The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-12-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


AS the delegates of the ecumenical
council left the church after the closing
session each member was presented by
Mrs. Bishop Newman with q spray Of
the ivy that covers the outside Of the
church. the original root Of which was
brought from Wurtemburg. whore Mar.
Elm Luther did such noble work.
There IL said TO be Q small religious
sect In this town the members of which
call themselves mates" II IL crm-
posed Of men and women who are
married by ''spiritA" Every quarrel
or domestic problem Is settled by the
same agency. the matter being stated
to the spirits In an open meeting Most
Of the members are SwedeA-N. Y.
Tribune.
The spiritual well-being Of the Chi.
nese in America Is not forgotten. In
Boston, as far back as 1875, q school vas
opened for their benefit. and the work
has grown until eight large ones are
found; In them at least 800 of the 1000
Cinnamon receive instruction. and 20
have been received into the Boston
churches In return one school for
three years has given annually SIPS to
support q missionary in Hong Kong. and
recently an Offering of STA was given to
maintain native preacher in that Same
city.
Mrs Elizabeth Dean, of EPSON,
England, who is widely known in con-
nection with Miss Kate Marsden's work
for lepers, has given TO Grace Episco-
pal church at Elizabeth. n. j.. fifty city
lots, worth fifty thousand dollars, to Be
used for church and charitable pur-
poses The lots are centrally located
in a crowded portion Of the city. and
twenty are TO be used ~ recreation and
play grounds for children and the rest
as sites for mission-halls, churches and
asylums. the building of which Mrs
Dean leaves to generous Americans
In the year 1895. less than sixteen
years after the landing Of the Pilgrims
ut Plymouth, the general court of the
colooy of Massachusetts bay voted to
give the sum of -four hundred pounds
toward . school or college," one-half to
be paid the following year, and the re-
mainder when the work was done.
Preliminary steps toward the establish
ment of q college at Newtown latter
ward Cambridge were taken the fol-
lowing year. In 1888, John Harvard,
q non-conforming clergyman Of En-
gland, who had been in the colony
about year, left at his death half of
his whole property and his entire lib
rary (about three hundred volumes) to
the institution
A fair index to the hold which COM
mon schools have upon a country is
furnished by the number Of analpha-
bets among the recruits in the various
armies OF Europe. The honor of lead
ing all the rest in this respect belongs
TO Sweden, where only 8 out of every
/, 200 recruits can neither read nor write.
In Denmark the number Is 4; In Ger
many 9 lowing almost entirely to the
Polish districts Of eastern Prussia, Prus-
sia's quota alone being on this account
pa; in Switzerland IS. In other coun-
tries the proportion is much larger than
In these four; Great Britain having so
analphabets in each 1000 soldiers: the
Netherlands, IS; France, lo4; Belgium.
100; Austria, $50; Hungary, $50; Greece
and Spain, each 400; Italy, ga; Russia,
7ls; Servia, T93. The percentage in En-
gland Is not surprising when it is re-
membered that the Indian troops arc
included In the total. II is an impor.
tant fact in the history Of modern civil
ization that the Protestant countries
are the great bulwarlS Of popular edu-
cation.