The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-03
,ohovs AND EDUCATIONAL

-Hnma1 things must Be known to
be loved; div inc things must be loved
to be known. Albany Journal.
OF two hum, red and eighty English
PRESBYTERIAN chu. .ches, two hundred
and forty have Temperance sociesies'-
CbrsstiGN Union.
The University Of Virginis , sd
to have more alumni in tie present coma
gress than any other Institution in the
country.
lin an English church in L01don tho
communion service is celebrated once .
month in Hebrew for the benefit OF
some converted Jews
The largest church in Washington.
D. c., is the colored Methodist Church
on NJ street, between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets. 1t seats $500 people,
and all but $40, 600 of the cost. Sic, 900,
has been Washington Star.
"A young man applying for posi-
ton as teacher in q Southern school
was asked, ''Where is African The
professor was surprised at the answer.
which was not altogether incorrect.
'.Africa." said the young man, sis in
Virginia"
The receipts of the British and
Foreign Bible Society last year were
81, 156, 1865, and those of the Ameri-
can Bible Society were $528.910.5S.
The total issues of the two societies for
the year were 5, sol .344, or an average
of about $4,000 for each working day.
N. y. Post.
Rev. William H. Roberts, DID,, q
distinguished Presbyterian divine, IL
brarian of Princeton Theological Semi
nary for the past nine years and also
stated clerk of the General Assembly,
has accepted a call to the chair of prac-
teal theology at the Lane Theological
Seminary. Cincinnati, U.
i will frankly tell You that my ex-
perience in prolonged scientific investi-
cations convinces me that a belief in
Coda God who is behind and within
the chaos of vanishing points of hui
man knowledge-adds wonderful
stimulus to the man who attempts to
penetrate into the region of the I'M
known.-Prof. Agass;z.
The impression seems to be gaining
; ground in England that the quarrels in
the Salvation army are threatening the
disintergatiOn of that queer Organiza-
ton. As an indication of this it is
stated that at the recent monster meet
ing" in Exeter Hall. London, General
Booth called for collection of $4,000
and received only Ell.
During single century the trans.
latiOns of the Scriptures have increased
iive-fOld; the evangelical missionary so
cieties, ten-fold; the number of mission
aries, fifty-fOld: contributions in money,
twenty-five-fOld: the circulation Of the
Bible, thirty-fOld, and the number of
converts from heathenism, thirty-five-
fold.-N. Y. Examiner. n II
Rev. Louis JEST, Presbyterian mis-
sionary at Zacatecas, Mexico, has retired
from the pulpit. and is studying medi-
cine. His explanation is that for six
years he has lived in constant fear OF
his life; that he has been repeatedly fired
at while preaching; that he has had to
shoot three or four men in self-defense,
and that he finds missionary work too
exciting for his nerves.
This is the time of year when the
school-houses are usually renovated.
Many improvements are needed. The
reports to the Educational Bureau in
Washington show that a very large
proportion of the country schO0l-houses,
even in such States as New York. New
Jersey and Massachusetts, are about as
they were forty years ago. One lady
teacher remarked: '"The seats in my
school-roOm arc miserably uncomfort-
able for large. growing girls. know
it well, for sat on them myself thirty
years ago."-M T. Ledger.