Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-12-30


SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Five sick-diet kitchens are main.
tanned BY the City Mission Of Philadel
phia-
Ben Hogan. the muscular evan
gelist, i doing good work ON the Pa
cite coast, and viii this win hold
revival meeting in Los Angeles.-CAi.
eGgo Inter Ocean.
There are now S,S72 Young Mems
Christian Associations In the world.
1.071 Of which are in America, with
40, 600 members and annual current
expenses of $785.000.
Natural gas accommodating In the
stove in Pittsburgh public school ex-
ploded the other day without hurting
any one. but the children al gained .
half holiday.
There are 1872 colored Presbyterian
churches in the South, with 1855
members. OF this number IS churches
are in North Carolina and 50 in South
Carolina
In . recent discourse DR.. Hopkins,
ex-president of Williams, stated that,
of the 1880 graduates Of the college,
1928 have sat under his instruction in
the sixty-one years during which he has
been connected with it.
The Episcopal convention have
chosen Rev. Ethelbert Talbot Of Mis-
souri,, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming
and Idaho. and Rev. r. NJ. Rogers, OF
Potsdam, NY. as Missionary Bishop Of
Utah.
MIR. John Ruskin says of the Bible
-'.grandest group of writings exist
ent''-that ''by consultation of it hon
estly on any serious business you may
always learn what you should do. and
be directed, perhaps. besides to work
more serious than you had thought Of"
IN y Tribune.
Among the great moral questions
one of the most difficult to answer is
as to the relative slnfnlness of going
from church to church to avoid paying
for ones preaching, or of strictly adj
herring to one house of worship and
never paying ones pew rent-Boston
Transcript.
Rev. o. B. rockingham, in some
remarks before the Unitarian Club in
Boston the other day, said: .'The prob
lem of religion to-day is to translate
the religion of the parlor into the Ian
guage of the shop; to take it out Of
the hands of gentlemen and put it into
the hands of men"
The great Bible publishing estab-
6shment founded at Halle early in the
last century by Baron Won Canstein is
about to issue the thousandth edition
of its octave Bible, of which 2.112. 100
copies have now been published. This,
however, is the most recent of the edi-
tons published by this establishment
for the first impression dates from 1885,
when 5000 copies were printed to be-
gin with.
Brooklyn can NO longer claim the
proud distinction of being the Getty
of Churches" During the last ten
years, while the city has almost doubled
its population. only thirteen new
places of evangelical public worship
have been opened, including chapels.
This is only one place for each increase
of about $1,000. 1t is q fact that to-
day the religious restitution of that
city is greater than that of any other
leading city in the United States
Christian at Work.
The negro schools and colleges in
Atlanta, says the Consultation Of that
city, are much more costly and COM
Portable than the schools for the
whites. It is true that much, perhaps
the most, of the money invested In
these edifices came from the North,
but the fact that Atlanta has been Sc
lected as the site and center of them
speaks well for the enterprise and local
pride of the leading negroes of Atlanta.
Their educational institutions are not
only very imposing structures. but they
are fully equipped and abundantly en-
lowed. and to ali outward appearances
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