Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-23
RELIC Gus AND EDUCATIONAL.

India has 70, GOO. 900 who can read
and write out of population of eiG.-
O0O, 600.
Japan has two national educational
associations with total membership
of over 10000 The majority of the
members are university graduates
"A placard placed by the order Of
the government in the Belgian schools
states that of 125, 900 deaths, one-fifth
of tGe number or -, 600, are attributed
TO alcohol
President Harris. of the Maine
staJe college, is one of the youngest
nen in charge of 4 great educational
institution in the country. being only
so years of age.
The will of RI Rev. Bishop oFsr-
reH of Trenton, y. j., gives his library,
which is large and very valuable, 10
his successor, and bequeaths sl2, 500 TO
charitable and religious institutions
Within every healing shadow is
God Himself; and so, though il seem TO
be shadow of the sorest sorrow and
pain, yet will il lift us upward and
lead us into the light-Robert Collyer
President Eliot. of Harvard, insists
that students should study ten hours a
day. This will never do What time
would be left for football, boat racing
and other athletic sports? What are
our colleges for Mr. President?
i am satisfied / am on the right
path so long as / can see anything to
make me happier. Anything TO make
me love man, therefore, God the more.
God is not far from that heart to which
God is membranes Russell Lowell.
The converts in the Samoan islands
have given as much as a., 600 in one
year 10 the work OF missions. The
Eijian Christians contributed $1,000 a
year 10 the same cause, and the church
in the Friendly islands numbers 80, 600.
and gives Si5, 600 a year.
After the nude In art comes the
nude in religion. a new sect on this
line is now flourishing In the district
of Nicolaieff, Russia. 1t is communistic'
in it's tendencies, and it's members.
brothers and sisters. work in the fields.
just like other peasants They derive
considerable profits from the land
which they cultivate. They never dress
to GO TO church; on the contrary, they
do the very reverse, rain or shine.
The statistics of Congregational
churches in Massachusetts show that
there are 5S7 churches, an increase of
s; 1O7, 524 church members, n net in
crease of 1,5S1; additions on confession
of faith, $3.50; III, 905 Sunday-school
members, gain of 1,429. The contri-
button for benevolent objects for the
past year have been s674, 1872, falling
off of S177, 933. At the same time the
home expenses have increased by S107,-
632, making T. total of 81, 7O9, 341. Some
of the new churches are Swedish, and
growth is reported among the French
Canadians of the state.-New York In
dependent.
The body of Otani Kosho, ex-Chie!
Abbot of the Hong Wan Temple.
was incinerated at Kioto, Japan, re-
/ Gently, at cost of 500, 600. That is to
say, the funeral display cost that sum.
There was n golden hearse, large
number of lay mourners, and, all told,
10, 600 persons in the funeral cortege.
1t was reviewed by $50, OOO people, in
Guiding members of the imperial fam
lily, peers, representatives of various
Buddhist temples and leading officials
of the locality. Something of the size
Of the job undertaken by missionaries
in attempting to substitute the Christ
ian religion for that of Ruddha in the
Empire of Japan may be surmised from
the generation thus shown land paid
for by popular subscription to this
priest. -Portland Oregonian