The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The agricultural colleges are de-
servedly in public favor. They should
be independent in every Way. T. In
dependent.
The English Methodists have raised
a fund of 100000 for carrying the
Gospel to the most abandoned districts
i. the worlds metropolis.
Miss Irving, Washington Irving's
niece, proposes to give the next gradu-
ating class at Princeton College a slip
of Ivy from one planted by the author
himself, and brought by him from Alb
botsford.-Harper's Bazar.
The parish church at Stratford-on-
Avon, which is Shakespeare burial
place, is to be renovated and restored.
all its historical features being pre-
served. The movement of removing
the poets bones seems 10 have subsidized.
The Bishop of LichGe!d, DR.. Macla-
gan, in his speech at the recent ses-
sional opening of the Kings College,
London, classes for women, spoke out
clearly and distinctly as to the right OF
every woman to avail herself OF every
chance of obtaining the highest educa-
ton possible
Bishop Isaac W.Wilev. of the Meth
Odist Episcopal Church, who died verY
suddenly in FGh Chau, China, was
making an Episcopal tour of the AS;atic
missions of his church. in which he felt
a great interest, particularly in China,
where he had served as a missionary.
He was elected Bishop in 1872, at the
age Of forty-seven.
Hon. Frederick t. FrclinghuyserH
United States Secretary OF State, has
been elected President of the American
Bible Society. in the place of the late 5.
Wells Williams, LID. Mr.. Freling
Euyscn is the nephew and adopted sol
OF a former president Is the society,
Hon. The9sore frelinghnysen. He is a
member cNhe Reformed Church.
Rev. ". N. Patterson, of the
Southern Methodist Mexico mission.
writes that the new mission in Morelia,
NeXico. IS prospecting. with a congrega-
tion of from five to six hundred persons.
The industrial colleges in the city O!
Mexico the girls under Miss Halloran,
and the boys under Professor Trujello,
are doing better than ever before. The
work in the Guadalaiara district is adj
vancing, and there have been several
conversions
The Church Standard says: Let
parents beware what they say about the
sermon or the preacher before Their
children, in whose hearts the Word 81
God may be seeking a Judgment. Why
pray in the morning for the conversion
Of sinners, and then, by cold criticism Of
the sermon, neutral;Ze the very means
by which it pieases God to save?
ThoughtleSs comments at the dinner
table will do this far more eticctually
than all the profanity the children hear
as they pass the drinking saloons on
their way to school.
The number OF pupils attending the
public schools of the State of South
Carolina during the past year was
185, 6l9. The eagerness Of the colored
people TO secure an education for their
children is phenomenal. The Morris
Street School for coiorri children in
Charleston IS the largest in the State,
containing more than l ,4C0 pupils. The
school is divided into three depart
ments, grammar, intermediate and
primary, and is governed by Princi-
pal, Vice Principal and twentv-four
assistants. the latter being ladies. The !
stat are all white, and are IA
tivcs of Charleston. !