The Springdale news., 1889-08-02
oe, ,C,o,Js AND EDUCATIONAL
-Co-education is fully established In

Co-oducation is fully established III Australia.
 English girls are to be taught laundry work, besides cooking ln tue board schools.
 More than 2.OOO, 900 of the youth of India are to-day receiving an euuc''- tion in the English language.
 There arc 1,273 Young Mems Christian Associations on this side oi the water, owning property valued at sS, 451, OI2, and the current expenses oi the last year aggregated Sl' i4o' oo9.
 How well the orthodox Friends at tend to educational interests Is shoWh bv their report that of 79l children ot school age in the Yearly Meeting more than 600 are educated in Friends schools. Philadelphia Ledger
 Christianity was first introduced into the Samoan Islands over fifty years ago. The present population ot this group is 5, 000 Church members 5. 974, and Is, 73i adherents; eight En- rlish missionaries. and IF native teachers and preachers.
 The Baptist work in Cuba. which we have heretofore described, contlh- ucs. under the supervision ot Dlaz' to prosper. There are now 20 mission aries, 27 churches and stations With a membership of l, t93. The number of baptisms the past year was 300
 The whole objective foundation oI | religion, considered as a state of the mind and heart, lies in God himself. | The argument for a religious life Is complete when God is properly defined and apprchcnded What he Is n Ills being. attributes, character and rela- tions, at once determines what man ouqht to be. IN. Y. Independent.
 Missionaries throughout the world are finding that one of the most effec- tive ways Of reaching the people Tor whom they labor is to seek the conver- sion of the children. Men and women who have grown old in organism are not easily moved from their superstl- tions. The young form the most hope ful classes. The Missionary Herald.
 LA gentleman in New England has given $1OOO00, and Japanese gentle men have subscribed about $70, 900 to found Christian university in Japan, according to a plan proposed by Rev. Joseph Neesima. of the American Board. The Collegiate Institution, which Mr. Neesima has been building up for some years, contains more thar nine hundred students. Presbyterian Observer.
 The number of Student Nolun teers for Foreign Missions now ex | ceeds 3, 200, Of whom it is said that 10; have already sailed for foreign lands and others are soon to follow 4 ma tiOnal organization Of these 'Studen Volunteers" has been formed, with : committee of three representing tn : College Y, M. C. A. and |. W. C. 4. to } yethor with Mr. Wilder, of the Inter
 Seminary Alliance. with the object 0 } looking after these volunteers an' 7 bringing them to the attention of mis
 ,ionary boards and of the churches. The people of Connecticut have al
 ways boasted of the school system of th
 1tate, which they hold to he superior tc lt that Of any other State in the Union
 Yet the Legislature of the State hat
 just provided for its improvement b! raising the school fund to tho larg z sum of $2, 25O,000, or nearly $250,0O ! more than it has been in recent years ! Every boy and girl in Connecticut ca ! now secure a thorough education, fror
 the primary school to the norma school, under system which deserve ! 10 De studied by teachers everywhere.