The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A friend of Westminster college has
offered TO IL $4,000 on condition of an
equal sum ing raised by the trustees
The university Of California will
bestow the medal for prominence in
scholarship on woman. Miss Elino1
Croudace, of San Francisco will win the
honor for this year, after completing
the course in letters and political
science.
The Moravians in Georgia cstab-
lished the first orphan asylum in the
American colonies about 1898, and Rev
George Whitefeld laid the foundation
stone OF one ten miles from Savannal
in 1740. In 1876 there were four hun
lred orphan asylums in the United
States.
-Monsignore Is title conferred upor
members of the papal household and
church and also upon prelatcs. AL
lrch hbishops are monsignores, but al
monsignores are not archbishops n
the case Of an archbishop the title mon
signore is, as 1t were, familiar form
" address.
The directors of the United Pres.
byterian seminary at Allegheny, Pa,
report that the invested endowment
has increased during the year by sls
900 and is now a little over s171, 900
The young mems fund is about 53S,0OO
The income from the past year from all
| sources was a little over S14, 600.
The number Of free-pew churches
in New York city will probably be in
creased by the addition Of the Episco-
pal Church of the Ascension Rev
Percy s. Grant, of Fall River Mass
who has been called to the rectorship
| to succeed DR.. e. Winchester Donald.
now of Trinity church, Boston, makes
this condition of his acceptance,
The publication of work entitled
yale Bibliographies" is the plan OF
one of the instructors of Yale univer-
iity. 1t aims to furnish a reference TO
| dhe Investigations of all the officers Of
the university, and includes the titles
IF all the important publications Of
| .he professors, instructors and lectur
ars in the university, together with
those of ex-President Noah Porter.
The statistics of the Presbyterian
church in England, presented recently
| show membership of G6,971, an in
,rease of 200. The number of congre
| cations remains the same, 300. In tn,
| 5abbath-schools there are 1884 teach
| ers and 1882 scholars. Nearly one
| fourth of the membership are engaged
in active Christian work in the Sab
bath-school as district visitors, etc
The legislature has passed the ap
| preparations for Michigan university
| for 1898. They amount to Sis2, 800. o.
| this amount S142, 500 is for current eX
| penses, $S7, 800 for new administra
aion building and 81, 500 for an anatom
cal laboratory The new law provid
ing for funds by an increase of the mil
| tax from one-twentieth to one-siXth
q mill does not take effect until a yea.
! from now.
Probably the largest congregation
IN the United States is that of the
church of the Most Precious Blood (Ro
man Catholic), in New York city. II
was founded for Italians only a few
| gears ago, and %, 900 of that nationals
ty belong to its parish. The parish
| St. Joachim, which is also an Italian
church, has about 10, 900 communicants
| md it is estimated that $500 attenC
mass there every Sunday, there being
| six services.
The summaries of statistics of tn
| congregational churches in this coun
| try, as completed, show 5,139 churches
| gain of 154; 541, ,725 members, a gaiI
| If 1G,629; benevolent contributions 81.
j51 ,s92, an increase of S2O8, or; home
expenditures, S7,1Ss,5 ,592, an increase OF
| ;846, ,0S5. The total additions to the
churches have been 54,576, of which
! 1,5s2 were on confession. There have
been 1O,O O4O adult baptisms and 10, ,357 in
FAINT baptisms.
There are several passages in the
Scriptures which convey the idea that
| ONE great secret-the details Of some
nonstrous smystery-wa communicated
| 10 the apostles by Jesus during the time
| hat He was associated with them in
the flesh. All the early christian
fathers, and "A great many modern di
ines Of high standing, believe that the
secret was made known to the apos-
les with the understanding that it wa;
| 20 be handed down to the. heads of the
church until the end of time.