The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

"A woman ct North Danville, Va.
gave to the building Of a-local church
until her last dollar was expended. and
then, work having come to . stop, pres
ented the church fund with her horse
and buggy.
The students of science in Indiana
propose to form q rtate Academy of
Science. similar in its scope to the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement Ut
Science.-Indianapolis Manual.
"A writer in the Church Eclectic OBJ
jects 20 ''.he name of Protestant Epis-
cOpar means Gas our mission
aries who have labored to translate it
into Chinese tell us) The contradictory
bishops church.
Many strange religions are being
introduced into CalifOrnia. among them
HindoO TheOsophy and Chinese Confu-
clanism. The growth of Spiritualism
there IS 50 rapid as to challenge atten-
ton. A local paper, noting these facts,
says it is about time for the Christian
churches 70 wake up.-Son Froncisc0
CdH
The total contributions of the forty
churches of the New York Presbytery,
with their 1863 commandments, the
past year were $S48, 442.71. of which
$oS, 149 was for home and $685. for
foreign missions. S442, O25.for cOngrega-
tiOnal. and $67. 23S for miscellaneous
purposes. IN. Y. tribune.
If teachers wish to leave a notable
impress upon the schools in which they
are now working, we know of no way
more suitable than doing something to
improve the generally bleak and unat-
tractive appearance of school buildings
and school yards. Educational Weekly.
Religious ceremonies at Mecca this
year have been on scale of unusual
magnificence. The silk covering for
the kaaba which the Sultan sent this
year has been valued at S75, 600, and
that sent by the Khedive for the same
purpose at S6O.OO0. Both are black
MORE. richly embroidered in gold, and
SO large that each of them covers en-
tirely the whole Kaaba.
Miss Mary 1. Danforth, who has re-
signed her position in the Winthrop
School. in Boston. had served there
forty-One continuous years. The Trans
c'ipt says: MANY will remember Pc
cuniary assistance literally bestowed
from her limited means, whereby their
families have been aided that their chill
dren might be continued in school"
-''In two particulars" says the Har-
ca'd Crimson, Harvard NAV unques-
tionably claim superiority over ali other
colleges in America, in her library and
in her gymnasium. Yet. strange to say.
OF no two things do Harvard men seem
less appreciative. The gymnasium ard
library are both used by large number
of men. but not by as many men as
ought TO use Them"
There was something pathetic in the
talk of Rev. o. T. Walker at meeting
of BAPTIST clergymen in New Haven.
Conn.,. few days ago. His appeal was
for IN educated ministry. His own short
cOmings. he said, had made the neces-
sity of thorough intellectual discipline
The time had changed since
his youth. He was raised in North
where you can walk mile
after mile OF stones without touching
the ground, and yet where they raise
good corn. In his day the farmers used
to tell time by the stars. for the days
were not long enough to finish work by
the sun. Not having means. he had to
walk from Albany to Hamilton College
"a distance of 225 miles-and then
walk back. His fight for an education
was long, hard, and only partially sue
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