Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-02-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The annual receipts Of the Method
LIST board Of church extension have av-
eraged $500. 010.66 during the last four
years.
The six New England Methodist
Episcopal conferences have q total
membership of los, 1853, showing an in
crease during the past year of less than
/ per cent. Two of these conferences
show decrease. Christian at Work.
1t seems strange that any American
girls should be educated at Vienna; but
such is the case. Several daughters Of
Columbia have been finished" at the
Institute Simonson, located in that capt.
tai. Most of them were New Workers.
Bishop Phillips Brooks has cordial
~ approved of Sunday evening religious
services at the Grand opera house, Bos-
ton, a feature of which is good orches-
ira and chorus to attract people who
are not in the habit Of going to church.
in the language of the millions Of
China and Japan there is no term that
corresponds with our God. Every stu
dent of missions knows well the abid-
ing difficulty in China over the question
of term for God. Both the native
Christians and the foreign missionaries
are divided among themselves over this
perplexing question.
"A course of domestic economy was
offered to the Wellesley seniors as an
elective study, and proved most popu-
lar and valuable, evidencing the ten
dency of the times for practical indus
trial education. Students of this
course are trained in the application of
the most advanced theories of house
building and home-making to the inevi-
table everyday problems of woman's
home and social life.
The Salvation army is only thirteen
years old, and owes it's origin to q Pc
culiar and trivial circumstance. Gen.
Booth, then a humble mission worker
in mining district of Yorkshire, being
attracted by the interest of the people
in the impending Russo-Turkish war,
issued declaration of war of another
sort, posted two thousand copies about
the town, and so interested the people
in his unusual method that great re-
vival followed, and the general quickly
appropriated the idea of a salvation
army with well-known success.
DIR. Ignaz Hoppe. of the university
of Basic, Switzerland, died a short time
ago, leaving a large fortune. One Of
the bequests was that of $500, 900 pro-
viding for the investigation of the ma
ture of the soul. The interest of the
money goes toward paying the salaries
of certain number of scholars, who
are to live in house provided for them
and study and reflect on the subject
From time to time the results of their
| Investigations are to be published.
Those who undertake the work may be
either Catholics or Professionals, but
must be Christians. They must live
frugally, and devote their whole time
to the consideration of the problem.
The acquisition made by the pope
of the archives of the Borghese famil y
for $50, 900 francs is of hi storic impor-
lance. The codices of the Vatican
archives date from the time of Six
tus w., or very little earlier, for the
library of Boniface VIII. was de.
stroyed by fire, and the collection made
by the pOpes at Avignon was lost. 1t
is precisely this missing period which
is now filed by 400 codices containing
the history of the papacy during the
Avignon period that has been found in
the Borghese archives. 1t will be ar
ranged in the Vatican library by Fa-
Their Cozza, who has lately gained dis
tinction by his publication of the vati-
can Bible of the fourth century.
Among the curiosities in the Borghese
archives is a letter in the Chinese char
acter, inclosed in a cover addressed to
Paul V.