Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


900 to endow Il theological school in
connection with Denver University.
Rev. Augustus Totten, the only
colored Catholic priest in this coun-
try, is the pastor of St. Joseph's
Church, Quincy, Ill.
Rev Walter L. Huffman, of Peru,
Ind, has married over 1920 couples
and preached 1900 funeral services.
His surpasses the record of any other
Clergyman in the State.
Lord Carnarvon is urging that the
Anglican churches ought to be open
on weekdays for private worship, and
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
other churchmen agree with him.
kentucky has six counties-Har-
Ian, Knott, Perry, Letcher, Bell and
Leslie-that have never had church
within their borders during the sixty
or seventy years of their existence as
counties.
Germany is doing considerable
foreign missionary work nowadays.
1t has eighteen societies and supports
522 missionaries, who look after their
210,000 converts. Last year the total
receipts in money were over 500, 1000.
A rector writes to the Guardian
that a "celibate order among the
clergy is one of the imperative necessi-
ties of the time" the reason being
1.-the impossibility of supporting wife
and family upon the ordinary income
of a curate.n &
The brother who murmured in his
heart against God while the drought
lasted, but did not thank him for the
blessed rain when it came, is very
much like the rest of us-ready to as
cribe all troubles to Providence and all
blessings to chance. Christian AdUo-
cate.
Bishop Vladimir, the new Russian
Bishop of California, Alaska and Aleu-
tian Islands, brought to this country a
full boy choir of forty voices. The
new Bishop is transferred to the United
States from Japan. and his special
work will be to improve the now
wretched condition of the Creoles and
Indians in Alaska.
John Carswell, deacon Of the
Scotch National church at Blooms
bury, Eng, was recently fined five dol
lars in a police court for assaulting thu
wife of Johnson, a village painter
in the church. The evidence was tina
he struck her with the pedestal of tn,
offertory box and pushed her so tina
she became ill and had to leave thu
church. The assault was the part of ;
row between the church officials ant
the pastor, Rev. j. Mackie.
Philadelphia has a new religion
sect whose title is fearfully and won
derfully constructed. 1t is 1.-The Ec
clesia Of Israel; the Cyipz of Worship
ping Congregation of Our Father
Kingdom on Earth" They have re
vised the opening sentences of tn
Lords Prayer so that they read: "Ou
Father who art in Heaven, hallowe
be Thy name, Thy hand of power GU
soul do fear; Thine ear of love on
prayers do hear; Thy voice of ligh
illumines our feet; unto Thy house on
steps we bend, eternity with Thee t
spend; Thy kingdom has come; nov
let Thy will be done on earth as it
in Heaven"
According to a London contempt
rary, among the offers recently re
ceived for mission work was one fror
"a married man with small famil
of fourteen" who was quite willing
proceed to China and to leave his fan
lily behind him, for a large family h
found "great hindrance to grace
Probably he is going a little too far {
find grace. If he would stay home an
look after his family perhaps he woul
secure more of the precious artic
than by abandoning his family for
foreign trip. This declaration recall
the disinterested patriotism of the lat
Artemus Ward, who was willing I
sacrifice his wife's relations in the wa
Christian at Work.