The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Church bells are going out of use
in every considerable American city,
". 7. Herald.
According to the returns for 1888.
recently issued, there were in Ireland
at the close OF that year 1852 schools
under the jurisdiction of the National
Educational Commission.
"A statue to John Harvard. the
founder OF Harvard College, is to be
erected in the memorial hall of the
college, but its likeness will not be that
of the original Harvard, because no one
knows how he looked Hartford Post.
-SiXty-nine years ago missionary
bore for the first time the standard of
Presby beyond the borders of
Indiana into the wildS of Missouri.
Now the Presbyterians report in the
region then opened, ten synods, LEO
ministers, 1000 churches, and 10000
communicates. Troy Times.
The Christadelphians, a peculiar
sect, an ofshoot from the Campbellites,
have a small church in Buffalo. They
hold that all the churches are tainted
with the evils of the RomiSh Church.
One member of their body is no higher
than another. They re :ect the doctrine
of the Immortality of the soul.-BufdtO
| Express.
The Bishop of Liverpool is helping
to solve the question: .'How to reach
the Masses He breaches in the open
air; in the great ship-building yards al
the noon intermisSiOn, and among tho
$4,000 carriers. with their wives, chill
dren and babies, and TO the men of the
great goods stations, oftentimes from
1000 to 5000 in one assembly.
There is an association in London,
Just year old, organized to place texts
of Scripture in the street cars and om-
nibuses. The street car routes alone
number more than 400, and it is esti-
mated that the passenger traffic, which
is steadily increasing, is 100000 an
nually. Texts have been placed in
fifty of the cars, at a cost of two dollars
and a half each for the year, and some
good results are claimed.
just think of it. During the past
wear the young ladies or Vassar College
ate 81, l5S pounds of meat, which cost
] ~I',0OO.O-, iIu beCu CO,'01 iu'tI - VI
milk, worth 54,644.05. They also made
away with IS, 0pounds of -four, 14,567
pounds of butter, 2,63S pounds of cOf-
fee, 1900 bushels of potatoes, $4,000
eggs, Sc, 200 CLANS. 249 bottles of
pickles, and vast quantities of other
food supplies. Pancakes are very
favorite dish, and griIdle ten feet
| long by three feet wide is used to bake
the ,, 100 pancakes that are consumed
at single b, ,eakfast. The milk used
at the college comes from dairy or
from 40 to 30 grade COWS, which are
kept on the college property. Y.
Sun.
Rev. Mr. Beecher's recent informal
address before the Storrs Agricultural
School ut Mansfield, Conn, contained
this pleasant reference to the Storrs
family: Il had learned something about
Mansfield through my friends the
StorrseS. Old DR.. StOrrs, of Braintree,
was one of my earliest memories, and
his genuine eloquence was the first that
really reused ami held me. His son is
my neighbor, DR.. Storrs. of Brooklyn.
Charles Storrs is my neighbor and
great friend of mine. And last, Au-
| gustus Storrs, here, is the treasurer of
my church. All my revenue is in his
hands. When he asked me to come to
| this place | knew too much OF human
| nature to refuse. Our income is from
$40. 900 to 500, ,0OO-it all passes through
his hands, and that stupid man never
stole cent of it."