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NUMBER 47.yt 800
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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The sColored Methodist Episcopal o ~
Church of America has four Bishops, I'D
1,729 preachers, 125, 900 members. Sum
day schools and members, 46,027.' u.s'''
-Ayoung man who wanted ito teach q
school in Kansas could not tell horizon
tai from perpendicular, and when asked ''s'
what circular was said it was sort of ca
fur-lined cloak.
=, The Old South Church in Boston
has voted TO pay to the family Of its de- gii
ceased pastor, DR.. Jacob M. Manning,
the full salary to next April and $4,000
per annum thereafter for six years. .
Boston Post. @ "a. .ss4. A.~f r-
- "A scholarship fund for the educa-
ton of clergymen's daughters has been 4
received by the Mills Seminary, of Cali ~
,fornia, from Mrs William E. Dodge, of
New York. 81 30 iz fa 81 - 3ldaOli
--Twosof themost accomplished kin-ssa
dergarten workers Of st, Louis have.
been invited by the Canadian Govern t
ment to introduce their SYSTEM in the r, 3
American dominions of the Queen.
= George Rose, better known under
the monde plume of Arthur SktecAley. {, Z
was for two years an Episcopalian cler 4
gyman. He afterwards went over to . 'ii
the Roman Church and became q lay -
man. Z .,..ss...e III
a "A school girl at Montrose, Pa, put
| her finger into a knotAhelef in her desk
at the Academy the other day, and was 4,
unable to pull it out again. The desk '
| had to he split. open with an AK before q
hthe youthful prisoner could be, e,liberated.
l. The Sultan has taken away from the
Franciscan monks at Jerusalem Q piece 9
of land that bad long been in their pos
| session, and has made present of it to
| the Gar Of Russia, who wishes to erect 8
a memorial chapel there to his mother.
I I'm Calcutta, the dedication of a Ze-
mana Home brings out the fact of very
/ gratifying progress in female education.
the non-C Christian females who can read
and write having doubled in thelast 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 1,000.9E IL
| > The Methodist Bishops held D meet +
ing in, New York q few days ago and
considered the propriety Of celebrating ''1a
the centennial of Methodism i'm 1884, y
| After full deliberation it was unanimous
\ ly resolved thata celebration Of the CEN
tehnial of the organization in 784iof the. iI y
Methodist Episcopal Church is desirable
| and that 1t is also desired that all other : y
ergauizations of American Methoaism sga
should unite in the celebration,
T. The overseers of Harvard College
have voted to revoke the degrees of any sB
| graduate who participates in any disso7, Il
| lutte behavior in commencement week. -
Their right to do 50 is questioned, theta
decisions in. somewhat similar cases. in
| dieating that when degrees have been . =
once conferred the diploma can not be ii
withheld. Lawyers say that the courts
would compel the college to desist, If ap- =
/ piled to on a writ OF QUO warranto by 9 z
graduate who had been punished in this
manner. -New Hauen Register. +. 80
/ -One of the most remarkable aGilia- 81 y
/ tions which has been known n,religious,
worship was hatrecently in PhiladeIphia
between Baptists and Jews The Rev. &
DR.. Magoun preached in the Roder-
Shalom synagogue to q mixed congre-
CATION composed partly of his own Broad,
Street congregation and partly Of the
regular attendants on the synagogue. IA
Rabbi JastroW offered prayers in Hebrew
and read from the Old Testament script
uresa DR. Magoun preached on David
and held up Judaism as the fountain of p.
revelation, containing the germs Of all =
thathas sbeensdeyelopedint the Christian X
/ religion. II PhilGdetpsfG Record
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