Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


 Tine Salvation Army, under Major
 f fEborn. is accomplishing great things 1 3south America. The major pro S8Ses opening in Chili.
 Women have Hooked in such mum 1,6xe to hear Prof. Froude's lectures <1 Erasmus at Oxford that the men s,s{duates and undergraduates were 58iriy crowded out. ezsz.
 -The chief justice of the supreme coasrt of Japan issa Christian, and en- oeres actively. in Christian work in Io- i<ro. where heliges. He is president or the Tokyo Y. NJ. c. A.
 AThe senate of Dublin university he a greed to confer the degree of LID. anon Lord Charles Russell of England; Bishop Stevens, of Ohio, and Bishop Walker, of Dakota.
 1.-The Episcopal church reports for ;fs mission in Brazil four presbyters, four catechists, four candidates for or dars. ninety communicants, 205 in the sunday-schools, si1tY-five in the paro- nbial schools, and contributions amount ing to 2,224 milreis.
 There was an income in the Educa- tional society of the Methodist church of Canada during the past year of over 8f9.0O0. There arege1evep educational insfitutfbns under it's direction. The axgregate attendance of students at } 6Ssse7eral colleges is about 2,000. Of these 20o are students of theology pre- 6afing for the ministry.
 .,.,,4 -aaaiuod hxy ffla n,s- iSsz Sunday School union for carrying S6.their. work during the last year was Si3o. 15s,. against $1O9,23s for the pre- Si15s.s.year. There have been in the f1ad ass men employed. As one result X their fabors 1.7s5 new Sunday schools were organized, having 6s,273 SxeIschers and scholars: 439 were re- sfranized, and aid was given to exist iHex schools s,36s times.
 .x The following figures iii reference fbthe Sunday schools in this country and in the world were given at the re. x1sht meeting of the International Suaday School committee: Number of schools in the United States f21, ,977; officers and teachers, 1903. 254; scholars 9.18s, 506; total 1.113.55 In the whole world there are: Schools, 224, ,563; off cers and teachers, 2.239, 73s: scholars, 70 26s, ,e23; total, g, 7S2, 224.
 -The United Presbyterian church h9s the present year one more synod and two morerptesbyterie than it had last year. There are sS3 ministers, an increase of 23; 70 students in theology, xain of 4; 9S9 congregations, which is more than last year: and 115.272 mem bers,f which is a net gain of a little QyfrN 1000. There are 1.096 Sunday schSols, with 101, ,667 scholars. The tofsl-eontrihutions of the church were 1I;606, ,064.
 The most trustworthy figures make khe Church of England adherents in Wales and Monmouthshire 11T,90O, or G6 per cent. of the population. The Nonconformists, not including Unita- sians, Scotch Presbyterians, Plymouth Brsthern, Quakersi Salvationists and several other bodies, number 3s7 ,571 or Bis per cent. of the whole popula- tion. Of the whole number of com Hhanieants the English church has 23. 4 per cent. and the great Nonconforming hod,es 76.6 per cent Boston Watch man.
 Vassar graduated sseventy-one ztudents this year, to sixteen of whom honors were awarded. From the honor stndents six were chosen by the faculty a9 a9commencement speakers The gradu- atihg gowns at Yassar are always purs white and without gloves. Those whG listened were delighted with the clear and natural delivery of the speakers, Rresident Taylor announced that the year had been an easy one financially, Notwithstanding the general distress. Xbe endowment funds have paid good Moome. and much of the debt ac' cnmulated last year had been liquid 1ted,