Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-01-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Sin is never at stay; if we do not
retreat from it we shall advance in it,
and the further we go on the more we
have to come back.
The Christian faith is grand
cathedral with divinely pictured win
dows. Standing without, you see no
glory, nor can possibly imagine any;
standing within, every ray of hight re-
veals harmony of unspeakable splen-
dor. Hawthorne.
Prof. Drummond, the bright young
Scotchman who has been making
visit to some of the leading American
colleges, says that to him their most
remark able feature is "their Christian
tone" Their general atmosphere, he
says, is Christian. "They are religious
institutions. "
Prof Drummond and his co-labor-
ers have induced band of athletic
young Christian men to devote them
selves to work among the tenement
houses of London. The professor
thinks that this spectacle will do more
to inspire belief in Christianity than
whole library full Of books on dog
matte theology.
AT Hartford, one day recently. a
little child told his papa that he could
name the first five books of the New
Testament without looking at the
Bible. They were, he said Matthew
Mark, Luke, John and Ratchet" and
then, thinking people looked queer, he
hesitated and added swell, Ratchet
OF axe, it's about the same thing"
Two ex-presidents of Yale are still
living-Drs. Woolsey and Porter. OF
the two, DR.. Woolsey has the greater
power of recollecting the names and
faces of Yale graduates. His memory
is wonderful, and he often astonishes
an alumnus by recalling some trivial
detail of the past which had entirely
passed from the mind of the younger
man.
In New York there is one Metho-
dist Episcopal church to each 25,96l of
population; in Chicago, one to each
1884; in st. Louis, one to each rs, 900;
in Cincinnati, one to each 10, 500; in
San Francisco, one to each 1880; in
Cleveland, one to each Is, 1888; in Pitts
burgh and Allegheny, one to each z,
575; in Milwaukee, one to each 10, 500
in Detroit, one to each $3.50; in Indian
apolis, one to each 5000, and in
Columbus, one to each 6,366. -PabIiC
Opinion
The Southern California Advocatt
reports another magnificent donation
of lands to the University of Southern
California by Mr.. u. Freeman, the
owner OF the Centinella ranch neal
Los Angeles 900 in all given tt
found school of applied sciences
$780,, 900 for building and apparatus
and $500,0 900 for endowment. ThC
buildings will be in the vicinity o
Inglewood, the new and beautiful
town on the Ballona branch of tn,
California Central.
AT the recent Episcopal Missionary
Council in Philadelphia one of thu
speakers said that he knew wealth.
New York Episcopalian who paid $780,
for an opera box, and who in churcl
on Sundays drops five cents into tn
aims basin. The Christian at Work say
that this recalls the family who, afte
making trip that cost $500, ami re
turning home because they couldn'
take into the car with them their dog
for which they had been paying IS
day board at a hotel, gave as thei
united contribution s. for foreign mis-
sions.
Plymouth Church, Minneapolis,
charging several lines of its mission
airy work. In its Bethel Mission Their
/ are two daily kindergarten school
with four teachers. u day nursery AN
dispensary, sewing school, beside
the Sunday-school and evangelist
services. The young men are about t
, establish a new mission, including
Sunday-school and preaching service
, reading room, coffee room and u
industrial school for boys. The churc
attributes a large share of the supper
to the regular city mission. Chrtstid
\ Union.