The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-12-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Inc negroes OF Fort worth. lexas,
are to have the finest school-house In
the State. - Chicago Times.
Thousands of children lose health
and life from the poisoned air of school.
rooms every year.-N. y. Times.
There is lots of Christian work to
do at home as well as in India and
Africa. A Bible agent found $50 fami-
lies in Weakly County, Tenn, without
Bibles. x Chicago Inter Ocean.
The President of the Middlebury
College, Vermont, proposes to weigh
the boarders at the beginning and end
of every term. A record of the weights
will, it is supposed, establish the nutri.
tive value of the various foods used
Rutigrad Herald
Rev. II. A. Wcistale, pastor of the
Universalist Church at Erie, Pa, was
charged with heresy because he an.
nounced his disbelief in the Trinity
and refused to accept the Bible as au.
thority in all things. A committee oil
clergymen investigated the charge and
advised the minister to resign. He has
done so, but the majority Of his church
will not accept his resignation. and
have engaged him for another year.
N. Y. Sun. n
"A friend of the Church of England
writes to the London Times in favor oi
disestablishment, claiming that it would
be a gain to large number Of the
clergy. There is, he says, among the
clergy of the Established Church q
great amount of personal poverty.
Among this class are found many who
are hard working, efficient. scholarly
and intellectual. To such he thinks
disestablishment would be a blessing,
for purchase would cease and the peo-
pie would have voice in the election
of their pastor.
The annual meeting of the dele
gates anG representatives of Churches
of Christ in Great Britain and Ireland,
pleading for an unqualified return to
primitive Christianity in all ita purity
and simplicity. as given to mankind by
Christ and his Apostles, was held lately
at Wigan. The delegates and mem
bers of the churches assembled in this
conference disclaimed power to legis-
late for the churches at large, or to in
termeddle in tho affairs of any indi-
vidual church. The conference Is held
simply for cooperation in evangclistic
work. IN. Y. Herald. q
Various are the methods of initial
ing Harvard students into the secret
societies. All aspiring young men are
put through, for two weeks, series of
mental and humiliating drudgery and
subsection. One New Yorker is said to
have been lately made to sell papers
for week, dressed in striped b6d-tick-
ing. A well-dressed young man obedi-
emily dashed through Harvard Square,
holding out long-handled tin dipper,
and pathetically imploring. Won
YOU give me little something's Mt the
same time devoutly crossing himself.
Others were Enthusiastically dressed and
placarded, and sent on ridiculous
errands. The penalty of disobedience
is closing of the doors Of the societies
forever to the candidate. Boston Post
Gen. Robert Toombs has been bap-
tiled and admitted into the Methodist
Church by Bishop Pierce, Of Georgia.
A Georgia newspaper account OF the
event saws: AFTER the sermon, during
the ceremonies at the reception Of the
new member, scarcely dry eye could
have been found in the house. SO great
was the joy felt by the people when
they knew that our grand old citizen
had made peace with his God. Mr..
Gabriel Toombs has long been a Chris
tian, and the sight OF the pleasure on
his face, rs he stood by his brother dur
ing the ceremonies, is well worth ones
memory for years to come