Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-11-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Brahmin's faith was thus called
because 1t was supposed to be origin
ated by Brahma-
One hundred and twenty-one of the
l39 missionary societies of the world
are supported by the Anglo-Saxon race.
Compulsory attendance at school
is to be tried as an experiment in the
Russian governments of Kharkoff, Pol.
tava, Kursk. and Volonetz.
The value of all property used for
educational purposes in the United
States is placed at 5000, 600. 600; the pub
lie school property alone is valued at
500. 900, 600.
A ritualist Church of England cler-
gyman in Cardiff has publicly asserted
that the doctrine of the immaculate
conception of the Virgin is necessary
complement of the Christian dispensa-
tion.
-Unoccupied mission territory to
the extent of 1000, 900 square miles
still exists in Central Africa, an area
larger than the whole of Europe, says
Rev. George Greenfell of the Baptist
Congo Mission.
Among various schemes success
fully carried out by a Christian En-
deavor society in Atlanta, Ga, are the
sustaining of free dispensary, a BIZ
bic training class and the raising of
special flowers by each member of the
flower committee.
The Waldenses, religious sect,
were, it is believed, named from the Ger
man word Walden, "a forest" though
some think that the derivation is to
be found in Valois, a province where
they predominated. The former is gen.
orally preferred, as their religious
meetings were held in the woods.
"A new heretical sect has been dis
covered in Russia 1t is known as
1.-The Pilgrims or "Wanderers, and
numbers thousands in Tomslz and 9TH
er Siberian governments. Their mode
of life is copied from the primitive
Christians; they believe that the reign
of antichrist is at hand, and give that
asstheir reason for retiring to Siberia,
for, when the archfiend comes the Or
thodox church and the bureaucracy of
the government will be the first to fall
into his power.
All the French authorized male re-
ligious orders have informed the Arch
bishops of Rheims and Paris they in
tend to pay the new tax imposed by
the government on monastic property.
They hold that, having to choose be-
tween compliance and passive resist
ance, the moral necessity does not ex-
ist that would justify the latter course.
They thus take the same ground as
the bishop of Beauvais, who recently
came near being accommodated for
nrging compliance with the law.
The Austrian universities, in which
the German language is used as me-
dium of instruction, this term have a
total teaching force of 73s and an at
tendance of 1909, distributed as fol-
lows: $50 in the theological depart
ment, 3, is2 in the law. 5,7i0 in the med
ical, and 1,107 in the philosophical
Vienna reports 5,30S students; Gratz,
1,426; Prague, l.1O5; Innsbruck, SCI;
Czernowitz, 3O6. The technical schools
for German Austria have a teaching
force of - and an attendance of LIS,
Vienna having l.lO7; Prague, 253;
Brunn. 9l7: Gratz, l9S.
American students have long been
admitted to the higher courses of in
struciion in France without being able
TO obtain degrees unless they had al
ready French bachelors degree. A
movement is under way to admit TO
the higher degrees graduates of for
eign universities OF good standing. like
Harvard and Yale. as is done in the
universities of Germany