Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-13
RELIGIOUS ANo EDUCATIONAL.

The heart is the source of all true
sloquence. -LonginuS
Our prayers and Gods mercy are
like two buckets in n well. while ons
ascends. the otl err Bishop
Hopkins.
There is nothing so small. but that
we may honor God by asking his guid.
ance of il, or insult Him by taking II
into our own hands -Rusl<in.
When benjamin Parsons was diving
he was visited 10y his friend Paxton
Hood, and in reply 10 the question:
How are you to-day?" he replied: "My
head is resting very sweetly on three
pillows-Inhnite Power, Infinite Wis
dom, Infinite Love"
AT recent meeting of the Regents
of the State University at Wheeling,
w. Va, all except three of the vacan-
cies in the faculty were filed Prof
Ogden and President Turner are out
permanently. No president was elected.
and Vice-President Reynolds will fill
the place until June Only three Of
the old faculty were reinstated
Some people are fond of making out
that future state is TO be very like
this, only better, and that we are to
have back again what we have lost
here. don't agree TO that We want
something better and different, not
better and like ] consider that for a
permanent life we want many new
powers and trust the Almighty that
we shall have them-one of them is the
power TO be unwcaried by possession
and continuance. Jean Ingelow.
Albion college. Mich, has had a
very prosperous year. its attendance
having reached 6e7. 1t graduated six
ty-seven from the several department
last month, six of these receiving the
masters degree, which is not given in
course but on examination for post
graduate work. Within wear the in
stitution has erected fine gymnasium,
Is completing n chemical laboratory,
52XSS feet, and four stories in height.
Plans have been drawn for $50, 600
library building. which will be COM
menced in September.
According TO the census of Burrnah.
only recently published. there are g.
SSs,O75 Buddhists l6s.+i0 Nat-worship-
ers, III, 517 Hindus, 2JS. O31 Mohamme-
dams, 100, 56s Christians, 3, 164 silkhs,
S51 Jews, 90 Parsis, and 40 whose reli-
gion was not given. The Christian
churches are represented as follows:
Church of England. 9,S12: Roman
Catholics, 90, SOS; Baptists, "a. AS. Pres
byterians, 500; Wesleyans, 40; Metho-
dists, 4l3; Lutherans, 234; Unitarians,
s; Armenians, 1876; Greeks, Is; Chris
tians, sects not returned. 500.
"A bill Of complaint has been filed
in the United States circuit court Hart
ford, Ct, by the board of fellows of
Yale university against State Treasurer
Marvin II. Sanger. in regard to the di-
version Of Connecticut's share OF the
government fund for agricultural pur-
poses from Yale university TO Storrs
Agricultural college by the general
assembly. 1t is claimed that this is in
violation of acts OF congress and an
agreement entered into by Gov Buck
ingham in 1862, between the state
of Connecticut and Yale.
According TO the official statistics
the total number of schools in the
whole German empire is So, 56s. pupils
Z, ops. 6sS, teachers 100 O35. of whom Is. .
$50 are women. The figures for Prussia
are, schools S4,742. pupils, 1916, 40 and
teachers 40, 767, S,4Si being women. In
the entire empire the scholars are iG OS
per cent. Of the population; in Prussia
1854. In Germany outside of Prussia
there is one teacher TO every 81 pupils:
in Prussia one to every 90 These teach
ers receive from 500 TO $500 a year.
The annual cost Of educating a child is
in Prussia S5.14; throughout the rest of
the empire So as.