Fair play., 1882-12-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

The American Tract Society is ciru-
lating religious pamphlets in l46 Lam
guageS.
The New English Wesleyan Confer
ence minutes show that that body has
! 509. 367 members. 81 on trial. and
| 2.l24 ministers. with :9S on trial. and
| 3il supernumerarics.
In the high school of Dedham.
Mass. the experiment is being made Of
using daily newspapers instead OF text
books in the reading class. The princi-
pal thinks that the plan is successful.
Miss Emily Smith. Of Proyincetown.
| a graduate al the Boston School of Ora
tory. is to take charge Of the Depart
ment Of elocution and oratory in col
lege of music al Cincinnati. ..
In Rochester, \. Y, the Board of
Education has ordered the study OF in
tellectuai arithmetic" 10 be dropped
from the third grade of the school and
some textbook on language and cOmpo-
sition 10 be substituted.
The Baptists had planned general
Bible Convention. which WAS to have
met at Saratoga in November. But the
plans failed for lack of enthusiasm. and
the convention has been postponed un-
I'll next May Chicago Tribuae.
The new plan of synod organization
in the Presbyterian Church. making
each synod co-extensive with the State.
has proved 4 failure in New York. for
the reason that il was overloaded with
delegates who had legal right to be
presently. L. Times.
The Interior laments that the prac-
lice of memorizing the Scriptures has pas
sed away from the Sabbath-schools. and it
is now 4 rare thing 10 find Sunday school
teachers who can recite from memory a
single chapter in the life of Christ, or
even one Of the Plains.
The Rev. 4. ID. Mayo. reports that
as fast Is education lays its hand upon
the Southern children, black or white.
they begin to draw near 20 each other,
and that there is no doubt that at
together in unity. The present attitude
OF the higher classes is favorable to this
change. Mr.. MAYO said that although
many Of the children tn whom he spoke
were descendants Of the leaders in the
Confederacy, he found the foriasr free
from the bias of their fathers.
D. Miss Rebecca Husey died rs long
ago As l1li. and by her will bequea,hed
a sum Of fl 900 for. rs she quantity ex-
pressed it, 1.-THE redemption of slaves. if
il may be effected, or else To the ease
ment OF their slavery" The fund was
allowed Ia accumulate until 1868. when
it amounted to the large sum of f23. isl.
and it was then decided that the princi-
pal should be- kept intact, and the annual
interest equally divided between ST. He
lena and Lagos. to be expended for the
benefit of the slave class The trustees
at Lagos allowed their share to accumu-
late until they could establish an insti-
tuition for the industrial training of BOYS
rescued from slavery. and such school
has just been opened. 10 years having
elapsed since the beIues. was made.
A steamer whose hull and machin-
cry weigh only six tons has been built for |
the British Baptist Society, who intend |
it for services in the upper regions of |
the Congo. 1t is appropriately named |
Peace" Many ingenious devices have |
been rtSorted 10 in il, construction. with |
view to good speed. very light draught
and capability of being transported over |
land. The boat, built in seven water |
tight compartments. can be taken to |
pieces, aud the total number of pieces, |
neither of which will be too heavy for a /
man TO carry. number 800. 1t will be !
sent to the mouth of the Congo. and there |
the pieces will be carried by 500 men a |
distance of 800 miles up to Stanley pool.
where the boat will be reconstructed. /, |
is 4 gift to the missionary society from |
Mr.. Rober, Arlington. Of Leeds.-N |
y. Examiner. /