The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

IA Baptist church has been organized
1t Sans,a Fe, New Mexico, being the third
in that Territory.
There are in the Canadian Provinces
ninety-one Congregational churches, with
fifty-One pastors and $685. members.
Their church property is valued at $780,
600.
The venerable w. w. Corcoran, who
never wearies in good works, has given
to Columbian University valuable site
in Washington for its college, law school
and scientific school.
The Roman Catholics are making
determined efforts to convert the people
of Central Africa to their faith. Already
more than fifty missionaries have gone
from Algeria to Equatorial Africa, and
the Pope is urging greater efforts.
Harriet Beecher Stowe son Charles
was ordained and installed pastor of the
Saco (Me.) Congregational Church. the
other day, though four of the five dea-
cons and thirty-three members protested
that he lacked piety and was theological
ly loose.
The total receipts of the American
Board for the last financial year were
$691,245. Of this sum S257,907 was
expended for the four missions in Turkey;
$1O3, 78l for three missions in India;
S89, 642 for the two missions in China;
SAG, 1924 for Japan and $51, 276 for three
missions in Africa.
The South Congregational Sunday
School of New Britain, Conn.,, pays its
Superintendent regular salary, and he
devotes his whole time to the interests
of the school, visiting families, looking
after absent scholars, etc. 1t is the
largest Protestant Sunday School in the
State, and numbers about 1000 men,
beers.
The ordinary country school-house is
as ill-adapted for the use to which it is
put to as anything could be. The Super
intendent of Public Instruction in Wis
consin has done good service for his
State in preparing and sending out cir
cular containing designs for buildings,
of various prices, with practical sugges-
tons as to ventilation, lighting, etc.
AS the result of his last years work
in China, DR.. Nevins counts one hundred
villages which have become centres of
Christian work, and in these are thirty
churches. His parish extends over some
300 miles of country, in which he is the
only evangelist employed by the board,
although the number of conversions have
increased twenty per cent. in the last few
years. There are still whole provinces,
containing an average of about 1900, 900
inhabitants unentered by missionaries.
During 1881 the missionaries of the
American Sunday-School Union in the
Northwest established 547 new Sunday
schools, mostly in pioneer settlements,
aided ,04i old schools, 591 in all, hav-
ing 5,756 teachers and 1884 scholars.
They placed in these settlements pure
and healthful literature. valued at 80, POL;
distributed 5, 142 Bibles and Testaments,
visited 9, 1873 families, conducted 2,185
religious services, organized and attended
112 conventions for the instruction of
teachers, and travelled 119, IA miles.
The final abandonment by DR.. Tai
madge, of Brooklyn, of the so-called
free-pew system, and the substitution of
the plan of selling the choice of seats at
q fixed rental at auction, first introduced,
we believe, by Plymouth Church, must
be regarded as a significant testimony
against the experiment of maintaining
a free seat church by the contributions Of
attendants. The method has long since
been abandoned by the Roman Catholic
metropolitan churches, whose pew doors
open only to renters by year or the day;
it is generally going out of vogue with
the Christian Union.