The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-14
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THE Presbyterian Sunday School -
Conneautville, Crawford County, Pa--
awards Z handsome Easter bonnet every
month to the scholar who stands bestln
her class and church and Sunday School
attendance.
-GeorRia leads the Baptist hosts Of
this country in numbers, having z, 1896
churches and 238, 975 members. Texas
following nextin the number Of churches.
1925, and Virginia in membership. $685.
$50.
1t is one Of the unexplainable things.
of moral ethics how people decide so
promptly as to how little rain and bad
weather it takes to keep them away from.
prayer-meeting, and how much is re-
quired to keep them away from good
show.
The new revivalist, George o.
Barnes, calls himself the Mountain
Evangelical Of Kentucky" he claims
to be able not only to cure sin-sick souls
but disease-hardened bodies. For the
first he breaches and prays. The latter
he annoints and prays over.
"A Scotch writer who has been look
ing into the hand-books of worship OF
the Roman Catholic Church finds the
number of directions for spreading and
folding the hands, bowling, kneeling,
kissing the altar, etc., to be 800, slight
bows 81. profound bows g. Indianapo-
Us Sentinel.
There is movement in the Kentuc-
Ky Legislature for the equalization of the
distribution of the school fund between
the white and colored people of the State.
A discrimination is now made against
the colored people on the ground that
they pay taxes on only 81, 500. 900 worth
of property.-Denvcr Tribune.
1t is said that Leipzig, Germany,
has only seven churches, all poorly at
tended, no such thing as Sunday
school, and that q religious person is
there looked upon as curiosity. That
is the worst thing we have ever heard
said of Leipzig, and we are glad like :
record cannot truthfully be written of
any city in this country.-M Y. Erans-
liner.
The Rev. DR.. GLADDEN. thinks that
pupils should learn such things as will
tend to make them happy in whatever
calling they may choose. He suggests
that all possible ways should be devised
in school to awaken the minds of the
pupils and stimulate q thirst for knowl-
edge; and he suggests that boys should
be made to see that farm life is far from
lonely or uninteresting. They should
be taught natural history and miner
alogy.
Miss Anna Divers church in Will
loughby and Tompkins Avenues, Brook
lin, is in luck once moro. The church
is built on leased ground owned by two
parties, one of whom has decided all his
right, title and interest in the real estate
to the church for church purposes. The
other owns $4,000 in it yet, and now
Miss Oliver and her officials want the
friends of this enterprise to the number
of $4,000, which she believes it has in
Brooklyn and vicinity, to contribute one
dollar or more each toward clearing of
this Indebtedness. The property is val
ued Ut O.OOO, and this is all that il
due on it. Miss Oliver has been nearly
three years with the church, and this last
is reported to be the best in every sense.
The church building seats 1000, and il
well filed on Sabbath evenings, and has
fair audiences in the mornings. The Sum-
day-school numbers 200, with twenty.
seven teacherS.-N u Sun.