Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

{, There are 257 religious denomina. tions in England.
 I A school is to be opened in Japan by Mrs. Tel Lem, a highly educated Japanese lady of Tokyo, where she will teach the native women of her own rank.
 2 Russia permits the free importa- tion of the Bible sprinted in other lam guages than Russian. But no Russian Bible can circulate unless printed by the state church.
 Prof Harold M. Fowler of the ven- erable Phillips Exeter academy has ac- cepted the chair of Greek in the univer- sity of Texas at nearly twice the salary he is now receiving.
 Nearly 300 villages have been visited during the last year by the thirty-eight missionaries of the Church of England Temperance society. Over 1s,OOO cases were visited at their homes, and nearly 20, 900 prisoners were met on their dis charge from jail.
 The queen of Prussia is devoutly religious and devotes much of her time and money to church extension. She has been the chief worker for the erec- ton of half a dozen churches in Berlin, and obtained permission from the sul- tan of Turkey to build Protestant church in Jerusalem.
 In 1870 the proportion of certified women teachers was AS in every 100; to-day it is 66. Similarly, the number of women assistants has rison from 60 to 77 per 100. In 1870 there were 7,273 girls and 5,569 boy teachers. There are now 21, I'll girls and only 6,36O boys learning the art of teaching. It has been decided by the French minister of public instruction to pre- serve cas a museum Jeanne Darc's home in Domremi, and to illustrate in it her history. It will contain models of the statues erected to her memory, | copies of paintings showing scenes in l her life, and sketches of the picture of her in the Pantheon.
 The introduction of bells into | churches is usually ascribed to Saint Paulinus, bishop of Ncla in Campania | (40O A. D.. Their use in churches and monasteries soon spread through chris | tendon. They were introduced into France about $50, and Benedict abbot | of Wearmouth, brought one from Italy into England about 6SO.
 | The new Grace Street church, Phil | adelphia, had it's origin in the gift of | fifty-seven cents for new church made on oher deathbed by a little girl six years old. She had been refused ad- mission to the Sunday-school because it was too large to receive her. From that day she began to save her money to build larger church.
 l When the church of Scotland pc | titioned Lord Palmerston to appoint a day of fasting and prayer so that the cholera might depart from "their
 midst" he told them instead to get down on their knees and scrub their
 floors and let in Gods light and air, and keep everything clean. They
 voted, however, to resent his advice as
 blasphemous and insulting. That was
 thirty years ago, and such advice takes
 better now.
 -Pessimism, like the cholera, comes
 to us from the east, and is not less
 deadly. It creeps into our poetry, per
 vades our philosophy and riots in oul
 fiction. A world without God is neces
 sarily world without hope. One car
 not postulate progress except there be
 given the power to work out the re
 suits prophesied. Nothing can save
 atheism from despair, and nothing turn
 despair aside from anarchy. "Whert
 there is no vision the people perish. "- N V Evap0a1iSt