The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are four women missionary
physicians in Persia
Teachers in the Mexican public
schools are paid $50 TO $40 month.
The Band of Hope in Australia ha.
q membership of over 2,000.0 900 OF
young people, and an annual income
of 10. 900 pounds. employs % lecturers,
and last year sold 100000 publica-
tons.
The Catholic laymen, having in
charge the proposed memorial to the
MARYLAND legislature asking for state
aid for parochial schools, have been
requested to drop the subject, and seE.
eral Catholic members of the legisla.
ture saw that no bill will now be intro
duced for division of school funds, as
the opposition to the project has been
too pronounced.
The course of instruction in naval
architecture recently established at
the Massachusetts, institute of technol'
ogy provides for a thorough training
in the theory and methods of devising
and building ships, together with a
study of the properties requisite for
safety and good behavior at sea. 1t is
arranged to occupy four years, and
leads to the degree of bachelor OF
science.
given the sum of 1000 to Newman
college for the purpose of endowing
scholarship, to be called by the name
!~of her husband. Arthur Hugh Clough.
1t is intended that the scholarshipsh
be awarded each year to the best-qual'
fled candidate, who, having studied at
Newman college for three years,
wishes to continue her studies there
for fourth year.
According to the statistics in the
annual report of the japanese mission
american board), there are 109 Con.
gregational churcher in Japan with
total membership of 10000. The num-
Der of additions by confession last year
was /, 096, an increase of fifty-six over
the preceding year. There are 12s
preachers ana % Bible women. The
contributions for church purposes were
k25, 7O9, a gain of nearly S., 600 over the
year before.
According to London Daily
Chronicle telegram from st. Peters
burg, the exiled Baptists and Stundists
in the governments of Tif1is and Eliza
vatpolsk continue to be prosecuted,
and almost every week fresh families OF
nonconformist peasants arrive to swell
the army of those who are now suffer-
ing in exile for their faith. Last year
the Baptists owned a Westinghouse in
Tifis. but this has now been shut up
by the police. They are. therefore,
obliged to hold their meetings outside
Of the town in the mountains, where
they meet in secrecy.
John Berridge, one of the great
preachers of England, was not content
to preach only in his own parish, and
was often reprimanded by his bishop.
AT the end of dialogue, in which the
witty Berridge foiled the bishop at
every turn, they parted with these
closing sentences: ''As to your con-
science" said his lordship. you know
that preaching out of your parish is
contrary to the canons of the church"
Berridge replied: There is one canon
which 1 dare not disobey, and
that says: 60 preach the Gospel to
every creature >"
The resignation of Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle will, it is believed, and the exist
.nce of the church. No other man
could fill the vast auditorium, holding
as it does five thousand persons, every
Sunday. The ia bernacle was built es-
pecially for DR.. Talmage. end without
him it must be closed. This is admit
ted by Leonard Moody. president of
the board of trustees, who says that if
Or. Talmage leaves the church it must
ce sold for the benefit of the two cred
tors, Mr.. Sage, to whom is owed, with
interest, s175,OO0, and Mr.. Willis, to
whom is due, with interest, $50, oCU
making total of about S207, 600 The
church property as it stands costs
$50, 600.