Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

An entire town OF five hundred in.
habitants on the coast of China, near
Foo Chow, has adopted Christianity,
says an exchange.
DR.. Pringsheim, recently appointed
to a professorship in the University of
Munich, is the first jew ever admitted
to a Bavarian faculty.
Signs of the times, even in the
fashionable world, disclose the dawn
ing of day when q faithfully practi.
cal education shall be demanded both
for young women and for young men. =
The Mordrian.
The estimate by the Philadelphia
Board of Education of the expenses for
1887 of the city's schools asks for
81, l72, $685., or about 100000 more
than the appropriation of Sl,864, 154
for the present year. The principal
item is 81, $40. so for teachers sal
aries.
The Sunday-school statistics of the
Methodist Episcopal Church are now
in and footed up for 1885, with the fol-
lowing results: Schools, %, 400; Off
GERS and teachers, 246, 0j4; scholars,
4,8lS,032. This is an increase of 3l4
schools, 1852 officers and teachers and
1886 scholars. - Christian AdrOcate.
Rev. DR.. Lathrop, pastor of the
Baptist Church at Stamford, Conn,
having offered his resignation, the pas
tors Of the Episcopal, Congregational,
Methodist, Universallst and Roman
Catholic churches re Iuested him to TO.
call it. This is one of the most re-
markable instances of Christian unity
and sympathy on record.-Ch'tS'Iaa
Union.
1t is said that the Zion Hebrew
congregation of st. Paul, Mimi, ad opted
a heroic method for testing the sermon
izlng qualities of candidate for its
pulpit. He's not permitted to fire his
very best sermon at the congregation,
but committee meet him on the way
to church, give him text, and he's
expected to preach from it without
further notice.
1t is remarked that Boston people
like broad churchmen, whose sermons
are not fat Phila iclphians like preach
crs whose thoughts are deep and well
rounded; New York likes square man
with no frills about him, who can say
it all in twenty minutes, and Chicago
is always wanting somethingin preach
ers that it seldom GETS Chicago Times.
Vinegar is a very good thing in its
place, but gallon of it ought to out
last, in well-ordered house, a barrel
OF sugar and an entire crop of potatoes.
But some people, in their lives, reverse
the proportions AMI are so vinegary
that there is but little use of the staples
and sweetnesses. Even when they ask
for grace they mean moro vinegar
United Presbyterian.
Mr.. George Williams. the founder
Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions, has been elected president of the
London Association to succeed the late
Earl Shaftesbury. Mr.. Williams has
not only given his heart and life TO
work for young men, but has been
princely in his bencfactions to Young
Mems Christian Associations on the
other side of the sea. He is a most
genial man, AMI greatly beloved by the
young baptist Weekly.
The Prcsbytcrians of this country,
both Northern and Southern, are to
meet in General Assembly in PhilaIei-
ph'a in 1888. 1t will be the one hun
dredth anniversary of the Presbyterian
General Assembly in the United States
The Northern brethren propose to
honor tina occasion by bringing an
offering of Sl,000.0J0. The Southern
ers come to fraternize, but they are OPP
posed to anything being said or done
looking to an organic union.-M y.