The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A recent revival in the William
Jewell College at Liberty, Mo-, Baptist
institution, resulted in the conversion of
twenty-five students.
The Rev. DR.. Cobb, the new secre-
tary of the American Congregational
Union, says that 800. 900 must be raised
for the work of the Union this year, and
calls on all Congregational churches to
help him.
The net profit of the New York Book
Concern of the Methodist Episcopal
Church was $69,064, and of the Western
Concern S25. 466, a total of 1874, $50 du-
ring the last year. This large property
trust is wisely administered.
Miss Campbell, an English lady,
called the "Queen of Corsica" has built
church at Ajaccio, and rules her chap
lain with almost feudal tyranny. If the
sermon is too long a large watch is
drawn out of her pocket and held over
her head until conclusion is put to the
irksOme discourse; to the amusement of
the congregation and the discomfort of
the divine.
Teachers all over the country who
have used the Longfellow Leaflets and
Holmes Leaflets, compiled by Miss jose
phine E. Hodgdon, will be glad to learn
that series of Whittier Leaflets is now
ready. The numerous calls for them
which have already been received by the
publishers indicate that they will be no
less popular than their predecessors
Chicago Tribune.
Professor Blake, the eminent
Scotch theologian, wrote after the COM
pletion of Moody and Sankey's two
months in Edinburgh: ''The very inf
del has had to own that Moody travels
in the footsteps of his Master, and that
no other force in the world, least of all
the force of scepticism, ever shows such
q spirit or engages in such labors of
love-"
The following shows the number OF
pupils enrolled last year in ten of our
leading cities, and the cost per capita
for their education: New. York, 267, 944
pupils, $10.35 cost per capita; Chicago,
1862, 1857; Boston, 5O,543, 1928. is;
St. Louis, 47,O30, $11.66; Cincinnati,
So, $50, $21.O7; San Francisco, 4O,187,
S18.45; Pittsburgh, "a, 235, $13.76; Buff
falo, S,6O6, S16 80; Washington, 26, 419,
$18.17; Newark, N. j., 1896, $40. 40;
Detroit, 1919, S12.36.-N Y. Herald.
That was pleasant way IN which
a newly-settled Methodist minister dis
armed the criticism of the people in the
congregation to which he had been sent.
Instead of getting angry about it or
complaining that they had hurt his feel
ings, he remarked from the pulpit, 81
hear that you say l am not much of a
preacher; well, l know it; and l know
that if 1 could preach first rate wouldn't
have been sent here to preach to such
lot of ignoramuses as YOU" chicago
Herald.
Touching the decline of infant bap-
tism, the Journal and Messenger states of
New York Presbyterian churches: IS In
DR.. John Halls church, with member
ship of 1,73O, there were but twenty-one
babies baptised last year. In DR.. How
ard CroSby's, with !, 1884 members, there
were only seventeen. DIR. Bevan's Brick
Church has 1000 members, but only
twenty-three infants were dedicated in
baptism. In DIR. Robinson's Memorial
Church, $40 members could show only
eight. In Mr.. Talmage's church, num-
bering 2,471, only forty-nine infants
were baptised. DR.. Cuyler bapt;sed
thirty-one infants in a MEMBERSHIP of
1,761. DR.. Ludlow, with 37S members.
reports six, DR.. Van Dyke, with 571.
report none.