Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-04-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The London Religious Tract So
ciety last year issued 100000 publica-
lions.
last year over $4,000 in eSapgelistic
work, with large results, and will raise
large sum this year.
The sum of the requests made by
Mrs Eleanor w. ]. Baker, wife of the
great chocolate manufacturer, to edu-
cational and charitable institutions was
100000.
According to DIR. w. Fl. Roberts,
American statistical secretary of the
Presbyterian Alliance, the Presbyterian
and Reformed denominations through
out the world have 20, 265, 500 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 Ice
landic.
I'm Africa the number of mission
aries exceed 500, and the number OF
converts 400, 900, increasing by about
$4,000 a year. During the past five
years Africa has furnished more than
SOV maj -
Yearly returns of the Welsh Cal
vinists for 1890 show a commandments
roll of 1872, 354, an increase during the
last ten years of A., 1000. This includes
the Welsh churches in London, Liver
pool, Manchester and other parts of
England.
OF the 47s ministers who left the
Established church of Scotland at the
disruption, forty-two are still living in
Switzerland, while a 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 $14,sOO. This
was not because it contained any more
truth than any other copy, but because
it was printed by Gutenberg in lab
the first complete book ever printed
with movable type.
The grandson and last descendant
of the great educator, Pestalozzi, died
recently in Zurich. This was Maj. Carl
Pestalozzi. born in 1925, and for a num-
Der of years professor in the polytech-
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 a sum of 200,-
900 marks, besides securing for it site
valued from 20, 200 to $4,000 marks. The
aforementioned sum the emperor did not
give himself entirely, but only in part,
the rest having been secured through
his example and influence from wealthy
men in Berlin.
Prof. Dorner, son of the late ia
nous teacher in the University of Ber-
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 a number of years was
professor in the practical theological
seminary at Wittenberg. He has writ
ten two important works, one the
Church Father st. Augustine, and one
on Church and the Kingdom of God.