Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-04-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Dartmouth College is to receive
s4O,O 900 through the will of the late Rev.
Cyrus w. Wallace, d. D., OF Manches-
ter, N. II.
AT recent meeting Of the presby-
terry of Chickasaw the sermon was
preached by full-blooded Kiowa Indi-
an, Joshua Given.
One Episcopal church in San Fran
cisco is said to have membership of
SIS, 900, 900, and yet the missionary fund
of the diocese is in debt nearly $500.
The German Methodists have
churches in New York, IL in Chicago, 5
in Cincinnati, 5 in Milwaukee, in Buff
falo, in st. Louis, in Brooklyn, in
Philadelphia The Beacon.
"A Lilliputian finger prayer-book
has been issued by the Oxford Univer-
sity Press 1t is only three and half
inches long and one inch broad, weighs
three-quarters of an ounce and contains
go pages.
Mr.. Jacob Fl. Schiff, of New York,
has made gift of $4,000 to Harvard
University for the establishment Of
museum for the study of the literature,
history and remains Of the Semitic peo-
Piles.
The United States has S61 colleges,
with A, 442 instructors and 70,0 stu
dents; 1859 institutions for the higher
education of women, with 1854 instruct
ors; 90 schools of science, 145 schools OF
theology and so of law.
Along tho valley Of the Nile from
Alexandria to the first cataract are
20 mission stations and 20 Sunday
schools, numbering 4017 scholars, while
the day and boarding-schools have over
5000 pupils. Religious Herald.
I'm the statistics of the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States
there is an increase In the number of
Sunday-school scholars for the year
1SsS-s9 amounting to nearly $4,000,
nearly a quarter of the increase being
in the diocese Of Pennsylvania.
There is only one Methodist theo-
logical seminary among the $50, 900, 900
Of India 1t was founded in 1872 by the
gift of $40, 900 from Rev. d. w. Thomas,
Of the North India conference. 1t has
SO far turned out 165 native missionaries
and u44 Christian teachers. - Western
Christian Advocate.
More than sixty years ago the
first churches OF Disciples OF Christ
were planted in Ohio. New churches
have been established annually to the
present date, SO that the whole number
reaches ACT churches, with a member
ship of Al, 500. The Ohio Christian Mis-
sionary Society has assisted in planting
200 churches.
AT Barangar, Calcutta, a school for
girls has been conducted by Mr.. and
Mrs. Sasipada Banerjee for more than
twenty-five years 1t is now proposed to
add boarding department for the pur-
pose of training young women, and es-
pecially Hindu widows, as teachers, and
thereby to do for this unfortunate class
in Bengal what Ramabai is doing for
them at Bombay.
Speaking before a meeting of the
Methodist ministers, Bishop Fowler
told of new heather temple in the
northern part of Japan. 1t is of enor-
nous size, ana the timbers were hauled
to and placed in their present position
by ropes made from the hair of the
women OF the province An edict went
forth calling for the long hair of the
women, and enough was obtained to
make two monster ropes-one seventeen
inches in circumference and fourteen
hundred feet long, and the other ten to
eleven inches around and two thousand
feet long Louis Republic.