The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


-srhe Baptists of this country gave
s1s. a).,4ls into the treasures of sAeir
churches last year.
Cine of the laws of . newly-formed
Zulu church in Africa is: mo member
shall be permitted to drink the white
mans grog"
The Free Baptists have in their
twelve UNCONVENTIONAL schools Ais
stude 15o Of whom are studying for
the ministry.
Eight hundred Americans are said
to be pursuing studies at the university
of Berlin out Of three thousand enrolled
1T ADMINISTRATION
There are now 1850 Christian con-
gregatsons in Madagascar. The Roman
Catholics began work there in 1915. but
not trace is now left of their Ia bors.
Mrs Linden Kent. of Washington.
has gwen the university of Virginia
$4,000 TO endow chair of English
literature. Her husband was distin-
guished graduate of the university.
The Living Church SAYS that in the
Episcopal church ''out of total num-
Der of commandments of So. o5s in the
United States, less than sc. 900 take a
church journal giving general news Of
the church's thought and work
-Afghanistar has 8 Zoo, 600 of popu-
!Stion and no missionary; India. one
missionary to 255, 600; Persia, TO 500
zoe: Thibet, / to a,oo0, 600. IL 40. 600
missionaries were sent ito India there
would still be only one to every so 200.
The presidents of the following
cole ges are graduates of Yale: Yale
university. Johns Hopkins university,
Rutgers college. university of Mime.
sofa, Pennsylvania state college. Belois
college, Atlanta university, Tulane uni.
versiW, Southern university and Doane
college.
Chicago University has abolished
the examination system in the gradu-
ate school and the university colleges.
This is to take effect the present GUAR
Ter, and the deans have sent instruc-
tions TO the teachers TO that effect An
instructor may or may not give an ex-
animation as he pleascs; but the point
is THAI it is no longer required. Stu-
dents are expected to attend the daily
recitatlonS regularly.
The slang names applied 10 certain
New York churches twenty years or
more ago were thought then To he
rather smart, but one never hears now
of the church of the Holy Turtle. the
church of the Holy Zebra and the
church of the Holy Blowers. Perhaps
this indicates little finer taste in the
general public. The Little Church
Around the Corner is about the only
one that keeps its ultra. religious title
college marks. college honors. coll
lege courses, college degrees-all these
things belong. with the college cap and
gown and laurel berries, 10 the baby
inheritance from the past, from the
time when scholarship was not man
hood. when the life of the student had
no relation 10 the life of the world"
SO says President Jordan of Leland
Stamford university.
An interesting report has recently
been published in reference 70 TIE cost
of new churches and the restoration 81
old churches in England during the
years 1881. During these eighteen
years England and Wales alone ex-
pended for this purpose $40. 800. GEO OF
this sum 81 ESQ ooo have been put into
church buildings in London and almost
the same amount in Manchester The
enormous su IN Of nearly ffs. DOC. 600 was
given as volunteer offerings; the rest
was voted by the government.