The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-01-24
NUMBER IA.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The agricultural colleges are de.
seryedly in public favor. They should
be independent in every way'-N- H. IN
dependent.
The English Methodists have raised
fund of 100000 for carrying tlc
Gospel to the most abandoned districts
in the worlds metropolis.
Miss Irving, Washington lrvings
niece, proposes to give the next gradu-
ating class at Princeton College slip
of ivy from one planted by the author
himself, and brought by him from Ao-
botsford. -Harper's Bazaar. /.
The parish church at Stratford-on-
Avon, which is Shakspeare's burial
place, is to be renovated and restored
all its historical features being pre-
served. The movement of removing
the poets bones seems to have subsidized.
The Bishop of Lich6eld, DR.. Macla-
gan, in his speech at the recent ses-
sional opening of the Kings College
London, classes for women, spoke ouy
clearly and distinctly as to the right OF
every woman to avail herself OF every
chance of obtaining the highest esiuca-
ton possible. /
Bishop Isaac w. Wiley, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, who died very
suddenly in Fuh Chau, China, was
making an Episcopal tour of the Asiatic
missions of his church, in which he felt
a great interest, particularly in China,
where he had served as missionary.
He was elected Bishop in 1872, ut the
age of forty-seven.
Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,
United States Secretary Of State, has
| been elected President of the American
| Bible Society, in the place Of the late ).
Wells Williams, LID. Mr.. Freling-
huysen is the nephew and adopted son
of a former president of the society
| Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. He Is
member of the Reformed Church.
Rev. w. NJ. Patterson, of the
Southern Methodist Mexico mission,
writes that the new mission in Moreliav
Mexico. is prospecting, with congrega-'
ton of from five to six hundred persons.
The industrial colleges in the city Of
Mexico, the girls under Miss Halloran,
and the boys under Professor Trujello,
| are doing better than ever before. The
| work in the Guadalajara 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 OF
| God may be seeking a Judgment. Why
pray in the morning for the conversion
| of sinners, and then, by cold criticism of
the sermon, neutralizc the very means
by which it pleases God to savep
| Thoughtless comments at the dinner
table will do this far more eflectually
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
1869. The eagerness Of the colorct
people to secure an education for their
| children is phenomenal. The Morris
Street School for colored children in
Charleston is the largest in the State,
containing more than l 400 pupils. The
school is divided into three depart
ments, grammar, intermediate and
primary, and is governed by Princi-
pal, Vice Principal and twenty-four
assistants. the latter being ladies. The
teaching staff are all white, and are ma
tiyes of Charleston.