The Iola register., 1883-01-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church OF America has four Bishops.
1,729 preachers, 125. 900 members. Sum
day schools and members, 6.027. H
"A young man who wanted to teach
sch4si in Kansas could not tell horizon.
tai from perpendicular, and when asked
what circular was said it was sort oi
fur-lined cloak.
The Old South Church in Boston
has voted to pay to the family Of its de-
ceased pastor, DR.. Jacob M. Manning,
the full salary to next April and S3.000
per annum thereafter for six years.
Boston Post.
"A scholarship fund for the educa-
ton of clergymen's daughters has been
received by the Mills Seminary, of Cali
fornia. from Mrs. William E. Dodge, Of
New York. ~
Two of the most accomplished kim
dergarten workers of st. Louis have
been invited by the Canadian Govern
ment to introduce their system in the
American dOminions of the Queen.
George Rose, better known under
the nom de plume of Arthur Sktechley,
was for two years an Episcopalian cler-
gyman. He afterwards "went over' to
the Roman Church and became a lay.
man. t-t-a
"A school girl at Montrose, Pa, put
her finger into knot-hole in her desk
at the Academy the other day, and was
unable to pull it out again. The desk
had to be split open with an ak before
the youthful prisoner could be liberated.
The Sultan has taken away from the
Franciscan monks at Jerusalem piece
of land that had long been in their pos
session, and has made present of it to
the Gar of Russia, who wishes to erect
memorial chapel there to his mother.
I'm Calcutta, the dedication of Ze.
mana Home brings out the fact of very
gratifying progress in female education,
the non-Christian females who can read
and write having doubled in the last five
years. 1t is said that there are now
more than 1000 Hindoo girls in mission
day-schools in Calcutta and its suburbs.
Indeed, they exceed the number of boys
in the schools and colleges by 1000.
The Methodist Bishops held meet
ing in New York few days ago and
considered the propriety of celebrating
the centennial of Methodism in 1884.
After full deliberation it was unanimous.
ly resolved that a celebration of the CEN
tennial of the organization in 1884 of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is desirable
and that it is also desired that all other
organizations of American Methodism
should unite in the celebration.
The overseers of Harvard College
have voted to revoke the degrees of any
graduate who participates in any dissO-
lutte behavior in commencement week.
Their right to do so is questioned, the
decisions in somewhat similar cases in
dicating that when degrees have been
once conferred the diploma can not be
withheld. Lawyers say that the courts
would compel the college to desist, if ap-
piled to on writ of quo warranto by q
graduate who had been punished in this
manner.-New Haven Register.
One of the most remarkable affilia-
tions which has been known in religious
worship was that recently in Philadelphia
between Baptists and Jews. The Rev.
DIR. MagouR preached in the Roder-
Shalom synagogue to mixed congre-
CATION composed partly of his own Broad
Street congregation, and partly of the
regular attendants on the synagogue.
Rabbi Jastrow offered prayers in Hebrew
and read from the Old Testament script
ures. DIR. Magoun preached on David.
and held up Judaism as the fountain Of
revelation, containing the germs of all
that has been developed into the Christian
religion.-Pniadsiptia Record.