The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-14
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


I'm Washington Territory China
man has been made school-teacher for
the benefit of his countrymen.
The retirement is announced Of
Miss Mary E. Riddle, who for forty
years has been an eminent and success
full teacher in the schools OF bingham,
Massachusetts.
As the preachers and teachers OF
the future must come from the children
Of the present generation, how import
ant it becomes that the claims OF reii-
g:ous truth should be faithfully pressed
upon the youthful mind sin to-day
already walks tomorrow. ''-SGn Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The free kindergarten department
of the National w Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union is making rapid advance
ment, one lady having given nearly
81, ,O00,O0O for the establishment ana
maintenance of these institutions in the
State of Massachusetts. Boston Jour
nal.
If the Northern and Southern Pres
byterialn churches were united there
| would be church extending to every
bart of the country, with 8, 475 churches,
/ 6,621 ministers and 800, ,551 members.
The income of these Presbyterian bodies
amounts to very nearly $12, ,OOO, ,OO0.-,
United Presbyterian-
The recent Methodist Sunday-school
Assembly in Kansas has chosen Topeka
as its place of assembling for the next
ten years, and tabernacle, normal
halls, boarding halls, etc, are to be
erected at once A school of theology
was created and faculty elected with
DR.. James Marvin as Dean.
| Rev. Chow Ju Tien, the first Budd-
hist priest who ever visited New York,
lis now located in Mott street, looking
after the theological interests OF that
locality He is a learned man, speaking
! and writing Sanskrit, and reading with
ease several of the modern languages
of Europe. though he speaks none Of
the latter.-N. Y Tribune.
Phillips Brooks said in a sermon
the other day: when you read the
story Of yesterday s defau1ter fleeing to
, day ain exile or an outcast, or sitting
gloomily behind his prison bars, it il
J not with an angels innocent wonder
what s. sin like his can mean; it is with
the understanding of man who has
felt the same temptation to which this
, poor wretch has yielded that you de
plore his fate. The worst of men stir
, by the sight of his human sin some sens
t of what human power of sinfulness we
too, possess. ."-B0ston Post.
The business colleges of the Unite.
States have within twenty years multi
piled from few institutions to severa
!. hundred, some Of which have an annus
: registration of over one thousand stu
: dents each. United States Commis
sioner Eaton reports greater nuinbe
of graduates from the business college
than from the colleges of law. medicin
q and theology combined. Official report
show about so, 600 students during th
n past year. Chicago STANDARD.
% The Baptist Church has receive
~ n the following bequest from banker
- Detroit, Lorenzo B. Austin; America
:, Baptist Missionary Union, s., 600: Bal
- tist Theological School at Onzole, Indi'
- 81, 500; American Baptist Home Mi
1e ,e sionary Society, $1,000; American an
20 Foreign Rible Society, $1,000; to
20 used in distributing Bibles in the Sout
= 80 ern States, etc., $500; Dennison Un
:; versity, Granville. o., 81, 600; and to Il
r r Baptist churches which he formerly q
n tended in Akron and Middleburg. G
Il $4,000 Christian at Work.