The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-08-11
NUMBER IA.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Boston Trareiler advocates the
teaching of shorthand writing in the
public schools. sstqssf
The American Sunday School
Union organized 2, 1852 schools last year.
with 1896 teachers and S2. 749 scholars.
ut is proposed BY Catholic clergy in
Brazil to construct q floating church, to
be moved up and down the Amazon
river. slG M se "a S htAi
In Germany Baptists are not al-r
lowed to hold a Sunday-school under
that name. To make 1t lawful 1t must
be styled divine servicelfor children.
Teachers in the Alcorn Miss.
University disown the word .'colored, =
and inetruot their pupilsto say negro y
Alcorn IL mn institution for the exclusive
education Of TIE negroes. ---Chicago.
Times.
"A national Methodist camp ground
has been laid out on the Catskill Mount /
aims, and $4,000 worth of the lots
have already been sold to parties who
will erect cottages on them. The Sing
Sing camp ground has about outlived.
its usefulness. ~ Y Times.
Because he smokes and chews to-
bacco and sometimes rides on sunday
railroad trains, an otherwise accept
able minister was refused admission to
a Congregational association in Me-
hraska. In this vicinity motion to
exclude brother for these reasons
could not prevail. Denver Tribune.
President Eliot, Of Harvard, mailed
a.circular to.the parents and guardians
of all the undergraduates, inquiring
whether they had daily morning pray
ers I'M their own households. He re- /
ceived 74l replies. and five men out Of
every seven said they did not. Boston
Herald. Hss1 t
Superintendent Hinsdale, OF the
Cleveland schools, in q recent address
said that ssthe heart OF American edu-
cation beats below the high-school line, ~
and that ito strengthen and deepen the
education Of the pupils in the lower
grades the real common schools
stands first among the educational
needs Of the time. - Cleveland Leader.
The New York Observer says all
the action taken by the Presbyterian
churches In Scotland, England, Ireland
and America, this year, has been in the
iiiie vi uiioWitiy tiiV iuiiEuuui ctutcues
to do as they please In the, matter Of in
strumental music; and, with rare excep-
tions, the minority manifests DISPOSE
tion to accept the situation without fur
Their opposition.
"A delicate tribute was paid to the
value of Mt. Holyoke Seminary recently
by lady handing to one Of the trustees
$4,000 ITO be used in helping girls not
blessed with this worlds goods. !"
circumstances prcvcntcd' her from
securing an education there in her girl.
hood, but she has ever had deep IN
terest in an institution which she longed
TO enter, and hence this gift in aid Of
others situated as she once was. - Boston
Post.
The Methodist discipline says that
no woman ought to marry without the
consent of herparents. A minister asks
the official AdDocdtc ii this is manda.
tary. He is In reply instructed as fol-
lows: eve regard this passage as ad.
visory, containing q sound general
principle, but admitting Of exceptions
neither God, the State, nor nature puts
the control Of marriage absolutely In
the hands Of any one but the persons
themselves who make the vows and
must bear the burdens Of matrimony.'',