The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-07-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


schools in North Carolina is in excess Of
any other state, aggregating 1,469.
The teachers and school superin.
tendents of the United States receive
ssO,OO0,OOO annually. This amount in.
creases S2,5OO,OOO each year, or three
and half per cent.
The Grand River Congregational
church on the Standing Rock Indian
reservation, North Dakota, lately re.
ceived twenty-seven adult members.
Among them was One Bull, son of the
late Sitting Bull.
The Congregational Association Of
Chicago numbers so churches and IL:
ministers, with IL, 93S church members
The amount contributed last year fof
home expenses was $249, 1886, while the
sum raised for benevolent objects
reached 1880
The number of American students
in Berlin this season is unusually great.
At the university alone the number is
20S out of total of 5,547. Then there
are many more than this attending pri
vate clinics, studying koch's methods.
acquiring the German language. or pur
suing studies in art and music.
Commander Hannah Ouchterlong,
the Swedish Salvation Army officer
who has just arrived in this country, is
described as ''keen, sharp-eyed little
woman, who can make pretty gooC
talk in English, but who is wonder ir
Swedish, and has built up the army ir
Sweden at an absolutely astounding
rate"
A correspondent of the American
1sraelite has found, while examining
the catalogue of Il large eastern col
lege' (the name of which is not given.
that 10 per cent. of the students there
are Jews, and that last year the Jewish
students secured, by competitive tests
60 per cent. of the honors of that were
awarded.
The Christian Union lays it down
as fact that a deteriorated quality OF
young men are going into the ministry
nowadays. 1t doesn't attempt to ac
count for it, but leaves the reasons tc
be inferred. Probably the chief one is
that the salaries paid to clergymen are
not up to those paid to similar talent in
other professions
-Bcquests for religious, educational
and charitable purposes under one hun
dretl and twenty of the wills reported
in this country last year amounted tc
about S7,0OO,OOO. The amouns of char
liable requests and gifts in England ir
1891, eXclusi e of Baron Hirsch's bene
factions, is estimated at about 5000.
gregationalist.
The Northwestern university at
Evanston. ILL.,. has. within few months.
received large additions to it's availa BILE
funds, including 100000 for prepara-
tory school; $4,000 for library: $50.
900 for school Of technology, in addi-
ton to the 100000 from the Faver-
weather estate for the same purpose.
and $50, 900 to endOw professorship in
the medical college.
The Methodist Episcopal general
conference at Omaha decided that pas
toral relations shall not be extended bv
nbolishing the present time limits Of
five years. The vote disclosed the fact
that 1862 delegates favored abolition OF
the limit, while 29s were recorded in
opposition. Contest over this question
is not ended, but many years will
elapse before the opponents of itincracy
succeed.
The Episcopal church in England
has 81 bishops and $4,000 other clergy.
men; in the United States, 81 bishops
and $500 clergymen: in Ireland, i:
bishops and 1,sO7 other clergymen, and
in Canada, "a bishops and 1900 other
clergymen; in Asia, - bishops and 712
other clergymen; in Africa, 10 bishops
and $50 other clergymen: in Australia,
Fl bishops and 300 other clergymen, and
in Scotland, II bishops and $50 other
clergymen; in scattered dioceses, bish-
ops and 12O other clergymen-a grand
total of 1S9 bishops and 81, 729 other
clergymen.