The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-05-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist Conference recently
held in Philadelphia placed on record a
formal protest against Sunday camp
meetings.
The widow of J. E. B. Stuart, the
Confederate cavalry leader, has been
elected Principal of the Virginia Female
Institute at Staunton.
1t is a suggestive and striking fact
that the people of the Sandwich Islands
contribute annually for missionary pdr-
poses outside their territories $4,000.
Some churches average more than four
dollars per member. One church sus-
tainS five foreign missionaries.
The St. Louis Young Mems Chris
tan Association is enjoying such pros
perity as to need a new house. The
necessity of the Union Methodist Church
to sell was the Associations opportunity
to buy. The price paid was $4,000, a
part of which remains on mortgage.
In Persia the famine has been very
severe among the Christian families of
Oroomiah and the vicinity Missionary
Shedd writes that 1000 of these families
report scantiness of supplies, and that
500 are suffering dreadfully. The special
famine fund thus far amounts to $2,130.
The Missionary station at Oroomiah is
$500 in debt. Pecuniary assistance is
earnestly asked for.
The Baltimore School Board has
passed a resolution to try as an expert
ment the employment of colored teach
ers in the two colored public schools, at
the same time directing the Superin-
tendent of schools to note the relative
progress of the pupils in said schools
with those of similar schools in which
white teachers are employed. This ac-
ton gives great satisfaction to the color
ed people of the city.
The Rev. Theodore Monod, a prom
inent Protestant Pastor of Paris, has
been deputed by French missionary
society to visit the United States this
spring, to represent the present condi-
ton and needs of Protestanism in France,
and to obtain help for the evangelizatiOn
of Paris and other parts of that country.
M. Monod studied theology in the United
States.
Boston school-children are doubtless
in a state of blissful anticipation-the
younger ones, at least. Reading-bOOks
have been introduced by the committee
which consist of popular fairy tales, Sc
lected stories from the Arabian Nights,
and poetry for children. The volumes
have clear type and attractive engravings
just such books as will charm the eye
and mind of the young folks.
The oldest living Bishop of the Ro-
man Catholic Church is the Archbishop
of Tuam, who has just entered his nine
tieth year; and he still sails about the
wild isles in his diocese, carrying his
crozier and preaching in the native
tongue. He holds his crowded stations
on the hill-sides, and takes care of the
politics of his archiepiscopal province.
He is understood to be arranging his pa
pers and his literary notes for publica-
ton after his death.
Presbyterian clergymen are wanted
in Dakota. The Chairman of a Commit
tee on Supplies thus defines the require
ments: 90 The men wanted are such as
can preach acceptably to professional
men of decided mark; who are sagacious
enough to see wants and opportunities,
and wise enough to enlist men and
means for all emergencies that can arise.
Organizing and executive ability are
needed, with scholarly culture and evan
gelistic zeal.n Nothing is said about
salaries, however, though the following
is sentence in the official advertisement:
L" To such the richest rewards are at
hand-if successful labor is q pleasure,
grand opportunities and aspiration, and
rapid results of effort put forth a COM
pensation." Address the Rev. D. G.
Lyon, St. Paul, MINI.