Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-12-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

OF two hundred and eighty English
Presbyterian churches, two hundred
, and forty have temperance societies.
Christian Union.
The University of Virginia is said
to have more alumni in the present con-
gress than any other institution in the
country.
In an English church in London the
communion service is celebrated once a
month in Hebrew for the benefit of
some converted Jews.
The largest church in Washington.
ID. c., is the colored Methodist Church
on M street, between Fifteenth and Six.
teenth streets. 1t seats $500 people.
ana all but $40, of the cost, SIG, 900,
has been paid. Washington Star.
A young man applying for a posi-
ton as teacher in Southern school
was asked, Where is AfricaP" 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, 1876, 1876. 49,. and those of the Amer.
can Bible Society were 1928. $40. SO.
The total issues of the two societies for
the year were 1901, 344, or an average
OF about $4,000 for each working day
N. Y. Post
KEY. William Ii. Roberts, DID,, a
distinguished Presbyterian divine, Ii.
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, o.
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 a wonderful
stimulus to the man who attempts to
penetrate into the region of the un.
known.-Prof. Agoss Z.
The impression seems to be gaining
ground in England that the quarrels in
the Salvation army are threatening the
dislntergation OF that queer organiza-
on. 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 Gi7.
During single century the trans
lations of the Scriptures have increased
five-fold; the evangelical missionary So
c,etes. tenfold; the number of mission
aries, tifty-fold; conllibut ons in money,
twentyfive-fold; the cir, uaton of the
Bible, thirty-fold, and the number of
converts from heathenism. thirty-fve-
fold.-N. T. Examiner.
Rev. Louis JEST Presbyterian mis-
sionary at Zacatecas, Mexico has retired
from the pulpit. and is studying medi-
cine. His eXplana ion 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 miss onary work too
exciting for his nerves.
This is the time of wear 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 school-houses,
even in such States a, New York, New
Jersey and Massachusetts, are about AS
they were forty years ago. One lad
teacher remarked: "The seats in my
school-room are miserably uncomforl
able for large, growing girls. know
it well, for sat on them myself thirt,
years ago. ~ y Ledger.