Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-06
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 The total income of the church of | England is about $1, ,O00, 900 week. Twenty England and American women are studying at the university In Leipsic
 Mine 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 8 woman for its fully-accredited pastor.
 The followers of the Shintonist re- ligion in Japan number about |, 1000, 900 souls. and have about 800, 900 temples. four or five of which are presided over by one minister, who also teaches in the Japanese grammar schools.
 Next to the Moravians the United Presbyterians of Scotland are the mis- sionary church. Their 570 churches, with 1s5, 900 members, contributed $400,- 900 last year, and the gain of converts was 800 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 dfty-six women from seventeen states.
 The Salvation Army has secured a 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 a thriving farm colony, and is training Spanish-speaking cadets. Review.
 Women of the south are agitating the question of schools of high grade and possibly colleges for their daugh. ters- A suggestion has been made that a monument to the memory of women who won a noble name in the civil wal by deeds of self-sacrlfice, take the form of a college for women, and that Mrs Jefferson Davis be made president fol life.
 The United States general conven tion of Universalists has recently is l 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, ,0S9; churcl membership, 41,177; Sunday -schoo membership, 56, 11O; property, less debt $7, 96s S4s; expenses and contributions $l, ,192, s54.
 Amherst college has 326 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 graduate were attending Congregational theolog ical schools, a larger number by seven teen than that furnished by any othe , institution represented A movemen has been started to support an alumnu on the missionary field, and the treas urer has already in hand $7O3 for thi purpose.
 , A western university, the universi ty of Kansas, which President Eliot o Harvard ranks second only to tn Michigan university among the grea western schools, has just tablished
 unique department having for it's ot 7 feet the study of the progress of wom ) en in the worlds history. The uni ? versity has just received a beques , amounting to nearly $1OO, 900, from tn estate of the late William B. Spoonel of Boston. uncle of the present chan cellor of the university.
 s The sales and profits of the Meth n odist book concerns, east and west, fo I the past year were very large. A div \ dend of Sl25, 900 has been declared fo s the support of superannuated minister T and of the widows and children of dea
 ministers. This sum will be divide among the annual conferences. Durin d the year 1891 the New York concer J. sold $1, ,O61 ,O76 3s worth of books an g periodicals, with profit of $133. 412. 6t .- The Cincinnati branch reported sale if of s1, Al, ,O9s O2, and profits of $l71. O7s. 1: