Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-09-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

DR.. Willis G. Craig has accepted the
chair of Ecclesiastical History in the
Theological Seminary OF the Northwest
to which he was elected. and will be
present ut the opening of the next ses-
sion.
The Archbishop of Taurida, which
See includes the Crimea, who was for
many years head of Russian missions in
China. and prepared some valuable
works in the Chinese, is dead at an adj
vanced age.
One of James Freeman Clarkc's
parishioners, a lady of great wealth,
sent him 4 present of 5000 on the eve
of his departure for Europe. He is now
more than seventy years of are, and
hopes to preach until he is seventy-iive.
Socrates. Aristotle, Gnosticism,
Platonism, Christian Mysticism, Philos-
ophy of the Bagavad Gita and Fichte's
works, are the subjects of some of the
lectures to he delivered before the Con-
cord school of philosophy next summer
In the great work of foreign mis-
siOns. the Noravian Church is the pio-
ncer of the Protestant churches. 1t
sent its first missionaries to St. Thomas,
in the West Indies, in 1872. The 150th
anniversary of this event is to be cele-
brated on August u.
"A Sunday-closing movement has
been started in Russia under the
auspices of Archdeacon Bogoyavlensky.
Most Of the clerks in St. Petersburg
have signed petition to the Emperor
asking him to enforce cessation of all
mercantile business on Sunday.
The new French version of the
Bible, by Prof. SECOND, has attained
great success, and copy of the New
Testament at three half pence has been
published, of which 100000 were sold
of the first edition. OF the second 5O,-
600 copies were sold in three weeks.
"A flood OF manuscripts has been
pouring into Rome in response to an
offer of four gold medals as rrizes for
the best eulOgium upon Leo XIII. They
were reduced by selection to seven for
final decision. Two of the winners are
American, and not one Italian. The
Pope has, however, rewarded all with
the decoration of his benediction.
The American Baptist missionaries
speak well of the Telugu converts. In
a recent letter one of these missionaries
says: "Three years have passed since
then-years of persecution and trial to
a great many of the new converts and
OF sitting the chaff from the wheat
Some chaff has been blown out, but
only enough to show the genuineness of
what remains Nowhere are there any
indications of collapse. unless it is in
the interest of friends at home During
the last year 2.757 were baptized, and
about 1890 so far this year-a number
which will probably reach 1000 before
the end of the year, and perhaps more
than that. In fact, there is no one who
can tell what might not be done if the
missionary force were what it ought to
be in this field. have baptized with
my own hands converts who have come
from villages ninety to one hundred
miles distant, and who came all that
distance on foot, through mud and rain,
entirely at their own expense, merely
for the sake of being baptized Out of
two hundred candidates for baptism
there are seldom more than ten from any
one village. often only one or two: and
they tell of great numbers at home who
are believing, but who cannot come so
far"