The Springdale news., 1889-10-18
SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.

SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.
 The Transvaal Volksraad has ap- p~opriated $l00,00 for tho endow- ment of the first college of the Re. public.
 Mount Union College. Ohio, re- gently put women on it's board of trus- tees. among them Miss Frances F. Willard,
 The effort to effect union be- tween the United Church of Christ in Japan and the Congregational churches of that empire has failed, at least for the present.
 -Southeastern Maine has some rather venerable academies That at South Berwick was incorporated in 1791 and those at Fryeburg ard East Machias the year following.
 The city of New York has GOO Sum- day-schools. with total of 1S7, ,000 scholars and teachers. Philadelphia has 616 Sunday-schools, with a total of 195, S02 teachers and scholars.
 The seminary for girls recently completed by the Cherokee Nation has all the modern conyeniences except elevators and electric lights. Four Cherokee girls will act as teachers.
 The Nashville Christian Advocate says: "The African Methodist church, which has not white man among it's members or any organic relations with any white church organization. re- ports membership of 460. GOO. '
 The report of the Primitive Meth. odist Sunday Union, of En- gland, shows that there are 4,232 schools in the denomination, this be- ing an increase of IS over last year. There are G, OS3 teachers and 430, GA scholars.
 There are now 800 American schools in Turkey. all of which, except one, are open daily. An order was recently made by the Turkish Govern ment prohibiting any interference with the schools, which has been im- peded and interfered with by the local authorities.
 The ". c. T. U. parlor in the Anna NJ. Kellogg Memorial Hall at Chautauqua, was recently formally dedicated. This building, with its furnishings and grounds, is to beHsed for women's s classes. meetings and in- terests. and is the loving tribute of q philanthropic son to noble mother.
 The Icclanders are numerous enough in this country and Canada to maintain distinct and vigorous re- ligioas organization of their own. It is called the Icelanaie Lutheran church of America, consists of twenty-two congregations, and has just held it's fifth annual conference at Argyle, in Manitoba.
 -An examination of 692 pupils of Memphis public schools showed only five per cent to be near-sightea. but other defects of vision existed i'll six teen per cent. About New York il is much more common than formerly to see children wearing glasses but this is in part due 10 the increase Of visual defects and partly to the fact that physicians and parents are giy- lHS iliote dtttiIliOu IO Sutu aeteElS than they used to.
 To-day 34 missionary societies are at work in Africa and all its 290, 990. : o03 souls are practically within the reach of Christian missions; B soci- cites have begun work in China, and all its 35o,o0)00) souls may be visit. ed with the message of the Gospel; more than 50 societies have entered India, and the light is dawning upon it's 25o,O00 0o0. Turkey and Persia and Japan are filling with mission churches and mission schools. Prae- tically the whole world is open. and the grandest day of opportunity for the kingdom of God that the earth has ever seen has fully dawned