The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

In Liverpool recently $50 temper
ance sermons were preached on what
was observed as Temperance sun
day"
The damage done to the Methodist
Episcopal mission property in Toxic,
Japan, by the recent earthquake Is es-
timated at about 5000.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of the United States has 81, $50
members, according TO the latest
statistics.
Archbishop Villatte. the head Of
the new Polish Catholic church. is
about forty years of age. and was for Il
time a clergyman of the Episcopal
church.
The latest statistics show that in
Brooklyn there are 95 young peoples
societies, with a membership of about
10000, and ~ junior societies, number
ing about LOO members.
From this time on the North At
rican society will train its missiona-
ries in book or literary Arabic before
they leave England. A school for this
purpose will be esta blished.
-Dampness has made the Corinthian
capitals OF the church of the Madeleine
in Paris crumble, and recently pieces
of stone have fallen, endangering the
passers by. The capitals are TO be re-
moved and new ones put in their place.
Boston university established .
professorshipf for the comparative study
of religions as long ago as in 1873, and
now President Warren is asking for
500, 900 with which to found an Amer
lean Museum of all Religions" similar
to the Guimet Institution in Paris.
The Society of Mutual Helpers, Of
Boston, distributed last year 10000
bouquets in the tenement house dis
tricts of that city, to the sick and aged.
The friends in the country gather the
flowers and send them TO the city,
where they are distributed. Sixty
towns are interested in this work.
Argentine republic has made rapid
strides in education during the last
thirty years. Her system of public
schools is modelled on that of the
United States. There are 3,O56 schools,
or one for every / 200 inhabitants. Be-
sides normal and agricultural schools
there are 20 national colleges and 2
universities.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church, which is represented in Is
states. generally those OF the South
and Southwest, reports 164, l3s com
municants. OF these ~. 90 are found
in Tennessee and the next larger num-
Der, 2s, 364, in Texas. Missouri comes
third with 27.579 and Kentucky fourth,
with 1916. The total of contributions
raised last year was S676, 400. The adj
ditions TO membership were 16.s1s.
The number of congregations is 2,ssl,
of ministers los and of Presbyteries
126. Besides the ministers there are
296 licentiatos and 2j9 candidates-N.
y. Independent.
oh, il is hard to take TO heart the
lesson that snch deaths viii teach; but
let no man reject IL. for IL i one that
all must learC. and Is mighty uni
versal truth. When death strikes down
the innocent and young, for every fra
gle form from which he lets the pant
ing spirit free a hundred virtues rise.
in shapes of Mercy, Charity and Love,
to walk the world ami bless il. OF ev-
cry tear that sorrowing mortals shed
on such green graves, some good IS
born, some gentler nature comes. In
the destroyer's steps there spring up
bright creations that defy his power,
and his dark path becomes a way OF
light TO HEAVIER. Dickens.