The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The London Religious Tract So
ciety last year issued 1900, 900 publica-
tions.
The Synod of Kentucky expended
last year over $4,000 in evangelistic
work, with large results, and will raise
large sum this year.
The sum of the requests made by
Mrs. Eleanor w. J. Baker, wife of the
great chocolate manufacturer, to edu-
cational and charitable institutions was
81, 100000.
according to DR.. w. II. Roberts,
American statistical secretary Of the
Presbyterian Alliance, the Presbyterian
and Reformed denominations through
out the world have 20. 265, 800 adherents.
The Icelandic Lutheran congrega-
ton in Manitoba and the northwestern
states recently celebrated the three
hundred and fiftieth anniversary OF the
translation of the Scriptures into lee
landic.
In Africa the number of mission
aries exceed 500, and the number OF
converts 400, 900, increasing by about
$4,000 year. During the past five
years Africa has furnished more than
zoo martyrs. Union.
Yearly returns of the Welsh CAL
vinists for 1890 show a communicates
roll Of 49,, 354, IN increase during the
last ten years of $1,000. This includes
the Welsh churches in London, Liver
pool, Manchester and other parts Of
England.
of the 41s ministers who left the
Established church of Scotland at the
disruption, forty-two are still living in
Switzerland, while few others are liv-
ing in other countries. DIR. Beth, who
was ordained sixty-eight years ago, is
one Of them.
"A copy of the Bible was sold in New
York the other day for sl4.so0. This
was not because it contained any more
truth than any other copy, but because
it was printed by Gutenberg in l455-
the first complete book ever printed
with movable type.
The grandson ana last descendant
Of the great educator. Pestalozzi, died
recently in Zurich. This was Maj. Carl
pestalozzi. born in 1926, and for num-
Der of years professor in the polytcch-
meal institute in Zurich. For a long
time he was president Of the Zurich
Pestalozzi endowment for the education
Of neglected children.
The executive committee of the
board of trustees of Cornell university
has completed the formation Of the staff
for the new Susan Linn Sage school of
philosophy. The new school will begin
instruction on the first day OF the next
academic year. The trustees and the
dean expect to make this one of the
most important departments in the uni
versity and the most complete OF its
kind in America.
The City Mission society OF Berlin,
Is fortunate in having a liberal friend
in the person of the emperor. For the
new church in the part of the city called
'Moabit" he has granted sum of 200,-
900 marks, besides securing for it a site
valued from &c, ZOO to $4,000 marks. The
Aforementioned sum the emperor did not
give himself entirely, but only in part,
the rest having been secured through
Ills tAdHlpie anu HHucHCc from "cdllhy
men in Berlin.
Prof. Dorner. Il son of the late IA
nous teacher in the University of Bcr-
lin. has been appointed full professor in
konigsburg. His chair is the same as
that held by his father-namely, sys-
tematic theology. DIR. Dorner was born
in 1910, and for number of years was
professor in the practical theological
seminary at Wittenberg. lie has writ
ten two important works, one the
Church Father st. Augustine, and one
OIL Church and the Kingdom of God.