The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
AND EDUCATIONAL.

The First parish Sunday-school Of
Charleston. Mass, which is the oldest
one in New England. celebrated its sew
cntieth anniversary recently.
Cornell University will confer no
honorary degrees hereafter. and to be-
come q doctor of laws under the new
rules of the institution one must be ex-
amined-IthGce journal.
Hereafter the students a. the New
Jersey State Scientific School. in addi-
ton to the military drill, will receive
instructions in craftsmanship on .
range in the suburbs of New Bruins
wick.-N. Y Sun.
The Methodist Church in Canada
hiss three local preachers who are mil
EonaireS, W. Z. Sandford, of Hamil-
ton; John Macdonald. of Toronto. and
&. A. Cox, OF PeterborO.-1Oroato
Nail.
Rev. Jeremiah O'Hearn, a priest of
the Roman Catholic Church. has been
received into the Baptist Church at
Dallas, Tex He had spent three years
investigating and studying the Baptist
faith.-N. y. Witness.
Ill al TtCtIt ClStoulSC III. isoPhAiSS
ex-president of Williams. stated tAat
of the 1850 graduates Of the college.
2,229 have sat under his instruction in
the six,y-one years during which he
has been connected with it-N 1.
Tribune.
Chaplain McCabe claims that the
Methodists in this country ''gaye last
wear for the work of Cod S19.04l.3 S7.
including -, 292. 400 for the support OF
pastors. elders and bishops: Si.l3l. S3l
for building churches and parsonages;
$1,000. 900 for missions; S3.5OO.OOJ for
current expenses of IL. 100 churches.
Recently census of the attend
ance of the churches of London. Eng.
was taken. 1t showed that 100000
persons attended the services in the
morning and 100000 at night. The
largest established church. ST. Paurs,
had an evening attendance of 3.40S-
Mr.. Spurgeon's church was at the head
of the dissenting churches. having
morning attendance of 4.519 and an
evening attendance of 900.
DIR. John II. Drummer, in his Union
Of the Churches, puts the number OF
negro Methodists at 100000. which il
more than half the number If the status
tics of the various churches are correct
They are as follows, viz: African Meth
odist Episcopal Zion. 100000; African
Methodist Episcopal, $4,000; Methodist
Episcopal. 225.O00; Colored Methodist,
155, 900; all others combined, $4,000
Total, l, 196,OO0.
At the annual session of the Synod
of the Reformed Church held in Phila-
delphia, resolutions favoring a coBstitu-
tional amendment prohibiting the man.
ufacture and sale of liquor, and request
ing Congress to legislate in favor of
Indians holding land individually, were
passed. The offer of the town OF Wich-
ita, Kan, in regard to the establishment
of college there was accented. The
statistics show that the body has now
215 ministers. 45S congregations, and
76, $50 members.-PhiIadelphic Press.
There is. perhaps. no science of
equal Importance and interest which re-
ceives so little attention, in or out OF
the schools, as orthodoxy. Now and
then little spasm of sentimental preju-
dice can be aroused against the ruthless
slaughtering of birds to secure orna-
ments for the milliners. But as for any
intelligent interest in bird life, any real
knowledge of their habits, any adequate
appreciation of their value inthe econo-
my of nature, there Is. outside the little
band of specialists. absOlutel;- nome
PSoridence Journal.