The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-06
RELIGIOUS AND EpUcATlossAI.


The 186th anniversary Of the dedi-
cation Of Gloria Del Church, commonly
known - Old Swedes. was celebrated .
few days ago in Philadelphia.
After five years of deadlock with
England over the appointment Of the
Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, Prussia
has decided to 1cuni IN independent
bishopric there.
Rev. DR.. Pullman. Of Baltimore.
announced to his congregation recently
that he would marry people for one
dollar per couple, and would unite job
lots at fifty cents . pair.-Boiai1sre
SEN.
I'm Germany there are now eight
schools Of forestry, where training Of
five years is necessary for students seek
ing Government positions. France sup
ports a single school at Nancy.
There are seven hundred religious
UNCONVENTIONAL newspapers published
in the United States, and nearly one
third of them are printed in New York.
Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago.-N
y. Tribune.
Three hundred happy schoolmarms
from everywhere; members of the Gin
cinnati Teachers Excursion Association.
sa. led, recently, ON the Servia to sec
all they can of Europe in one summer.
N. Y. MaI.
The German Universities have one
hundred and fifty seven professors
between the ages OF seventy and ninety,
and one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE Of
them are still at work-two Of them
still lectur;ng at the age of ninety years.
The school board of Paris looks
after the health of the girls. and in
order that they perform their tasks I'M
der the best sanitary conditions posi-
BILE, lady physician has been appointed
as medical inspector of girls in Partisan
schools.
The Christias Union says: ut is .
mistake to 60 to church only or chiefly
for a sermon. Worship is the expres-
sion of reverence and love toward God.
Public worship is that expression by .
number uniting for the purpose"
The Chicago Interior says that
fifty-cent Bible judiciOusly distributed
will beat half dozen policemen in pre-
venting crime. and that an evangelical
Sabbath-schOOl or church in destitute
portion of a city will prevent more
crime than half its police.
Il know a clergyman who shortened
his prayer to eight minutes. instead Of
fifteen. His sermons were commenced
by eleven, never later than ten minutes
after, and always concluded BY 11:45.
Within three months after he had made
this change there was revival in the
church. Journal.
Very few graduates of Harvard
know that the gilded cross over ore of
the doors of Gore hall, at the college. is
a trophy of the capture of LOuisburg by
New England troops in 1744. 1t was
taken from a French church, and its
present location is the more appropri-
ate since the motto of the colonist
troop was mil desperandum Christie
duce. and that of the college is ''Christo
ct eccles;a. "-Hartford COurant.
Alfred the Great said that when he
began to reign there were very few
clergymen south of the Humber, who
could even understand the prayer book
(that was still in Latin as the Roman
missionaries had brought it), and south
of the Thames he could not remember
one. His first care was to get better
educated clergy, and then he estab-
lished schools for the laity. and pro-
cured the best teachers. He founded
new monasteries and restored the old
ones which had been RACED.