Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Five years ago there were i've
girls schools in Yokohama and Toxic.
To-day there are more than thirty. and
all well patronized.
Rev. Macon w. Pressly. United
Presbyterian clergyman of Philadel-
phia, in a sermon on Sunday, said very
truly that 1.-The press is the herald OF
the Gospel and the greatest preaching
agency that the church has ever had. y
Charles H. Hackley. a wealthy
lumberman of Muskegon, Mich. has
given to the public schools OF that city
800. 900 in trust for the erection of a
public library and reading room build
ing and for the purchase of books and
other material.
There are now S02 schools and de-
partments under the supervision of the
Board of Education in New York City.
with an average attendance of nearly
155, 900 pupils. while the whole num-
Der of pupils taught in the past year
was over 306. 900.
The president Of the New York
Board of Education suggested that an
American flag be placed oyer the prin-
cipars desk in all the public schools Of
the city. and the suggestion is being
carried out, public-spirited citizens
furnishing the flags.
The American Baptist Union repre-
sents nearly 100000 Baptists in the
Northern and Western States. and is
the second oldest foreign missionary
society in the country. Its seventy
third annual meeting was held in Min
neapolis the past summer.
The Congregational Sunday school
workers of Boston purpose raising a
500, 900 memorial fund in honor of
Rev. Asa Billiard. the pioneer Sunday
school worker. The money will be
permanent fund for the carrying on of
Sunday-school missionary work in this
country.
AT one of the little mission chapels
in the Charlotte Islands no less than
one hundred blankets, valued at $1.25
each, were contributed on one Sunday
by the native congregation toward the
erection of new church. Measured
by the meager resources of these poor
Christians, they furnished a magnif-
cent example. - Christian Adrocate,
Nashville.
The Dunkards at their annual
meeting held recently in North Man
chester. Ind. reafiirmed all previous
declarations about the use of tobacco,
and decided that applicants for men,
bership should promise to be free from
that habit. Ministers who chew or
smoke will not be allowed to assist in
church adjudications.
An evangelistic church is always a
center. Zeal for souls at
home is the kindling fire for the con-
version of the world. If there is no
travail for souls at home. there will be
no interest in the perishing millions of
heathendom. Beginning at Jerusa-
lem Is the Divine law OF growth and
activity.-The Mission Field.
Twill you not smoke with me?"
said preacher who was supplying a
church that Sunday with view to q
call. The father of that young man.
thus offered cigar. had quit the use
of tobacco for fear that his son might
take to it. That cigar, handed out by
the preacher, turned the scales. and he
was not called to that church. The
mother of the young man said: 1--WE
are not extremists, but we prefer that
our sons should not use tobacco. How
can We keep them from it if our own
pastor uses it?" That was q three
thousand-dOllar cigar-we mean that it
was a three-thOusand-dOll salary
which the cigar turned into smoke
Richmond Religious Herald.