The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-04-11

during n last year tns suH ose
of educational gifts in this country va
nearly 100000.
-Amusements are to religion lik'
breezes OF air to the fame-geutLe one:
will fan it but strong 9 will pun i
out DR.. Thomas.
The Soudan has been almost totally
neglected by Professionals 1. a field fol
missionary effort It has q population
of about 60. OO0. 900 people.
A grant OF $500 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, Jr.. the
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
ment should be engaged In, however
profitable it may be, or may promise to
be. II we can not glorify God in con
nection with it No plea o, necessity,
or force Of circumstances. is lustifable
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 il better. BY all means let the world
see it done at once. boston Congge-
gationa!ist
1t Is no more possible for an idle mar
TO keep together a certain stock O knowl-
edge, than It is possible to keep together
Il stock OF ice exposed to the meridian
sun. Every day destroys a 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 mainta ming public
schools in New YORK Safe last year
was sl4 $50, 84l, an increase OF mor
than 81, 2D0, 900 over 1887. This money
was for the education OF l,772, 95S chill.
dren OF school age, OF whom 1888 269
attended school, The number OF teach
ers employed was 81, 726, at an average
annual salary Of S4l9. u.
The foundation OF all education,
from the time a child first begins to
learn. is t~horoughness. Whatever is
attempted must be carried out thor
orough!y. until the learner becomes
master Of the subject I~horoughness
Is the groundwork OF all good habits OF
mind, and a chiId's mind is as much a
bundle Of habits as its body.
I've have so much to be thankful
or" 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 a 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.
The records OF the Association OF
Collegiate Alumnn show OF the 524
members. II physicians, 9 journalists,
g authors, s librarians, 5 lawyers. 3 art
lists, 3 printers, 2 each of school princi-
pals, musicians, elocutionists. and pri-
vate secretaries, and ono each Of lee
Lurer, chemist. typewriter. government
clerk, and merchant Others are en-
gagged in bookkeeping, dairy farming,
stock raising, insurance, biology, the
drama, and one is the editor OF an az.
ricultural paper.