The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The pastor of the Universalist
Church in Bromfeld, Maine, is Miss
Annette &. Waltz.
The late John Magee. Jr., Wat
kins. N. Y, left $50, 1000 with which to
build five Protestant Episcopal churches.
The first was recently completed at
Antrim. fourishing mining town in
Tioga County.
The number of students at the
Vienna University is now 8. 457, exclu-
sive of 594 unattached students, or con-
siderably more than at the German Uni
versities of Berlin and Leipzig. Thir.
ty-fve are Americans.
Mary E. Ellen, NJ. D.. has been ap-
pointed Professor of Physiology and
Hygiene. and resident physician at
Vassar College. DR.. Allen is talented
young Philadelphia Quakeress, gradu.
ate of the Women's Medical College of
Pennsylvania, class of 1876.
At the meeting of the Methodist
Conference in London. James Calvert,
of Fiji, said that the greatest blot of the
Fijians was their cannibalism. One OF
the natives stated that he had feasted
on 872 different persons, and six OF
seven of the missionaries were eaten
when they first commenced their labors
in Fiji.
"A church is not to measure its sue.
cess by the accretion of new members,
says the Christian Union. That church
is most successful which cultivates most
assiduously the holiness of its individ.
ual members. We call church strong
as it counts its members by hundreds
and its wealth by millions. Christ calls
it strong as it is strong in faith and
rich in good works.
The first official Sunday school CEN
sus in the United States is now being
taken by the Government. Circulars
containing questions are sent to every
Superintendent. These cover the num-
Der of teachers and children, the ages
of scholars, the number. value and char.
acter of books in libraries, the property
owned, the money collected and the in
crease in attendance since 1870.
The rector of the Episcopal church
in Shrewsbury, N. j., reads from .
Bible which was printed in I'LL, and
presented to the church about 1852.
The church was founded in 1902. The
spire is surmounted by an iron crown
of George I'LL, which the soldiers in
the Revolution amused themselves with
shooting at, as may be seen by the bull.
let holes in the wooden ball below.
The President of Amherst College
has offered to the students the privi-
lege of selecting representatives in
whose hands will be left certain matters
of college administration now under
taken by the faculty. This body will
probably be composed of four seniors,
three Juniors. two sophomores and one
freshman, with member of the facul-
ty as presiding officer, if the classes &C.
cept the proposal, which seems doubt
full.
The Baptist ministers in Germany
complain that the Government has.
during the last year, carried out a reac-
tionary policy against them. Mr.. Jahr,
at Frankfort, has been fined for speak
ing at the grave of deceased member.
His Sunday school has been prohibited
because it meets at private houses, and
teachers and persons who open their
houses to Sunday-schools have been
threatened with fine if they disregard
the prohibition. The Church is trying
to secure the protection of a regular
house of worship of its own.