Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

BY the new rules just issued no one
Who owns to more than twenty-three
years is eligible for admission as stu
dent of the Royal Academy schools.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South has
voted to give laymen moro voice in the
councils of the church.
AT the late session of the United
Presbyterian church at Albany, Ore,
vote was taken on the question of using
tobacco, and the opposition carried by
one vote.
"A monthly paper called the Chinese
Advocate has been started in New York
in the interest of Chinese Sunday
schools. The editor is Yam Phon Lee,
a native of China and graduate Of Yale.
School teachers in Brooklyn can
now lose fifteen days year through
sickness without having any thing de
Quoted from their salaries, the board Of
education having decided to that effect.
The first theological school of the
country, Bangor Theological Semi,
nary" was chartered in 1914 and opened
in 1915. The last, "The Common School
of Theology" located at Atlanta, Ca,
was chartered in 1888.
The proceedings of the seventeenth
annual convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Illinois fill a
hundred pages. There are in the State
seventy-iive associations, and nine OF
them have buildings worth $685. 600.
Building funds in hand amount to S7S,-
962.
There are in the United States 40
law schools, with 5000 students; 100
medical institutions, with II, 200 in at
tendance, and 1873 theological semina-
ries with 6,512 students in preparation
for the ministry. Sixty-four of the the
ological seminaries have an endowment
of $11, 42S, ,56S, with an annual income Of
S55S,6F.
According to the newest edition of
the Papal Year Book, Leo XIII. is the
263d Pope, is in the twelfth year OF his
reign, and is eighty years of age. His
| COunNll vi huN loClo NOlloAobo VI oiAb1 lOul
Cardinals. OF these sixteen were ap-
pointed by Plus TX. and forty-eight
were selected by himself. There are
six vacancies
For some years there have been only
six Congregational churches in New
York City, three of which, the Broad
way Tabernacle, the Pilgrim and the
Central, are strong churches. A seventh
church has recently been organized
called the Congregational Church Of
North New York. 1t owns a new edi-
flee, and has settled on an able pastor
Mrs. Almira S. Steele established,
as work of faith, the Steele Orphan
age at Chattanooga five years ago, dur
ing which time 2S6 colored homeless lit
tie ones have been cared for. Many of
these have graduated, at the age of fiji.
teen, into industrial schools. She has
begun similar orphanage at Atlanta.
She also has the management of the
Steele High School at McNeills. S. c.,
and is responsible for all its expenses.
The Record of the Free Church of
Scotland makes the statement that
there are forty-seven Protestant Jewish
missionary societies in the world, en-
ploying 377 missionaries among the
Jews, and spending about half-mill-
ion dollars annually There is, there
fore, about one missionary for every H.
900 Jews, inasmuch as their number is
$500, 900. 1t is said that so, 900 copies Of
Delitzsch's Hebrew New Testament
nave been distributed in Eastern Europe
and Siberia, while of Salkinson's He
brew New Testament two editions OF
100000 have appeared. 1t has been es.
timated that fully 100000 Jews have,
during the century, been brought to the
Church of Christ