The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Riyee Brethren have III
churches, valued at SSl, $50, and have .
membership of 8 4a7.
Prof. George J. Brush. of the Shelf
field scientific school of Yale university,
has just been elected a foreign member
of the Royal Geological society.
The brotherhood Of Andrew and
Philip, now more than six years old,
numbers 227 chapters, and has a MEM
bership of over $500, representing
twelve denominations.
-Woman's work in India has made
great progress. There are % I'll
women Observation-Disclosures and Eu-
rasian-in India. These have access to
40, 5I3 zenanas and have g., Ala girl pu-
pills in the mission schools.
The Vassar girls recently decided
on a uniform to be worn in the college,
to consist of a black serge dress with
cap, the cost of which would be So. SO.
Rich students and poo alike agreed
that distinctions of college dress should
cease, but the president of the institu-
ton, for reasons far from clear, has
vetoed the uniform.
France spends $50. 600. 900 a year for
primary educasion. The school pop
ulation between the ages of 8 to 12
years last year was 4,729,511. There is
a primary school for every AS inhabi-
tants. All religions are equal in the
eyes of the law. Any sect with 100, 600
adherents or more is entitled o share
in the school funds.
Seven years ago the Chicago Chris
tian Endeavor union was founded, with
IS societies. 1t now numbers $50 socie-
ties, with a membership of 1900. Its
great size has made it necessary to di-
vide it into 10 divisions, the presidents
of which, together with the general
officers of the union, constitute the
executive committee.
The Presbyterian churches of Aus
tralia and Tasmania have formed a fed
eration-the Federal assembly. At the
last meeting the chief business was the
consideration of a project for the or
ganic union of the churches of the six
colonies of New South Wales, Victoria,
QuCCHSidht, oOulA oAAof SoSSA
Australia and Tasmania.
AS a nation, Japan is a child of the
nineteenth century. The progress OF
Christianity in Japan is one of the
marvels of modern church history.
The first five years of faithful Christian
struggle produced one convert. In 1872
was organized the first Evangelical
church of eleven members. Now there
are sos churches with a membership OF
35, 534.-Interior.
AT Essen, Germany, in the archives
Of the Munsterkirche, a manuscript OF
the Psalms has been discovered, which,
if it belongs, as is believed, to the mid.
die of the ninth century, is the Oldest
Latin version of the Psalms we have.
1t contains nearly all the Psalms in
Latin in three columns, while in the
fourth column is a Greek text written
in Latin characters. The manuscript
seems to be written by the school of
scribes established by Charlemagne.
Sarah Bernhard has made a public
declaration of her religious faith. She
volunteered her assistance for a per-
Torrance given by a Catholic students
club to obtain money for the public
soup kitchens, ~whereupon La Libre
Parole attacked the club for allowing
a Jewess to aid a Christian charity.
The president declared that, while the
club was ready to receive aid for the
poor from Jew or heather, it happened
that Mime. Bernhardt was a Catholic.
She then stated that she was brought
up in a convent at Grandchamp, that
she was baptized there, and took the
first communion when she was eve
teen.