St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-03-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The United Society Of Christian
Endeavor has . membership Of ass. 900.
-Of S6s colleges in this country ga
are supported by religious denomina-
tions.
F-The Protestant Episcopal church
has III congregations in New York and
Brooklyn. re
The Paris City Council has advised
parents not to have their daughters
take normal course for years TO come.
The profession Is more than over
crowded. In recent months hfty-four
places were vacant, but there were ap-
plications from 6,44l persons, or 11s for
each position.-N. Y. Independent
According to the Living Church Al.
manac for 1891, the Protestant Episcopal
church has 4,ls3 clergy, 100 candidates
for orders, :,SS0 parishes and missions,
and sos, 2oe communicates. The num-
Der of baptisms last year was 81 ,665, of
which nearly 1900 were of infants.
The contributions for the year are Sl2,.
75l, ,767.
During the past fifteen years the
Cincinnati Bsptists have sdded seven
new churches to the number then exist
ing, the total number being now twen-
ty-six; the total membership has risen
from 2, S44 to 4, 100. and the total amount
of benevolent contributions raised last
year is four-fold what it was fifteen
years ago.
"A Morsvian missionary and his
wife have been labOring for thirty
years at . station in the mountains at
Thibet, with the nearest post-Office
fourteen days distant, and reached only
BY crossing the high passes of the Him
alayas and forling dangerous streams.
They have not seen . European for ten
yearx-Boston Journal.
Less than one hundred years ago
the first Protestant foreign missionary
society was organized. Now there are
more than 200 such societies. These
have force of more than 1000 mission
aries and assistant missionaries, and
more than $1,000 native helpers, of
whom 3, 900 are ordained. Thirty years
ago there was not . w0man's foreign
missionary society in America. Now
there are 80. with q, 900 auxiliaries.
The Y. NJ. c. A. is spreading all
over the world. There are now formed
upward Of 1000 associations, and of
these 1000 are in Papal lands. and
nearly 500 in Mohammedan countries.
There are 81 in India and Ceylon, Il in
Turkey, 8 in Syria, II in Africa, 5 in
China, in Persia and 800 in Japan.
There are going to be openings inevery
quarter for the young men who have
fitness for secretaries and evangelists in
with these associations.
-Methodism in this country has over
four and half million members, led by
over $1,000 preachers; Baptists nearly
four million followers, led BY over u, 600
Presbyterianism . million
and q half, led by ministry of l,s0o;
Lutherans, 1,09S, 900. headed by over
I, 200 preachers, besides host of smaller
denominations, and = band of Sabbath
school scholars numbering over ., ,000. 900.
In the whole country there Is i gain to
The Christian churches the past year of
|, ,Os9, ,S53 members, 1867 ministers and
5, 494 churches.
The Minister Of Public Education Of
The French Republic at the discussion
of the school budget was honest enough
10 confess that the abolition Of religious
in the high schools and col.
legcs was 50 injurious to the interests
II the state and depopulated these
schools in such an alarming manner,
hat the teachers of religion had to be
The same thing was re-
ported of the lower public schools
Since the enforcement Of the radical
school laws the public schools have lost
two-thiris of their pupils, who are sent
by their parents to the free church.
schools. a.