The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
School AND CHURCH.

Out of so. 600 Sioux, over 1900 are
now members of Episcopal, Presby-
terrain or Congregational churches
Pierre van Beneden, whose death
occurred lately at Louvian. was pro-
lessor in the Louvian university for
period of over fifty years
The late j. C. Wilmerding, of San
Francisco. left $4,000 to found a
school of industrial arts in connection
with the University of California
Chicago has 62e churches of all de-
nominations. OF these the Methodists
have los churches and missions, the
Roman Catholics lo1. the Ccngrega-
tionalists s., the Baptists -, the Lu-
therans 81, the Presbyterians 56, the
Episcopalians ~.
AT the annual meeting of the
trustees of the Western Reserve uni
versity, at Cleveland. o., gifts to the
amount of $500, 1000 were received, in
GLIDING one from Samuel Mather of
sa57. 900 for the equipment and cree
ton of physical laboratory.
Franklin II. Giddings. A. NJ, who
has for six years been professor of po-
liti al science at Bryn Mawr college,
has been elected professor of sociology
and placed at the head of newly
created and largely-endowed depart
ment of sociology in Columbia univer-
sity, New York city.
Mrs. Mary Louise Trafran Whit
ney, who is pastor of the Unitarian
church in West Somerville, Mass, first
undertook ministerial service in order
to relieve her husband, Rev. Herbert
Whitney, who found it difficult to fill
two Sunday engagements, and induced
her to take one of them, which she did
with such success that she soon de-
cided to accept small charge of her
own.
-Archdeacon Farrar has been for
some time engaged on book 10 be
called THE Life OF Christ in Art. !"
The object of the book will not be to
write chapter in the history of art,
or to enter into technical criticism on
the works of the great masters, but To
illustrate the manner in which art re-
fleets and expresses the ever-changing
phases of Christian opinion on religious
subjects.
The Presbyterian church Of Wales
is in a condition Of healthy progress.
Its churches have increased by II dur
ing the past year. numbering now
l.2s2 1t has 1872 6iS communicates lin
crease 2. 2sS). 30. s2s adherents increase
4443), with 1872. 900 Sunday scholars and
teachers IT has 700 ordained. minis
tiers, and 1853 lay preachers In 2o4
churches only English is used in the
services -Presbyterian Journal
The Presbyterian board of educa-
ton has issued new circular TO the
churches The number OF candidates
under its care has increased from 695
in 1857 to more than 900 in 1894 In
view of the great expansion Of the for
eign work and the great demands at
home. they expect this mum Der 10 be-
come still larger. Notwithstanding
this il has gone back TO the old rate of
slOe year for each student in college
and seminary. from which il was COM
peeled 10 recede while in debt The
financial year closing on the 18th of
April, as. 900 are required in order 70
close the accounts properly.-S. y. In
dependent
Prot Peck, the New York state
botanist, urges emphatically. in view
Of the NUN Der Of deaths that have oc-
CURED from eating toadstools. that the
children OF the state be taught 20 rec
ognize the edible Mushrooms Accord
ing 70 Prof Peek. there are three hun
dred and Fifty species Of mushrooms
growing in that state, and only seven
ty-fve Of these are edible Prof Peck's
idea Is 20 secure an appropriation from
the legislature with which TO send IL
Illustrated maps 20 all the schools in the
state He says that IL the appropria-
tion viii not permit of having com
ple;e charts and books on mushrooms
furnished TO the schools Of the state.
.; lsss, chart Of the poisonous species
could DC circulated
The American Foreign Missions
board reports that the missionary WORK
for tie rear shows that there are con-
neetec with enc twenty missions sus-
taines By IL - stations, LES cat sta
tons, I.52s places for stated preaching.
with "a average attendance OF sp.ooo
hearers There are 557 missionaries,
incIadsng physicians and women; s.ESs
nasiye lzbo-~rx 81 churches, with al
SO uern hers; II theological summaries