Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-09-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The number of Baptist Sunday.
schools in North Carolina is in excess OF
any other state, aggregating 1,469
The teachers and school superin-
tendents of the United States receive
$50. 900, 900 annually. This amount in
creases s2,5OO,OOO each year, or three
and half per cent.
The Grand River Congregational
church on the Standing Rock Indian
reservation. North Dakota, lately re-
ceived twenty-seven adult members.
Among them was One Bull, son of the
late Sitting Bull.
The congregational Association of
Chicago numbers so churches and 113
ministers, with II, 93S church members.
The amount contributed last year for
home expenses was S2i9,336, while the
sum raised for benevolent objects
reached s135, 965.
The number of American students
in Berlin this season is unusually great.
At the university alone the number is
aOS out of a total of 5,547. Then there
are many more than this attending pri-
vate clinics, studying Kochs methods,
acquiring the German language, or pur-
suing studies in art and music.
Commander Hannah Ouchterlong,
the Swedish Salvation Army officer,
who has just arrived in this country, IS
described as "keen, sharp-eyed little
woman, who can make a pretty good
talk in English, but who is wonder in
Swedish, and has built up the army in
Sweden at an absolutely astounding
rate"
"A correspondent of the American
Israelite has found. while examining
the catalogue of a large eastern col
lege" (the name of which is not given).
that 10 per cent of the students there
are Jews, and that last year the Jewish
students secured, by competitive tests,
80 per cent of the honors of that were
awarded.
The Christian Union lays it down
as fact that deteriorated quality of
young men are going into the ministry
nowadays. 1t doesn't attempt to &C
count for it, but leaves the reasons to
be inferred. Probably the chief one is
that the salaries paid to clergymen are
not UP to those paid to similar talent in
other professions.
Requests for religious, educational
and charitable purposes under one hun
dred and twenty of the wills reported
in this country last year amounted to
about s., 200, 900. The amount of char
liable requests and gifts in England liz
1891, exclusive of Baron Hirsch's bene-
factions, is estimated at about SIS, 000,-
900. as against S11, 800, 900 in 1S90.-Con-
gregationalist.
The Northwestern university at
Evanston, H., has, within few months,
received large additions to its available
funds, including $50, 900 for a prepare
tory school; $4,000 for library; $780,
600 for school of technology, in addi-
ton to the 100000 from the Fayer-
weather estate for the same purpose,
and $50, 900 to endow a professorship in
the medical college.
The Methodist Episcopal general
conference at Omaha decided that pas
toral relations shall not be extended by
abolishing the present time limits of
five years. The vote disclosed the fact
that 1862 delegates favored abolition of
the limit, while 29S were recorded in
opposition. Contest over this question
is not ended, but many years will
elapse before the opponents of itineracy
succeed.
The Episcopal church in England
has "a bishops and $4,000 other clergy
men; in the United States, 81 bishops
and $500 clergymen; in Ireland, 10
bishops and 1,SO7 other clergymen, and
in Canada, "a bishops and 1900 other
clergymen; in Asia, IS bishops and 713
other clergymen; in Africa, IL bishops
and $50 other clergymen; in Australia,
81 bishops and 269 other clergymen, and
in Scotland, II bishops and $50 other
clergymen; in scattered dioceses, bish-
ops and 100 other clergymen-a grand
total of 1S9 bishops and S2,729 other
clarOvrnan