American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Russian stu Tents are now forbidden
to marry, and those who Violate this
rule are to be expelled from the uni
versity.
The Evangelical Ministers Asso-
citation of Boston anuounc that in Sep
TENDER next they will discuss the ques-
ton, "The Theater-Should the Aim
be to Exterminate or to Purify it?''
Miss Sarah Martin, Cherokee girl,
wrote a letter to Mr.. ID. L. Moody.
The letter was shown to wealthy
friend of Mr.. Moody, who was SO well
pleased with it that he placed $1,000 at
the disposal of Mr.. Moody for the con-
tinuation of Miss Martins education.
On a recent Sunday sermons on
temperance were preached in two hun
dred of the Episcopal churches of Lon
don. At the annual meeting of the
Church Temperance Society it was
stated that in twenty dioceses there are
now two hundred and nineteen thousand
members.
The Government of Liberia has
taken new and strong interest in edu-
cation. 1t has increased and improved
the common schools, and has voted a
sum of money for the college at Monro-
via, of which DIR. Edward Blyden, the
distinguished colored scholar and Pres
byterian divine, has been elected Presi-
dent
Tho increasing number of spelling
reforners in Europe and America has
created desire among the members of
the various associations for some means
of strengthening the bond of union.
There is some talk of an International
Congress of Spelling Reformers to be
held in London or on the Continent in
the autumn.
Mrs. James Brander, head mistress
of the Government Normal School in
Madras, India, 1908, has just been
appointed Inspectress of Schools for
Madras by the Secretary of State for
India. 1t is the first appointment of a
woman to this service, and was made at
the solicitation of the local Government
of Madras.
The Hibernian Wesleyan Missionary
Society reports in Ireland thirty-four
missionaries, twenty-nine mission sta
tions, three hundred and ninety-n;ne
chapels, twentyfour day school teach
erS, three thousand nine hundred and
four church members, and two thousand
and fifty-one scholars in Sunday schools.
The income of the Society the past year
was thirty-four thousand four hundred
and seyenty-five dollars.
-Sixty-six years ago Moses Howe
preached sermon in Dracut, Mass,
the first one of his life, but he was not
ordained as clergyman until 1916.
On Sunday afternoon, the I'd of this
May, at the Dracut Center Church, he
preached from the same text as on that
first occasion-Malachi w., IL. Not
withstanding his great age. he preached
for an hour and a quarter with much
Haverhill, N. H., in August, 1889.
For the sake of peace, the so-called
Ritualistic Church of St. Clement, in
Philadelphia, has consented to "put in
allegiance" such of its ceremonies as
have awakened the ire of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese and the Off
cial censure of the Bishop. At the
same time both the rector and the
vestry tell all concerned, in pretty
plain language. that they consider this
and impertinent, not to say unchristian.
I'm the Methodist General Confer
ence at Cincinnati are representatives
of the Mission Conference in India.
Among these representatives is Ram
Chandar Bose, an intelligent. layman.
When his name was called on the roll,
the conference showed its appreciation
OF him by the clapping of hands. He
sat silent and bewildered until he was
told that it was intended as a compli-
ment to him. "Oh," he said, Il see
that now; but in my country that dem
onstration would mean that was not
wanted, and that I must get out of the
place.ss