Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-07-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

During 1890 there were built in the
United States $500 churches; ministers
to the number of 1900 were ordained,
and a membership, in all denomina-
tions, 1,000 600 added.
Salaries of Berlin school teachers
have been raised, Hereafter principals
viii receive annually $940, instead of
$685.; male instructors S6l4, instead of
$3.50; female instructors $500, instead OF
$500.
The Southern Baptist convention
has in Mexico 10 missionaries, Is native
helpers, "a stations, "a churches and
7S3 members Last year there were
2l3 baptisms, and the churches con-
tributed 81, 430. 80 to home and foreign
missions.
The Wharton School of Finance and
Economy, as department of the uni
versity of Pennsylvania, has recently
celebrated its tenth anniversary. The
foundation of this school by Joseph
Wharton, of Philadelphia, was the first
attempt to make the college and univer-
sity necessary in the education of busi-
ness men.
"A Boston school paper not long ago
printed actual questions and answers
that took place among pupils between
the ages of fifteen and twenty. In this
list, "Trenton was named as the capital
of Delaware Baltimore as the capital
of Maryland, Charleston of South Caro-
lima, and Kansas City the capital OF
Missouri "-Christian Register.
-Bowdoin college is to send an expe-
dition of students and teachers to Lab.
rador under the direction of Prof Leslie
A. Lee, who a few years ago conducted
similar expedition to the straits OF
Magellan. The object is the collection
of birds, fish and lichens found only in
high latitudes, and the specimens are tc
be added to the Cleveland cabinet in the
college. Brooklyn Citizen.
The South American Missionary
society Church of England), at its an
nual meeting reported receipts 910, 14{
and deficit of el ,05O. The work of the
society has been carried on in the Fall1
land islands, and among the S0O,0 00C
English in the different states of South
America. In close connection with this
is the Colonial and Continental socie
ty, which reports an income of $3.50, ,201
-Narial1i Kozal1i, the Japanese stu
dent who will take part in the Harvard
commencement exercises this year, is
in the divinity school. His early edu
college founded few years ago in his
native country. He than spent three
years in the Pacific theological schoo
In the United States. His thesis is OF
"Agencies Formative of Christian
Thought in Japan" Kozaki intends tC
return to Japan, where he will teacl
and preach.
1t is something that American mis-
sions alone now occupy more than foul
thousand stations in unevangelizet
lands, with two thousand three hundred
and fifty missionaries sent from thi
country and more than ten Thousand
native helpers; that there are at thes,
stations more than twenty-seven hun
dred churches, with nearly two hundred
and thirty-seven thousand communi
cants, of whom twenty-six thousanc
were added last year; and that fou
millions of dollars are contributed an
nually in our country to carry on tn
work. 1t is something, certainly, tina
all Protestant missionary societies hav
now forty-six thousand missionarie
and helpers in the field, ministering t
nearly seven hundred thousand CON
municants and to more than three mil
ions of adherents to Christianity an
eXpending every year at least twelv
millions of dollars in the distant an
costly work.-Dr. Storrs, in S. S. Times