The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The minutes of the last Presbyterian
General Assembly show that lis OF
their churches last year received add
tons of so and over each.
Two or three clergymen in Brook
lyn introduced tie practice of giving
brief talks to the children before begin
ming the morning sermon.-Brooktyn
Onion.
Rome papers report that the Pope
intends to establish great university in
the Lateran Palace. The head OF the
Universities Leonina is to be the jesuit
Cardinal Mazzella.
The Chinaman in America is being
more and more cared for. According
to the New York Tribune "twenty-twO
Chinese missions have been established
in New York and Brooklyn since 1873.
and are in fiourishing cond ton. What
is more. a large proportion of the con-
vert stick"
In an article published in the Nou-
relle Rerue, French traveller declares
that there is scarcely village in Syria
W thout Protestant church; more than
one NAV be found even in the gOrges of
Mount Hermon. At Beyrout there is a
German hosp tai and American univer-
sity. where the most practical sciences
are taught, especially that of medicine.
"a Century of Protestant Missions"
is the title of ook published in Eng
land by the Rev. James Johnston. 1t
makes the startling estimate that while
5.000.0G0 converts have been added to
the churches, there are now 200. OUO.OOO
more heather in the world than there
were when Protestant missions began q
hundred years ago.-N. Y. Witness.
The illustrated Chris'idn Heeklp fol-
lows up the remarks of President Eliot,
of Harvard, i'm denunciation of the ten
dency to extravaganza that seems to be
increasing among collegians with some
appropriate remarks of his own. Owing
TO tnis extravaganza, the scale of en-
penditure is raised to all, and il will
cost the frugal student of TO-DAY from
so to 100 per cent more than it did their
equally frugal fathers to take a college
course in similar comfort.
In Brazil are found the best schools
in South America. They are divided
in o three grades-the primary, the
secondary. and the technical schools.
The first two correspond to the various
grades of our public schools. There is
but one institution in the country cor
responding to our college. namely.
college Don Pedro H." in Rio de
Janero. The lower schools are Tree,
and the law even demands compulsory
attendance.
The Bishop of Rochester does not
approve of the popular clamOr for brief
sermons. '.DO not" he advises his
ecclesiastical subOrdinates, ''readly
give in to what is often Only a worldly
cry for Sh 1T sermons. You need q
great deal more experience than you
can claim now for making fifteen
minutes sermon that shall be really
us full. Either so much will be COM
pressed into it that it will become load
ed and obscure, or what is perhaps
more likely, so little will g into it that
it will be impossible to endure it.
The figures laid before the Metho-
dist conference snow the steady growth
of the NJ, thodist Church in Canada
The membership is placed at 197.479.
There are l,6lO m nisters and p-oba-
TONERS. The church has property to
the value of S9.975.O43. The number
of Sunday-schOols is 2,675. with an at
tendance of '19l, 1S5. Sabba.h-school
papers have a circulation of 229. 639.
The work of temperance, according to
the rep 1T of the statistics committee,
has been carried on energetically. as is
witnessed by the fact that 46.2S Sun
day-scnool scholars have taken tine total
abstinence pledge.