The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-05-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The total income of the church Of
England is about 81, 600, 900 week.
Twenty England and American
women are studying at the university
in Leipsic.
Nine Boston churches are without
pastors, one of which has been seeking
IN vain for one for three years.
The Universalist church in Glasgow
is the only regularly organized church
in Great Britain that has a woman for
Its fully-accredited pastor.
The followers of the Shintonist re-
ligion in Japan number about 1000, 900
souls and have about 100000 temples,
four or five of which are presided over
by one minister, who also teaches in the
Japanese grammar schools. &
Next to the Moravians tie United
Presby of Scotland are the mis-
sionary church. Their $40 churches,
with 1S5, 900 members, contributed S4OO..
900 last year, and the gain of converts
was 600 during the year.-Illustrated
Christian Weekly.
In the Moody Bible institute, Chi.
cago, the eighty-three young men who
are students represent eleven denomi.
nations and fourteen states. besides
twenty six from England and Canada.
And there are ffty-six women from
seventeen states.
The Salvation Army has secured
strong foothold in Buenos Ayres. Dur.
ing the financial troubles it was able to
help thousands of men thrown out OF
work to food and shelter It has
thriving farm colony, and is training
Spanish-speaking cadets Missionary
Review.
Women of the south are agitatina
the question of schools of high grade
and possibly colleges for their daugh
ters A suggestion has been made that
monument to the memory of women
who won noble name in the civil war
by deeds of self-sacrlfce, take the form
of a college for women, and that Mrs.
Jefferson Davis be made president fo,
life.
The United States general conven.
ton of Universalists has recently u.s.
sued its annual statement of the condi
tion of the church as follows: Number
of parishes, 947; number of ministers
735; number of families, 42, ,OS9; church
membership, 41,177; Sunday school
membership, 56,11O; property, less debt
81, ,96s,34S; expenses and contributions,
81, ,19s,s54. L.
Amherst college has 3s6 undergrad
uate students. of whom 234 are mem
bers of churches. Over fifty of the stu
dents are looking forward to the min
istry. Last year thirty-nine graduates
We're attending Congregational theolog.
ical schools, a larger number by seven.
teen than that furnished by any other
institution represented A movement
has been started to support an alumnus
on the missionary field, and the treas.
urer has already in hand S7O3 for this
purpose.
A western university, the universi.
ty OF Kansas, which President Eliot OF
Harvard ranks second only to the
Michigan university among the great
western schools, has just established a
unique department having for it's OBJ.
ject the study of the progress of wom-
en- in the worlds history. The uni.
versity has just received bequest
amounting to nearly 800, 900, from the
estate of the late William B. Spooner,
of Boston. uncle of the present chan
cellor of the university.
The sales and profits of the Meth.
odist book concerns, east and west, for
the past year were very large. A divi-
dend of $l25, 900 has been declared for
the support of superannuated ministers
and of the widows and children of dead
ministers. This sum will be divided
among the annual conferences. During
the year 1891 the New York concern
sold $l,061, ,076.3 IS worth of books and
periodicals, with profit of $l33, 412.6s.
The Cincinnati branch reported sales
of 81, 141, ,0sS 02, and profits of sl7l ,o7s. 1a