Harvard
and editor of Minna Won Barnhelm and
other volumes.
The income of the University of
Oxford last year was 1881, 000 The
university police and the special grant
to the Oxford police absorbed $10 600 of
this amount The university press is
very profitable, S75, 600 having been
turned over to the university last year.
"A Presbyterian church in Philadel-
phia, which has maintained the largest
Sunday-school for Chinese in the city,
has decided to give up teaching these
people, because, it is said, stories about
leprosy in the Chinese quarters have
made the young lady teachers shy about
coming in contact with the Mongolians.
The Lutheran Annual for 1890 gives
ohe following statistics of the Lutheran
church in the United States: Fifty
synods, 1912 ministers, 1911 congrega-
tions and 1,0S6, O4S members. An in
crease of about 1000 ministers, 5000
congrcga tions and nearly 200, 900 men,
bers has been made in the last twenty
ilvo years.
An admirable provision has been
nado by tho magistracy of Breslau,
@hich will tend in more ways than one
to the improvement of the pupils in the
public schools. A botanical school
gardon had been instituted for the
regular supply of plants to the schools
of the place, and for enabling teachers
to make observations on the spot with
their pupils.
Some time ago the Forest Grove
Prcsby byterian Church at CHARTERS, Pa,
was a modest little affair with debt
and meager attendance. Some of the
elders, after hard fight, succeeded in
getting permit to drill an oil-well on
the promises. Oil was found in abun-
dance and recently the little church
sold out bodily to tho Standard Oil
Company for SS2, 900 cash.
Tho University of Louvain has
added o course of medical ethics to the
ordinary programme of professional
study. When similar proposal was
before the Belgian parliament some
time ago it was objected by several
deputies that medical students had
quite enough TO learn already without
being burdened with additional sub
jccts of study. Other enlightened rep
resentatives Of the People affected to
believe that 'deontology" (the French
term for medical ethics) must be mis-.
print for ''odontonology."
The report of the statistical secre.
tary of the recent International Sunday.
school convention of Pittsburgh shows
the number of Sunday-schools, 1O5, S94
in the United States; officers and teach
ers, /, 1870, 4SS; scholars, S,59S, 1851; total
in Sunday-schools, 9,179,2S4. In Canada
Schools, 6,6S9; officers and teachers,
55,7O6; scholars, 52S, 329; total in Sun
day-schools, 5S4, 035. In Newfoundland
and Labrador schools, 314; officers and
teachers, 2,162; scholars, 22,Sl7; total in
Sunday schools, "a, $40. The footings
show: Schools, 1887; officers and
teachers, LIS, 30l; scholars, 9,149 997
total in Sunday-schools, 10,32S, 29S.
The statistics of the Congregations
churches in Connecticut presents the
following figures; The total member
ship up to January was 5S,305, while
there were 2,602 removals for various
causes and s. EOS additions. There were
settled pastors over Ill churches, s;
had pastors without settlement, So haC
ministers who were not pastors, hat
licentiates l layman, 1 Baptist min
lister, three had Methodist ministers,
Presbyterian ministers and l Swedish
mission union minister. There wert
"a vacant churches. There were "a
adults and 913 infants baptized. Their,
were 240 Sunday-schools, which gav'
S24, 9l4 for charities Christian at Work