Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-12-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodists are jubilant over
the fact that their missionary society is
free from debt for the first time in
twenty-five years.
Rigid examination of the applicants
for certificates to teach insWillis, Tex,
has resulted in the idleness of half the
schools of the county.
Railway schools for children of
railway employees are maintained by
the railway companies in India, at a
very small expense to the pupils.
"A census of church goers in Liver
pool shows falling off in ten years,
though churches providing $4,000 new
sittings have been built in that time.
There is at Baltimore, Ireland, a
fishing school where boys receive in
struction in all branches of a sea fisher
mans work, and in such allied indus
tries as net-maSing, boat building
cooperage and sail-making.
Spencer Trask, of Brooklyn, gives
to Princeton $4,000, the interest upon
which is to be used in securing at
Princeton the presence of men distin-
guished in art and letters. Sir Edwin
Arnold will inaugurate the series of
lectures.
"A project for the introduction of a
university course in Boston's public
school system is before the Boston
board of aldermen. 1t provides that
the course shall be free to such scholars
as exhibit the necessary proficiency,
and that all the expense of it shall be
borne by the city. 1t is not unlike edu-
cational schemes that exist in France
and Germany.
The Modern Language club is per-
haps the youngest, but by no means the
least, important organization at Yale.
1t was formed through the efforts of
Prof. Gruener, and has for it's OBJ
ject the convention of persons inter-
ested in the study of modern languages.
Yale men and male residents of New
Haven interested in such work are
eligible to membership.
Bishop Brooks, of Massachusetts,
it appears, has had more predecessors
than any other bishop in America 1t
is said that the Catholic Bishop Eric, of
Greenland, resigned his see in that
country in the year 1921 to come to
the Morse settlement at Boston and
minister to the people, who were Cath
olics, and of considerable mum Der. Other
priests and missionaries followed him
long before Christopher Columbus saw
America.
According to the Journal of the pro-
ceedings of the Thirteenth general
council of the Reformed Episcopal
church, recently issued by Mr.. Charles
D. Kellogg, it's efficient secre tary, the
present status of the church is: Par
shes and missions, Ill; communicates,
1900; bishops and clergy, 115; Sunday
school teachers and scholars, II, $50;
Sunday-school contributions, $40, 467;
total contributions for one year, $780,
1877; total value of property and endow-
ments, $1,954,712
Prince Damrong, the brother of the
king of Siam, who is at present in Paris,
says he thinks the missionaries in his
country put the cart before the horse.
They begin, he says, by preaching that
all the Siamese know and all their be-
lief in buddhism are entirely false, and
that the only truth is the faith which
they profound. Then, after pre- judicing
the people against them in this way,
they establish schools and do some good
work. He thinks they ought to begin
by opening schools and performing
other helpful service which the people
can appreciate, and then enlighten the
public as to their tenets; and while ex-
planning their faith they should not ut
tcrly condemn buddhism, but should
teach what is good in Christianity with
out condemning what is good in the
native faith