The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

I'm Washington Territory China
man has been made school-teacher for
the benefit Of his countrymen.
The retirement is announced Of
Miss Mary E. Riddle, who for forty
years has been an eminent and success
full teacher in the schools Of bingham,
Massachusetts,.
As the preachers and teachers of
the future must come from the children
of the present generation. how import
ant il becomes that the claims Of reli-
gious truth should be faithfully pressed
upon the youthful mind. '1n to-day
already walks tomorrow. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The free kindergarten department
Of the National Women Christian Tenn
perance Union is making rapid advance
ment one lady having given nearly
81, 600. 900 for the establishment and
maintenance Of these institutions in the
State of Massachusetts,. Jour
nal.
II the Northern and Southern Pres
byterian churches were united there
would be q church extending to every
part of the country, with 8, AIS churches,
6,621 ministers and 805. SOL members.
The income of these Presbyterian bodies
amounts to very nearly S12, 900, 0Oo.-
United Presbyterian.
The recent Methodist Sunday-school
Assembly in Kansas has chosen Topeka
as its place of assembling for the next
ten years, and q tabernacle, normal
halls, boarding halls, ETC., are to be
erected at once. A school of theology
was created and faculty elected with
DIR. James Marvin as Dean.
Rev. Chow Ju Tien, the first Budd-
hist priest who ever visited New York.
is now located in Mott street, looking
after the theological interests Of that
locality. He is a learned man, speaking
and writing Sanskrit, and reading with
ease several of the modern languages
of Europe. though he speaks none of
the latter.-N. T. Tribune.
Phillips Brooks said in sermon
the other day: when you read the
story of yesterdays defaulter fleeing to-
day an exile or an outcast, or sitting
glOOmily behind his prison bars, it is
not with an angels innocent wonder
what q sin like his can mean it is with
the understanding of . man who has
felt the same temptation to which this
poor wretch has yielded that you de-
plore his fate. The worst of men stirs
by the sight of his human sin some sense
of what human power of sinfulneSs we,
too, possess. "-B0ston Post.
The business colleges of the United
States have within twenty years multi
piled from few institutions to several
hundred, some of which have an annual
registration of over one thousand stu
dents each. United States Commits
sioner Eaton reports greater number
of graduates from the business colleges
than from the colleges of law, medicine
and theology combined. OfficialrepOrts
show about $4,000 students during the
past year.-Ch'cago Standard.
The Baptist Church has received
the following bequest from q banker in
Detroit, Lorenzo b. Austin: American
Baptist Missionary Union, 5000; Bap-
fist Theological School at Onzole, India.
$1,000; American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary Society, 5000; American and
Foreign Hible Society, $1,000; to be
used in distributing Bibles in the South
ern States, etc.. $500; Dennison Uni
versity. Granville, O., $4,000; and to the
Baptist churches which he formerly at
tended in Akron and Middleburg, O.,
"a, CAristidn at WOr..