Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-MOsb Oi inc AOHuoH nt'tchoS haFo
offered up prayers for the recovery OF
the Crown Prince of Germany.
The total amount expended last
year by the New West Commission in
their schools among the Mormons was
SCI, 318.-Public Opinion.
Miss Story, the daughter of a cler-
gyman in the north of Ireland, has
won the Literature Scholarship of
f1O0 year for five years, awarded by
the Royal University Of Ireland.
The American Home Missionary
Society has aided in planting S,427
churches, and 1, 900 ministers are now
under commission, 1876 preaching in
foreign languages. Public Opinion.
The study of Volapuk, the new
universal language, is obligatory upon
the students of the Royal Gymnasia Of
Munich. In Russia it is permitted to
be used in telegraphic TRANSMISSION.
Children have full use OF their eyes
and ears before their tongues have
mastered language. and consequently
they are learning lessons Of good or
evil sooner than many people suppose
Dakota is settled by an educated
people who have made ample provision
for the education of the rising genera
ton. Look over the domain of prairie,
and the country school is seen in the
most sparsely settled regions.
The Second Adventists of Long
Branch, N. j.. have appointed March
81, 1883, as the day for winding up
the affairs of this world and theii
translation into another. Notwith.
standing the Importance of this mat.
ter they are TRANQUILITY following their
business without apparent anxiety.
The Sturgeon family in London is
represented by three clergymen. The
membership under their care, 1t is
said, constitutes more than one-sixth
of the membership in the London
Baptist Association. Mr.. Thoma.
Spurgcon, son of Charles H., is pastor
of one-fourth of all the Baptists in New
Zealand.
"A gift of real estate valued at $40,
900 has been made by ex-Mayol
Thomas B. Feeble, of Newark, N. j..
to the First Baptist Church for the sitt
of a new church. which Mr. Feeble of
fers to erect at his own expense at 1
cost of S75, 900. This is the larges
religious donation in the history o
Newark. Public Opinion.
The Wesley chapel Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, which wa
recently burned down as a result Of in
cendiary work in Chattanooga, Tenn.
was an old landmark of the city. l
was erected in 1S47 at Soddy ant
noated down the river on raft Il
Chattanooga, where 1t was locates
on the site on which it burned. Dur
ing the late war it was used for al
arsenal and prison.
The Scotch established churc,
gets f250, 900 from taxes and land an,
produce-tiends and fars--it has EOS,
700 direct from the Imperial treasur
consolidated fund, and manses, glebe
and churches are valued at over Gl00,
o0O-a total of fully fS76,000 Of ma
tional property held for the benefit @
minority; with disestablishment tn
property would be available for educs
tional and local purposes. benefting all
An Anglican divine, DR.. Thoma
Salpy French, who now holds tn
) bishopric of Lahore, in the Punjsub
India, dignity which he will resig
al the close OF the year, i. distias aisAs
as linguist even in q country wher
linguists are, from the circumstance
of oriental life, perhaps more commo
than in any other. DR.. French is ADJ
to preach with luency in ten differer
languages, and is popularity known 8
"the many-tongued man of Lahore.