The Iola register., 1886-01-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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The rector Il fashionab bic church
in Utah is spoken Of - the .Apostle Al
the Genteels."
There are moro churches and
chapels in London than in the whole
OF any European nation except France.
-'.Bread services are being held at
some places in England. each person At
tending church bringing one or more
loaves to be distributed to the poor and
unemployed
Miss Orme, in addressing the young
women students in the London School
Of Medicine, especially urged them to
.'interest themselves in the topics Of the
day."
james Russell Lowell has piven
to Harvard Library about six hundred
volumes Of rare historical books and
works of bellies lettres, chiefly Spanish,
which he picked up in England.
One of the largest single contribu-
tons made to the missionary work of
the Church last year, if not the largest,
came from Christian Chinaman, who
gave 5000 to St. Luke's Hospital in
Shanghai Christian Union.
1t is related of Texas university
that the faculty consists of father and
two sons. The sons conferred the title
OF LII. d. on the old gentleman. who re-
turned the compliment by making each
OF the sons Ph. D.-Chica2o Times.
The Jewish Association for the Diffu-
sion of knowledge has adopted the re-
vised version of the Old Testament as
the basis for a new edition of the Scrip
lures which is about to be issued for the
use of English-speaking Jews.-M r
Times.
"A school ,-house containing four hum
dred and eighty children was cmptied
in q minute and a half, without the
least disorder. in Springfield, last week.
after an alarm of fire but the pupils had
often been drilled for it.-Sprinqfeld
(Mass.) Republican.
Rev. DIR. Howard Crosby and the
elders of the Fourth Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
Church. New York, have issued a pas
tOral letter to the members of that
church, taking strong grounds against
the Sunday newspaper, which they pro-
nOunce to be "a device of Satan. -
N"scsJV OVuSfset.
There are about $4,000 Church of
England clergymen. In the theory of
English law every Englishman is
member of the Church of England.
But there are about IL 500, 900 dissenters
in England and Wales, the members of
the Established Church numbering 49,
100000. The Queen is by law the SUI
Dreme head of the church.
Recently in Sunday-school not far
from Springfield, Mass, the Snperin-
tendent had given out to be sung hymn |
No. 6 in the Gospel Hymns, when an
impulsive singer started off with solo |
of No. 6 in the Sunday School Quarter
ly, which reads:
did not love the fold.''
Finding himself alone at the end Of |
the second line he subeided, when the
school. with as much sobriety as posi-
BILE, took up the song given out. as fol-
lows:
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold;
FSt Fat on one !, was vas out on the hills y. sxay.
MIR. Booth. of the Salvation Army.
said that, in 1873, their colors
were flying in two countries; to-day they
were to be seen in seventeen. Seven
years ago there were 81 corps; to-day
there are 1850. They had then 127
officers, now there were 1850. Seven
years ago there were no small CORPS in
the village affiliated with the large corps;
now there were Co., There had been but
one newspapers small monthly maga-
sine-tO-day they had twenty-five separ-
ate publications. s.-LoudOn Truth