The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-19
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The income of Oxford university 10
$3.50, 900.
-McGill university. Montreal, has .
department of pathology, which was
recently endowed by gift of 500. 900.
There are only four teachers in the
United States who receive a salary as
high as $4,000 a year. and three Of
them are college presidents.
Ten thousand religious services
were conducted and 700. 900 visits made
by the agents of the Metropolitan Tab
ernacle Colportage association last
year. The total value of sales amounts
to al0. s2s los 1od.
Mrs. John J. Atkins, of Philadel-
phia, has the pen with which Robert
Raikes, Of England, inscribed the names
of the children who attended the first
Sunday-school in the world, one hun
dred and thirteen years ago
Only 81, out of 325 Christian En-
deavor societies in the Reformed Church
of America have yet joined the Chris
tian Endeavor Missionary league Of
that church. These 81 pledge an aver
age amount of over s35 a year to mis-
sions.
The total increase Of Baptists in
the United States for the decade 1890
1890, was 1.l32,753. The gain among
northern Baptists was l92, 900; south
ern. 5000; colored, nearly 7o0.o
The total gain Of the Congregational
lists for the same period was 12s, 437; of
the Methodist Episcopal (north), 5s7,
654; of the Presbyterian (north), 2l4.-
e25; Of the Episcopal, 1855
"A South Australian Christian En-
deavor society has inaugurated a new
kind of social. To this social the mem
bers bring things TO eat, but they do
not eat them. They cover large table
with loaves of bread, bags of -four,
rice, oatmeal, together with gifts Of
money, and these things are handed
over to the lady missionary of the
church, to distribute among the poor.
Several of the Adelaide societies have
thus found that 'it In better to give
than to receive"
. The increase of the Christian popu.
lation of British India, during the
twenty years from 1872 to 1891, exceed.
ed GO per cent. and IS per cent for all
India. But it Is singular circum.
stance that the native Christians have
not received any substantial measure
of local self-government from the Eu
ropeau or American religious bodies to
which they belong. The British gov
ernment has moved in advance of the
Christian churches in granting de
gree of political Acknowledgement and
a measure of local self-government u
the Indian people as whole.
The general missionary commits
Of the Methodist Episcopal church, In
sessio n at Minneapolis recently dc
cided upon the sum Of 81, 900 as ths
total to be appropriated for the worl
of domestic and foreign missions fol
the ensuing fiscal year. The financia
report Of the year. submitted by DIR
Sanford Hunt, of New York, said il
brief that the gross receipts for tn,
year showed a decrease of nearly SOL,
900, and that instead of the balance o
$4,000 which stood to the credit o
the committee on November I of las
year, it was now confronted with &
treasury debt of s109, ,26S, and addin,
to this an outstanding bill of exchang,
of e7s, ,043 made total indebtedness o
elss. 2O8. The total expenditures O
the year were q, $50, 245.