The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-08-15

During the past ten years II. O3i con
verts have been made In the missionary
fields occupied by the Moravian church.
The baptisms reported In the Bap-
list denomination tho past ten years
have averaged s44 for every day Of the
ten years, making in all i.256.375.
1t Is proposed in Chicago 70 engage
matron for every school building In
the city. whose duty 1t shall DO TO look
after the physical wcll-being Of tho
pupils.
Colorado College has secured for IL
department OF modern languages DIR.
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, 900. The
university police and the special grant
to the oxford police absorbed $4,000 OF
this amount The university press Is
very profitable, $4,000 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, IL Is said. stories about
lcprosy in the Chinese quarters have
made the young lady teachers shy about
coming in contact with the Mongolians.
The Lutheran Annual for 1890 gives
The following statistics Of the Lutheran
church in the United States: Fifty
synods, 1912 ministers, 1911 congrega-
tions and l,0S6,0 4s members. An i'm
crease Of about 1000 ministers. 5000
congregations and nearly 200. 900 mem
bers has boon made in the last twenty
five years.
AN admirable provision has been
,.lado by tho magistracy Of Breslau,
which will tend in more ways than one
% the Improvement OF the pupils in the
pablo schools. A botanical school
CARBON 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
Presbyterian Church at CHARTERS, Pa.
was a modest little affair with debt
anl mcagcr attendance. Some OF the
elders. after hard fight. succeeded in
getting permit TO drill an oil-well ON
tho promises. Oil was found in album
dance and recently the little church
sold out bodily to tho Standard Oil
Company Tor $50. 900 cash
Tho University OF Louvain has
aided course OF medical ethics to the
ordinary programme Of professional
study. When similar proposal was
before tho Belgian parliament some
timc ago it was objected by several
quite enough to learn already without
being burdcned with additional sub
jects of study. Other enlightened rep
resentatives Of the People affected to
believe that 'dcontology" (the French
term for medical ethics) must be . mis-
print for ''odontonology." 4
Tho report Of the statistical secre-
/ tary Of the recent Interna tional Sunday
school convention Of Pittsburgh shows
the number Of Sunday-schools los, eoz
in the United States; officers and teach
ers, l, 100. as; scholars, s,5os, ISL; total
in Sunday-schools, 0,179,2Sl. In Canada
Schools, 6,6S9; officers and teachers,
IS, 706; scholars. 52s. 800; total in Sun.
day-schools, 5s4, LOSS. In Newfoundland
and Labrador schools, 314; officers and
teachers, 9. 162; scholars. 2o,Si7; total in
Sunday-schools, 24.979. The footings
show: Schools, 1887; officers and
teachers. 1,17s,301; scholars, 9.l49. 997;
total in Sunday-schools 10, 32s, los. !.
The statistics of the Congregational
churches In Connecticut presents the
following figures: The total member
ship up to January was 5s,305, while
there were 2,6O2 removals for various
causes and 3. POS additions. There were
settled pa stors over Ill churches, SO
had pastors without settlement, So had
ministers who were not pastors, 8 had
licentiates, q layman, Baptist min.
lister, three had Methodist ministers, 8
Presbyterian ministers and Swedish
mission union minister. There were
"a vacant churches. There were 74s
adults and 91s infants baptized There
were $40 Sunday-schools, which gave
e24,0i4 for charities. Christian At Work.
NO SASS FOR HER.