Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The General Assembly Of the Pres
byterian Church (Southern) will meet at
Charleston, May 20.
Moody and Sankey are ON an ex-
tended tour for the purpose of obtaining
needed rest. They have journeyed as
far as Texas, and will soon push toward
New Mexico.
of the 1900 Methodist Episcopal
minister's in this country there are, ac-
cording tothe Methodist, only eleven who
have blots on their names, and three of
Fthese have been condemned unjustly.
The air must have been very bad in
a certain unventilated church, when the
minister said to the sexton that if such
foul air were used for blowing the organ
1T would put the instrument out of tune.
Wisconsin spent 80. 513. SOL S3 on her
public schools last year. OF the school
population of 483, 453, 293, 296 attended
school. leaving nearly 100000 children
without instruction.
"A Lutheran preacher of eminence in
Berlin complained in recent sermon
that One-third of the scholars in the
higher schools of that capital are Jews,
though they form only five per cent. of
the population.
Nov that the subscri ptions necessary
to pay the debts of the Southern Meth
odist Publishing house at Nashville have
all been taken in, the agent has begun
Ithe work of turning them into available
cash. The total amount is 5000, 900, and
lit is to be hoped that there will not be
much shrinkage.
MIR. Weatherwax, the new State As
SCISSOR in New York, says that there is
more property under church control in
the State than is necessary for strictly
religious purposes, and that he does not
see why this surplus wealth should be
exempt from sustaining its share of the
public burden.
Germany spends more money per
capita for school education than either
England, Austria-Hungary, France,
Spain, Italy or Russia. The expendi-
sture is about 20 cents a head of the pop
ulation; England's, about A cents; Aus
ttria-Hungary' s, about 40 cents; Frances,
about So cents; Spain's, about 32 cents;
Italy's about 90 cents, and Russia's S, about
Is cents.
A Methodist gentleman who owned
farm of one hundred and twenty-five
acres near Rhinebeck. N. Y, has given
it for the purpose of building on it a
number, of cottage homes for WORKOUT
Methodist preachers. The cottages are
to be. as coy as possible, thus making
the old gentlemen who are to live in
them far more comfortable than if they
were lodged in the little square rooms of
a seven-story asylum in the suburbs of
some great city.
The Christians in Armenia appeal
to the civilized nations of the world to
save them from threatened extermina-
ton at the hands of the Turks. They
are denied the rights of citizenship, their
lands are wrested from them on trifiing
pretcnces, their homes are ravaged, and
their women treated with the utmost
brutality. For all this there is no re-
dress. The Turks call them christian
dogs" and treat them accordingly.
Since the Crimean war the Christian
population of A rmenia has been reduced
>one-fourth, and in some of the cities and
towns there are no Christians left.
Mr.. Ell. Kerry, a native of Samaria,
educated in England, and a returned
'u1aisaionary ply sIc1an, discovereu Syna-
suogue Record, kept at ancient Sychar,
that reaches back, hundreds of years be-
fore Christ. He learned that the priest
On searching the Record for some posi-
BILE note of Jesus visit, he found instead
the following important testimony to his
scrucifiXion: In the nineteenth year of
my priesthood, and the 4,2S1st year of
the world, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Mary, was crucified at Jerusalem"