Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The yearly income of the Salvation
army is over S3,600,0 900.
Every fifth boy In India is at school,
but only every fftieth girl
Sweden, with nearly 5000. 600 in
,habitants, has only $40 Roman Cath
olics.
The growth In full numbers In the
Methodist Episcopal church during 1891
was 70'6es, and Of probationers rs, 92s.
There are said to be 5000 children
IN Chicago who are debarred from at
tending school on account of insufficient
clothing.
Little more than eighty years have
elapsed since the Primitive Methodist
body was inaugurated, and now the
membership exceeds 300, 900 adults and
400, 900 children. The first class only
consisted of 10 members.
In France there are now two hun
dred and fifty-two women students, of
whom the greater number study medi-
cine. The list includes women from
Roumania, Turkey, Greece and Russia.
About one hundred are engaged in the
study of philosophy.
The Methodist Magazine SAYS: A
new Out-and-Out Band Gospel Mission
car has been built at q cost of $3.50, to
be used in the north of Ireland. Its
name is Peace" lady in Dublin Of
fered $500 toward the erection of an
other car and $3.50 for books, to be used
in the south of Ireland
Hiram Camp, of New Haven, who
gave the s25, 900 with which Mr. Moody
erected his famous school at Mortified,
has in the last year added e75. 900 to the
endowment. There have, of course,
been other contributions. II is twelve
years or so since the school opened
There are now 1875 boys in attendance
there.
In New Zealand there are 1877
churches and chapels-an increase of
1o4 since 1885. Among church goers in
the colony Presbyterians lead the van
with 40, 1855 in their ranks, and Episco-
paliAns follow next with 37,252. The
Quakers number 40, and the smallest
denomination has membership of 20,
who call themselves Christian Disci-
pies.
There are twelve memorial kinder
gartens at work in San Francisco, and
six of them were started by Mrs. Lee
land Stanford. To put them on a per-
manent basis she has now set aside
100000 az an endowment fund She
has given sec, 0e0 for those schools pre-
viouAly. The one opened in 1884 BY
Mrs. Stanford was the first memorial
kindergarten In the world, it is said.
The saoTSd fires of India have not
all been extinRuished. The most
ancient, which exists, was consecrated
twelves centuries ago in commemora-
tion of the voyage made by the Parsees
when they emiVTated from Persia to
India. The fire is fed five time every
twenty-four hours with sandal wood
and other fragrant materials, com bin ed
with very dry fuel. This IRE, in the
village Of Oodwada, near BulsAr, is Wis
tied by the Parsees in large numbers
during the months allotted to the pre-
siding genius of fire.
"A recent census bullctin shows
that the Presbyterian church of Amer
lea has e,717 organizations, @, 608 church
buildings, valued at S74, ass, 400, and
7eo, 224 communicates. The Presbyte-
rian church Of the United States is
shown TO have 2, S91 organizations, 3. 2ss
church buildings, valued at Ss,s1G, 1872,
and 17s, 721 communicates. The Welsh
calvanistie Methodist, or Presbyterian,
church has 1877 organisations, 1e9
church edihces, valued at S825, sT5, and
Ie, 722 communicates. The Cumberland
Presbyterian church is shown to have
ess organizations, 100 church buildings,
valued at Saoe, oe1, with a membership
Of Is, $e9. According to this and pre-
viouS bulletins on the subject, there are
lS, 100 organizations, or congregations,
Of PreSbyterians of all branches in the
United States. 12,46S church edifces,
valued At SoG, s7s, sss, and 1,s7s,s15 COM,
nWnicants.