The Negro world., 1892-07-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Eighteen Of the London theaters
are occupied for divine service on Sum
day evenings
I'm 1850 the public-sehool establish
ment of New York state cost less than
1000, 900. Last year it cost $4,000, 900.
The woman's Medical college of
Chicago has become department of the
Northwestern university, of Evanston,
Ill.
The revised German Bible has been
completed. For nearly thirty years
critics and scholars have been at work
on it.
teachers and school superin-
tendents of the United States receive
$s0, ,000, 900 annually. This amount in
ereases g., 100000 each year, or 3 = per
cent.
DR.. J. NJ Worrall has been inaugu-
rated as professor of ecclesiastical his.
tory and church government in the
Presbyterian Theological seminary in
Danville. KY
bishop Thoburn's report ON mission
work in India, at the Methodist confer
EAiNG III OAllattfis HllOhS busbuu
have been added to the church in the
past four years.
Mr.. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, has
purchased for $50, 600 a building in the
Monumental City which he has pre-
sented to the Maryland academy of
sciences as its home
Cotton is now grown in Turkestan
md cha p,CCiaVN v,,-s,,.s.R.a.s Nv.,I
Asia, the quantity produced being 81
650,000 pounds, or say $4,000 bales, In
1883, and 50, 500, 900 pounds in 1889
The Prosestant Christians of Japan
number over 1000, organized over zoo
churches; with about 13s ordained
Japanese ministers, and nearly 500 Japa-
nese evangelists and workers, and with
nearly 400 men 'training In theological
schools. Illustrated Christian Weekly.
The most famous religious relic,
says a church paper, is the ''Tron Crown"
which was worshiped in the middle
ages. The tradition is that it was made
from the nails which were driven
through the hands of Jesus at the time
of the crueifxion. This celebrated relic
is now in Naples among the state jew
els.
The statistics of the Presbyterian
missions in Siam and Laos, as recently
reported. are as fellows: Ordained mis-
sionaries, IA; medical missionaries, 4;
single lady missionaries, 8; native
preachers, teachers, etc, "a; number of
churches, 10; communicates, lib; mum.
ber added last year, $50; boys in board
ing-schools, POS; girls in boarding.
schools, 146; day-school pupils, $50.
For the foreign mission work Of the
year ending April 80. 1892, the last gem
eral assembly of the United Presby-
terian church appropriated si15.OO
The total receipts of the board during
the year have been STA, 0s6 So Appro-
priations and receipts were very nearly
matched. The Woman's board con.
tributed TO foreign missions Sl4,s7
The total number of members in the
United Presbyterian church, 1891, was
106, 1856; in 1892, 109,61s.
The Salvation Army report for 1891
is as follows: In the service of the In
ternational Headquarters staff, LILO
officers are returned; in the British Isles
there are 5,5s7 corps; France and Swift
zerland, f45; Belgium, Al; Holland, 1856;
Germany, IS; Denmark, 1870; Sweden.
sos; Norway, 231, Canada and New
foundland, l,044; United States, l,293;
Argentine Republic, 81; South Africa,
1875; India and Ceylon, SO; Australia,
t,16S; New Zealand, 26s; Finland, "a;
Italy, 2t. Total for 1891. 10, s93 corps,
showing an increase Of 1 1.O15 corps.