Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-08-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The Bible is translated into thirty
TWO African languages. in eight of which
the Whole OF the Scriptures are pab-
liShcd.
Atlanta men are working rp a
Southern Chadtauqua, or central camp
meeting ground, for all the benevolent
institutions of the South.
japan is thoroughly awake in the
matter of education. She has established
schools all through the country, and at
the University of Toxic there are now
200 students
Good old Mrs Barton, of New
Haven, has been foy nearly fifty wears
the teacher of Il large and important
Bible class. A few days ago her class
met to celebrate her eighlieth birthday.
-Aow Htren R|JiSicr
The National Societies of the Bap-
tist denomination hold their anniversa-
r:es in New York. May 2i-3l. These
societies are the Foreign Missionary
Union, the Home Mission Society and
the Publication Society
Mrs. George Clinton Smith, of
Springfield, H., has undertaken the
compilation OF n woman hymn-book.
She asks that all women who have writ
ten hymns that have been published con-
FER with thicago Tribune.
-Rev. DIR. Magoun, of Philadelphia,
told his New York brethren the other
day that he started in life us bricklayer.
and that when he laid down the trowel
| and took up the clerical pen. he secured
the first brick he had ever laid, convert
ed it into an inkstand, and had used it
ever since.
The students of the University of
Missouri disliked Professor Lowry and
asked for his removal. This request was
refused, as they gave no good reason
why it should be granted. Three hun
dred OF them burned the Professor in
eiiigy, and then marched round his res
idence singing lang Tom Lowry on
sour apple tree" ."-Caicago Herald.
- MIR. Barring Gould represents the re-
ligious condition of Germany as not very
encouraging. He says that of the l50,-
900 inhabitants of Hamburg only 5000
attend worship, and there are only five
parish churches. In Berlin there are
100000 Protestarts, but only l1,90O at
tend church on Sundays. The church
attendance in Darnstadt is only three
per cent. Throughout Germany only
fourteen out of ono hundred persons at
tend any kind of religious service.
English missionaries have begun to
work i'll the peninsula of Corea-a land
from which almost all Europeans have
heretofore been jealously excluded. The
area of Corea is 90. 900 sullare miles and
the population about 10O00,000 souls.
The language is quite unlike both Chi
nese and japanese, and much difficulty
has been experienced in learning it.
Some nrnUrasS - = -
in this direction. and translation of the
New Testament has been begun'by a
Presbyterian missionary named Ross
Chicago Times
President Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity is this year delivering the course
OF Yale lectures on preaching He
states that the proportion of people who
attend church is diminishing. For this
he giyes number of reasons, some of
which are..yery diverse in character.
Among the reasons are skepticism.
cheap literature, and the practice Of
preaching old sermons. He also men,
tions the willingness of too many
churches to exist on supplies of strange
clergymen from Sunday to Sunday, in
stead of securing the services of regu-
lar pastor. To these he adds the un-
easincss of the present generation and
the lack of desire of hearing the steady
preaching of an old-fashoned gospel. -
(NicU1o Herald