Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Prince lppollto, nephew OF Grlnce
Borghese, has entered the jesuit order
in Rome, and has taken the oath OF
poverty and humility. He is a young
man, only just turned IS, and is mil
lionaire. OF course his vast wealth will
go to the order-Philadelphia Times.
America, through the American
board, expended in fifty years 81, $50 900
to evangelize Hawaii, and has during
that time received about S4,0OO,00 a
year in trade. England's missions are
said to bring back ten pounds in trade
for every pound given to convert the
heather. illustrated Christian Weekly.
A speaker at the recent interna-
tional congress showed by experiments
upon school children, when three or
four sums in arithmetic were given in
succession, that each sum showed an
inferiority to the previous one, both in
correctness and as regards the time in
which it was completed. This one fac
ulty employed was gradually exhaust
ed, fresh piece of evidence showing
the necessity for diversity of work.
In the Roman Catholic church, in
the sixth century, it was ordained that
no commemoration should be made in
the Eucharist for such as committed
self-murder This ecclesiastical law
continued till the Reformation, when
it was admitted into the statute law of
England by the authority of parlia-
ment, with the confscaton of land and
goods. Till 1928 the body of the sui
eide was directed to be buried in cross
road, and stake to be driven through
it.
The American Sunday school union
makes the following report of its york
during the three years last March. 1t
has in this time established 5,2G1 new
Sunday-schools in needy or destitute
communities, into which were gathered
90, SS7 teachers, and 1856, or scholars. The
results in conversions and the develop
ment of churches from these schools is
1881 conversions and the organizing
of 1856 churches. This work costs about
800, 600 year, and reaches those who
are not provided for by any other
agency.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Richards, who is in
structor at the Boston Institute of
Technology, never misses an oppor-
tunity to get all the housewifely sci
ence she can into the heads of the big
"tech." boys. They'll need it some
time" she says, eagerly, and with one
L L,,,1 III ,lg 10 ~
marry, but there are precious few boys
who don't. And | mean to make these
boys competent instructors in case they
get incompetent wives. They'll know
great deal more about housekeeping
than the men of this generation"
"A curious custom of the Greek
church was illustrated at the funeral
the other day of the young Grand
Duchess Paul of Russia. Before the
coffin was closed the metropolitan
placed a written paper in the right
hand of the corpse, which read: I'VE,
by the grace of God, prelate of the
holy Russian church, write this to our
master and friend, st. Peter, the gate
keeper of the Lord Almighty. We an
nounce to you that the servant of the
Lord, her imperial highness the Grand
Duchess Paul, has finished her life or
earth and we order you to admit hel
into the kingdom of Heaven without
delay, for we have absolved all her sins
and granted her salvation. You will
obey our order on sight of this docu
ment which we put into her hand"