Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-07-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Columbia College Law School
graduated class of one hundred and
nine recently.
The Southern Baptist Conference
proposes to raise ten thousand dollars to
be expended in evangelizing the colored
race in the South.
The Methodist Church South has
elected the following additional Bishops:
Rev. Drs. w. w. Duncan, of South
Carolina; G. Il. Galloway, of Mississippi;
Eugene Il. Hendrix, of st. Louis, and
Joseph Stanton Key, of Georgia.
1t is said that thousands of tons Of
leather scraps are ground up and sold
for fertilizers. Gentlemen who have
been raised on the toe of boot will
readily see how Cflicacious leather must
be as fertilizer. 49, Chicago Tribune.
Some friend, whose namo is with
held from the public, has given ono
hundred thousand dollars to the Uni
versity of the tity of New York, with
which to enlarge the medical depart
ment ana increase its equipment.
Paul Cook, president of the French
Methodist Conference, and who has
taken leading part in the spread of
Methodism in that country, is dead.
He was the originator of French Sunday
schools, and was at first the victim OF
much persecution.
Bishop w. II. Miles, of the Colorcd
Methodist Episcopal Church in America,
weighs three hundred pounds,
wears suit which cost him from four
to seven dollars, carries pair of old
"A Il l.,
worth twenty thousand dollars in
money and city property. He is self
made; but he is made.-C Christian
Union.
The Board of Publication of the
Presbyterian Church reports that the re-
ceipts from the sale of its periodicals last
year were Sl07, ,062.70, and makes the
remarkable statement that the unpaid
bills given up rs hopeless for the entire
year amounted to only S74.01.
The Congregational Church Union,
in session recently at Ottawa, Can, fa-
vorably considered the recommendation
that the Congregational Church in Can
ada should seek union with that of the
United States, and the executive COM
mittee were instructed to prepare re-
port on the matter.
Philadelphia has sixty-sevcn Baptist
churches and seventeen missions. The
total church membership is 1888.
There are eighty-threc Bible schools,
with officers and teachers, 2,003, and
scholars 23,973. There are in the city
$50 Sunday schools, with an attendance
of 1S6, ,S35 scholars and over $1,000
tcachers.-FhiLadclphjG Press.
The Bible commands that servants
shall be treated with love and kindness,
more than 700 times. The poor and
the needy are referred to more than
$50 times, while the word "rich" APP
pears only u times. On the other
hand, widows and orphans are spoken
of-compassionately, of course-more
than 100 times, the expression right
and Justice" appear 800 times, and
Glove" and "mercy" 800.
The Archbishop of Philadelphia has
published in his diocese the decisions on
the recent plenary council, of Balti.
more, in regard to the sale of liquors
on Sunday, and announced that all
Roman Catholics under his jurisdiction
must either abstain from selling intoxi.
cnnts on Sunday or leave the church.
Should they disregard this injunction
the priest will refuse to grant them alb.
solution, and thus deprive them of the
sacraments.-N. Y. Times.