DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-08-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The last census of New Zealand re-
veals the interesting fact of pro-
fession of religion on the part of no
less than 95 per cent. of the whole popu.
| lation-
According to the summary pre-.
sented to the general assembly at Sara
toga, the Presbyterian church increased
its membership last year by more than
| 103, 900.
Northwestern University at Evans
ton, H., has property to the net amount
of 81, $50, 900. Over four hundred stu
dents have been enrolled during the
past year.
Harvard University is to provide
next year for systematic course of
| lectures on the laws, the literature, the
customs, the life OF the Hebrew people;
this is to say, a course Of lectures on
the Bible.
"A church was put up for sale the
other day by the French colony OF
Madrid. All the church decorations,
such as altar cloths, priests robes, and
gold and silver vessels, were included
in the sale.
The University Of Pennsylvania is
about to establish school Of architect
ure. We presume it will be better
than any thing of the kind now existing
in this country, for if it is not there can
be no reason for starting it,
Christian Endeavor societies exist
in every State and Territory in the
Union, and in every English-speaking
land in the world. In all there are
II, O13 societies with 660, 900 members,
| gain of 8, 341 societies and 1S5, 900 mem
bers in eleven months.
In England, out Of 1000 cortifcat-
ed masters in elementary schools last
| year, 5000 received more than $500
year, 1,500 between $1,000 and S., 900.
Many have residences provided. OF TO-
| 900 certificated ladies, 4, 600 receive $500.
Twenty-eight thousand receive less
than $500; 18,O 900 less than S375 year,
and $4,000 about $3.50 year.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety, during the eighty-one years of its
history, issued from its London depos-
itory alone $1,000, 900 complete copies Of
the Bible, SO, 600, 900 Testaments and
nearly -, ,OO0, 600 portions of the Bible;
total of $4,000, 600, or nearly 1000 900
year, or enough to furnish every
twentieth inhab abitant of the globe.
The University Of Berlin, with its
9oo s oaTgess St9dents f8a that M 81 2hs
Countess Bose, is only $50, OOo Never
theless, it is the seat of the highest
German learning, and claims to have
the ablest corps of instructors of all
the worlds schools, ols,-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The University of Trinity College,
Toronto, has made considerable sem
sation in England by claiming the right
by its charter to grant degrees in all
parts of the British empire, There Is
an indignant protestin the old country,
and a demand that if the Toronto Uni
yersitv has a shadow of right to such
power it should be deprived Of it i'm
mediately.
The Presbyterians of the United
Presbyterian church are voting on two
overtures one allowing theological
students to be licensed at the end Of the
second year, and the other refusing
licensure to any student and installa-
ton 10 any elder who uses tobacco in
any form. 1t is said that the former
overture has been answered over
whelmingly in the affirmative, and that
the presbyterics are nearly evenly d.
vided in regard to the second question
Christian at Work.