The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-01-31
NUMBER Is.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

For the first time i'm twelve years
the school committee Of Boston will
meet with no women in its membership.
Boston Jou<nai
Rev. DR.. Shaw, of the Brick Pres
byterian Church in Rochester. N. r.,
preached his forty-fourth annual sermon
recently.
Philadelphia school-teachers COM
plain of their small salaries, which, they
claim, average only about sixty per cent.
of those paid in Boston and New York.
Mr. Moody, according to Cincin-
NATHAN, is the acid which, touching the
dormant alkali of the Christian spirit.
causes it to effervesce into a revival OF
religion.
One hundred years ago. Wednesday.
December "a, 1884, the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in the United States was
organized in Lovely Lane Chapel Bal
timorc.
Tennessee stands next to the nead
in the column of illiterate States, fact
which suggests to the people the neces-
sity of improving its present defective
school system. - Chicago Journal.
"A student at Wesleyan College re-
Gently described pillar of their audi
torium which had been wound with an
American flag, as barber's pole
''emblematic. he said, 'of the close
shave some of the graduates had to got
through"
The Board of Trustees Of Column
bian University, of Washington, at q
recent special meeting, upon the unani-
nous recommendation of the faculty Of
its medical department., decided to adj
nit women to study medicine in the in
stitution, with all the privileges OF
instruction accorded to the male stu
dents. - Washington Post.
Rev. DIR. Howard Henderson, OF the
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church.
of Jersey City, commits himself to Gre
| nation. In paper read before New
York Cremation Society, he said he had
made a study of the best means of dis
posing of the dead, and had come to
| the conclusion that the day was not far
distant when the retort will take the
place of the grave. He spoke Of tho
large amount of money expended in
monuments, flowers and funerals, and
characterized it as mockery.--N r.
/
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the
primate of all England, has an annual
| income of $4,000. in addition to Lam
beth Palace, his London or city resi-
dence. The Archbishop OF York, the
| primate of England, receives $50, 900 a
| year, besides two residences and a
| large household of officials. The tithes
of some of the other Bishops are: Lon
don, 100000; Durham, $35, 900; Win
chester, $35, 500; Ely, 1927, 800 and Bath,
Lincoln, Oxford, Salisbury and Worces-
| ter 1928, 900 each The Bishop of Sodor
and Man, who has neither cathedral
nor dean, gets $4,000 year for doing
nothing.
Quite a futter has been caused in
Protestant Episcopal Church circles in
| New York, by sermon delivered re-
Gently by Rev. X. Heber Newton, IN
which the preacher questioned the sanity
| of Christ, and made other equally
bold and radical assertions of a similar
| character In his sermon, Mr.. Newton,
in abiding to Christ as the prince OF
| idealists, said: "The last, worst doubt
that could come to me would be the
suspicion that this greatest of idealists
was carried off his feet by the tide OF
heavenly life that flooded his soul with
divine enthusiasm; that he lost his head
in the greatest mission ever trusted to
the child of man. ~. Y Sun.