The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCnVOL AND CHUkCHs
Protestant preaching is permitted
in over 1000 townships OF France.
The Western Methodist book agents
have decided to exclude patent medi-
cine advertisements from the papers
published under their direction.
Prominent Presbyterian clergymen
have assembled recently at Saratoga to
discuss the subject of educating Ger
man young men for the ministry.
Six years ago the New York Swed-
ish Lutheran Conference had only two
churches. Now it possesses sixteen.
and has appointed travelling mis-
sionary for the State of Connecticut.
The Thinkers, or Dunkards, in their
recent meeting in Ohio, passed resolu-
tons against Sunday schools. high
schools, revival meetings, paid minis
try. missionary plans or boards, money
soliciting or begging, and instrumental
music.
The Eastern German Baptist Con-
veution has just met in Pennsylvania
A project was discussed for uniting
with the Western German Baptist Con-
vention in q combined missionary work
among the Germans of the United
States and Canada.
The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan
Convention lately in session at Dan.
vile, Va, voted that the clergy should
recognize the fact that the negroes
within their parochial bounds are an
integral part of their parochial work
that must not be ignored or neglected.
"A "solid block of Methodism' is
what Methodists call Antioch Circuit in
Middle Tennessee, which occupies about
fifteen miles square, and has nearly
seven hundred members. In this whole
territory there is no other religious Or
ganization, and probably not more than
q dozen members of all other churches.
Chaplain McCabe, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Extension Society.
has q proposition for what he calls q
Frontier Fund, under which ten thous-
aud preachers shall raise or laymen
give ten dollars year each for ten
years to aid in building churches in the
far West, the money to be considered
as contributions to the Church Exten.
sion Fund.
Provincial meetings were held at
different places in England during the
sessions of the Methodist Ecumenical
Council. The one at Leeds considered
the history of Methodism in that city
and the means of securing cooperation
among the various branches of the
church so as most widely to extend It's
influence and usefulness among all
classes of the people.
The Society of Geneva, for the pur-
pose of promoting better observance
OF the Sabbath, has offered q prize for
the best essay on the subject, to be of
fifteen or twenty-five pages. 1t desires
the subject to be considered popularity
from the practical side, and to bear es-
pecially against public Sunday festivals
and protracted entertainments on Sat-
urday nights, and against anything that
may impose additional Sunday labor on
servants and workmen.
Young women have taken a re-
markable place in the late examinations
of the London University. The class
for mathematical honors had but three
members, one of them a girl, who took
the palm; girl also came out ahead for
English honors; and two of the four for
German honors were girls, who again
distanced their male rivals; one of
three, again, placed at the head for
pharmaceutical chemistry, was girl;
and Miss Prideaux was first in the
honors list for anatomy, coming from
the London School of Medicine for
Women, and beating both of her rivals
from Guys Hospital.