The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-11-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Wakes were religious institutions
| even earlier than the love feasts of thu
Arst Christians.
The Chinese Sunday school in con
nection with Bromfield Street church
Boston, has about eighty members.
In the last twenty-five years, sc
says Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, eleven
million dollars have been given in this
country to women's colleges alone.
The Presbyterian Synod of Penn
sy1vania comprises 1,135 churches, wit
q mem bership of 10000. Additions
last year to the communion rolls H.
39S.
Prof. George c. Chase, of Bates
college, Lewiston, Me-, has been adj
vanced to the presidency. He is a
During the past ten years he has raised
about $40, 900 for the institution.
The late Miss Sarah Eenllam, of
Greenport, Columbia county. n. v, LETT
by will the following 1egacies to the
Reformed church: $4,000 to the board
of foreign MISSIONS; s., 900 to the church
building fund: to the general synod,
81, 500 for the education of students for
the ministry and $3.50 for the support
of the Theological seminary. Upon
settlement of the estate and in con-
formity to the will, each of these OBJ
cCCS receives IL per CENT auOlClOnal, or
&C, s27, 1868 and $l5, 361 respectively;
total, e27, SIT.
"A controversy has been going on
between the Jews and the people of
Switzerland in regard to the slaughter
ing of animals The Jews always take
the life of an animal by bleeding. The
Swiss Humane society prosecuted the
Hebrew butchers for cruelty to ami
mails The law forbidding needless
pain to animals was enforced against
them. Inasmuch as the Jews had a re-
ligious scruple on the subject. it was
considered h great hardship. and they
to the country for relief, but
the people sustained the law in over
numbers - Presbyterian
Journal.
According to the official sta tistics
the total number of schools in the
whole German empire is Sc. sos: pupils.
7 1925 1888; teachers, I3O, OS2, of whom
l3, $50 are women. The figures for
Prussia are: Schools, a4,7s2: pupils,
:, 916, 476, and teachers, 20, 767, S.4S4 be-
ing women. In the entire empire the
are 1903 per cent of the pop
nlation; in Prussia. 1854. In Ger
many, outside of Prussia. there is one
teacher to every 81 pupils: in Prussia, |
one to every 20. These teachers re- |
,eive from $50 to $500 year. The |
annual cost of educating child is, in
81. Il: throughout the rest Of |
he empire, s7.Ge.
"A very careful religious census has
ust been taken of Scotland, under the
supervision of Rev. Robert Howic, of
glasgow. The result is remarl<a BILE,
disclosing, it does, the interesting
act that out of total populat ton Of
,O25. 647 the various denominations had |
1868. 1876 in church communion. being |
;'6 per cent. per 200 of the population.
his left 1,062.5l1, or 264 per cent. per
900 ''churchless.' The churches
ivided the {, 1908, 1856 as follows: Estab-
shed Presbyterian). 1.146,247; Free
hurch, I'll ,O31: L. +. church, 455. 1O1:
mailer Protestant churches :,3S, O1O;
:oman Catholic church, 352,747. The
ercentage per 1000 of populat ton was:
(Presby terian). 24s.7 Free,
a1.5; u. p, 49, 1: other Protestants,
,. 1; Roman Catholics, SIG. But where
lse outside of Scotland and Wales is
SO per cent of the population to be
0und in communion with some church?
Christian at Work.