The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18

SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

Wakes were religious institutions,
even earlier than the love fcasts of the
frst Christians.
The Chinese Sunday school in con.
nection with Bromfield Street church,
Boston, has about eighty members.
In the last twenty-five years, 40
says Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer, eleven
million dollars have been given in this
country to women's colleges alone.
The Presbyterian Synod OF Penn
sylvania comprises i,135 churches, with
membership of 10000. Additions
last year to the communion rolls IL
39S.
Prof George c. Chase, of Bates
college, Lewiston, Me-, has been ad-
vanced to the presidency. He is n
graduate of the college, 80 years old.
During the past ten years he has raised
about $40, 600 for the institution.
The late Miss Sarah Bcnham, Of
Greenport, Columbia county, n. Y, les 81
by will the following legacies TO the
| Reformed church: 81, 900 To the board
OF foreign missions; 81, 900 TO the church
building fund; to the general synod,
$4,000 for the education of students for
the ministry and $3.50 for the support
OF the Theological seminary. Upon
settlement of the estate aud in CON
iorrnlty to the will. each of these OBJ
ects receives IL per cent. additional, or
s0,S27, $3.50 and sl5,36l respectively;
total, f27,s77.
"A controversy has been Roinp on
between the Jews and the people of
switzerland in regard to the slaughter
ing of animals. The Jews aIways 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. lnasmuch as the Jews had a re-
ligious scruple on the subject, IL was
considered great hardship, and thew
appealed to the country for relief, but
the people sustained the law in over
whelminR numbers, PRESBYTERIAN
Journal.
According to the official statistics
the total number OF schools in the
whole German empire is Sc, 563; pupils.
1870, 0Ss; teachers, l20,032, of whom
1900 are women. The figures for
Prussia are: Schools, "a, 742: pupils,
4,al8,476, and teachers, 40, 167, 3, ,4si be- |
ing women. In the entire empire the
scholars are 1903 per cent. of the pop
ulation; 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-
oeive from $3.50 to $500 year. The |
annual cost of educating child is, in
Prussia, $7.l4; throughout the rest Of
the empire, 1893.
"A very careful religious census has
just been taken of Scotland, under the |
supervision of Rev. Robert IIowic, Of |
fact that out of total population Of
4 ,025, ,647 the various denominations had
2, ,903, 1876 in church communion, being
T3B per cent. per 900 of the population.
This left 1,0G2,b or 264 per cent. per
/ 1000 "churchless. The churches
divided the 2,9G8, 1876 as follows: Estab-
lished ('resbyterianl, t,l4G,247; Free
church, III ,03l; Z. p. church, 4j5, 10l;
smaller Protestant Churches 23S S,0l0;
Roman Catholic church, 352, ,7i7. The
per 200 Of population was:
Established (Presbyterian), 24S7; Free,
1918; u. p, 1t3.t other Protestnnts,
Sol; Roman Catholics, s76. But where
else outside of Scotland and Wales is
73.6 per cent Of the population to be
found in communion with some church,
Christian at Work.