The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Seventh Day Adventists seem
10 be gaining in strength in New York
They have recently established missions
in New York, Buffalo, Albany and
Syracuse.
Bismarck will devote S12. 900 an
nual interest on his national birthday
gift to establishing charitable founda-
tons for students in universities for the
study of philology.
During the year there have been
three hundred additions to the Baptist
Church from the Cherokee Indians,
making the total membership 1000.
There are s. 900 members of the denomi-
nation in the Indian Territory.-SGHI
Francisco Call.
The Christian Advocate says: "a
reasonable estimate juStitieS the opinion
that more than 10000 persons have
profeSsed conversion during the past
three months and joined. or are intend
ing to join, the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Linear drawing has been intro
duced, by recent enactment, into all
the elementary schools of England. The
lucOIN IL lllsil VI lllio hAhu
| of drawing is useful in almost every
kind of trade or handicraft. Chicago
| Current.
The $500 required to complete
the $4,000 for the Parsonage Building
| Fund of the American Congregational
Union, for comfortable dwellings for
home missionaries on the Western
| frontier, was contributed by the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church, Brook
| lyn, after au appeal by Rev. DR.. Taylor,
of the Broadway Tabernacle.-M Y
| Times.
AT acolored church on the outskirts
of the city Sunday afternoon the preach
er notified the congregation that he
must have S. before he would preach.
| The hat was passed round, and when
returns were made $3.50 was in the
pot, whereupcn the preacher said he
must have $3.50 more before he would
preach. The hat was passed around
the second time and the 50 made up,
when the congregation was treated to
one CT the best efforts of the pastors
life.-ColumbiG Is. c.. Register.
The education of the Chinese in
San Francisco is problem that presents
manifold difficulties. The board of educa-
ton of that city have provided a school
room and teacher, but it is found that
the wealthier Cinnamon object to having
| their Youngsters associate with the Off
spring of the rabble, and they are op-
posed also to the cO-education of the
sexes. So far but one pupil is promised
for the new school, which entails an
expense of $40 month for rent and SIC
month for the teacher.
President Eliot says that, without
special extravaganza or fast living in
any way, Harvard student can easily
spend $500 year, and some get rid OF
much more. A calculation of the
average expense at twenty-five of the
principal colleges, according to the
statements of their respective catalogues
as to price of board, tuition, and gen.
eral expenses, shows that it is a trifle
over $500. An average college educa-
ton, then, costs $500 a year, or s., 000-
OF course, the thing can be done FOR
less than this. Tuition may be re-
mitted by the gaining of scholarship,
and young man who is determined to
support himself may do so in whole or
in part by teaching and other work.
Boston Journal.
Rev. Sam Jones, a Georgia evange-
list. has frequently been offered fifty
dollars day for his religious services,
but declines to make any contract for
his preaching. 1t is told of him that
urging a man to become Christian, he
said: Don't try to take on too much
steam at first. heard an engineer ask
his fireman at the depot Yesterday if he
had enough steam-not to reach Chatta-
nooga with, for the boiler couldn' have
held that much-not to reach Dalton,
for that much steam would have burst
the boiler-but if he had steam enough
to start with. Now you needn't try tc
put on enough steam to carry you
through to Heaven, but just enough to
start with. ~. Y Post.