The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

during ths last year the sum total
OF es-ucational gifts in this country was
nearly 5000. 900.
-Amusefnehts are to religion like
breeses of air TO the Hame-gentle ones
will fan 1t, but strong ones will put 1t
out. DIR. Thomas.
The Soudan has been almost totally
neglected by Protestants rs a field for
missionary effort II has O population
Of about 60, 600, Oo0 people
"A grant OF 5000 a year was recently
made out of the appropriation for the
Indian Bureau to aid the Industrial
school carried on in Dakota, near the
Grow Creek Agency. by Miss Howard,
a daughter OF Joseph Howard ia, thu
journalist
Young people ought to be interest
cd in our public schools. These schools
open the doors Of knowledge TO all
classes and conditions of American
youth. We can not begin to estimate
their importance in the development Of
our national life.
No business pursuit or employ
mont should be engaged in. however
profitable it may be, or may promise TO
be, if we can not glorify God in con-
nection with it No plea OF necessity,
or force OF circumstances, is justifiable
for wrong doing.
Again and again, at home and
abroad, the world has seen and con-
fessed the power of the old-fashioned
Bible and its truth to brighten the face
Of human society. II free religion can
do it better, by all means let tho world
see 1t done at once. Boston Congrv.
gationalist
Its no more possible for an idle man
to keep together certain stock ofknowl-
edge, than IT is possible to keep together
stock OF ice exposed to the meridian
sun. Every day destroys q fact. a rela-
ton, or an influence; and the only way
OF preserving the bulk and value OF the
pile is by constantly adding to it.
Rev. Sydney Smith.
The cost OF maintaining public
schools in New York State last year
was $t4 $50. S4l, an increase OF more
than $1,000, 600 over 1887. This money
was for the education of l,772, 95S chill
dren of school age. of whom 1888 800
attended school. The number Of teach.
ers employed was 81, 736, at an avefage
nnnro1 salary NJ & 40 u
The foundation of all education,
from the time a child first begins to
learn, is thoroughness. Whatever is
attempted must be carried out thor
oroughly, until tho learner becomes
master OF the subject. Thoroughness
is the groundwork OF all good habits OF
mind, and child's mind is as much a
bundle of habits as its body.
Two have So much to be thankful
ior," is an exclamation often heard
from the thankful heart, and it is all
true-so true that if but the vail that
obscures our earthly vision were lifted,
and we could see for moment how
much has been done for us, perhaps it
might lead to Increased thankfulness
expressed in life and deed, even if less
in words. Christian at Work.
Tho records of the Association OF
Collegiate Alumne show of the 524
members, II physicians, journalists,
8 authors, 8 librarians, lawyers, 3 art
lists, printers, 2 each of school princi-
pals, musicians, elocutionists. and pri-
vate secretaries. and one each of lee
tarer, chemist, typewriter, government
clerk, and merchant Others IRE en-
gagged in bookkeeping, dairy farming,
stock raising, insurance. biology, the
drama, and one is the editor OF an ag
ricultural paper.