The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The first Presbyterian general a.
sembly met ut Philadelphia in 1859.
No less than 1901 young women
are attending the several colleges in this
country.
-Forty-one thousand copies of the
Scriptures in the Turkish language have
been distributed among the Musselmans.
President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity. has quietly nipped in the bud the
plan to revive the game o. football at
that institution.
The whole number of communi-
cants in the Presbyterian Church in
1876 was 500; in 1884-85. 644.-
O25-a net increase of los, 815, or GOT
per cent in ten years.
There is reported to be one man in
the Freshman class at Yale who is the
eldest of nine brothers. all of whom in
tend to go through that college.
"A new technical school has been
established in Springfield, Mass.-the
first of its kind in the country, or, in
deed, in the world. It is . School of
Christian Workers. Boston Journal.
Canon Farrar, in . lecture delivered
at Johns Hopkins University, put him.
self in line with those who protest
against making the study of ancient
languages the chief business of college
life.
Chorus choirs of male voices have
become the fashionable church music in
New York. There are six or seven
congregations which will begin this fall
their first experience in male choirs,
and the chorus of boys voices is increas-
ing in popularity.-M Y. Tribune.
"A professor of walking is said to
be Canadian institution which might
be imported with advantage to our
young ladies' seminaries. Tho profess
sor takes young laGies out on long
tramps and compels them to adopt q
free. swinging gait, and carry their
shoulders properly.-Chicago Times.
One Presbyterian Church. in Jor-
dan Springs, Kan, has only one MEM
Der. He is an elder. and the church is
reported as giving 81 to the Home Mis-
sion cause, 81 to the relief fund for aged
ministers, and IS cents to the expenses
of the Assembly. The pulpit is vacant.
Another church, in New York. has only
one member. but twenty Sunday-schOOl
children are repOrted.-&. Paul Press.
The Woman's Missionary Society
in Dakota cut the knot, deciding to have
but one missionary society, with the
same set of officers. but with q variety of
functions. One day it is foreign mis-
siOnary society, another day it is home
missionary organization; the same, only
for the time facing another way.-N
Y. Examiner.
Rev. Dr.. c. r. Hale, Secretary OF
the Joint Commission of the General
Convention on Ecclesiastical Relations,
has paid visit to Norway and Sweden,
carrying with him, beside his own Gre
dentials. letters from Lambeth and from
the Anglo Continental Society. One of
his chief objects was to induce the max
ing of more adequate provision for the
religious needs of emigrants to the
United States.
The Congregationaliat records case
of heathenism at Springfield, Mass,
which is truly remarkable. 1t says: "a
little girl happened in neighbor's
house one morning at the time of family
prayers. She was asked to stay. and
accepting the invitation. remained an
interested participant in the proceedings.
When they all rose from kneeling she
startled the company with the exclama-
ton: i like this game first-rate. What
is the name of ite' All this is said to
have occurred under the shadow of Hope
Church."