Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Transvaal Volksraad has ap-
propriated 800, for the endow-
ment of the first college of the Re-
public.
Mount Union Collsse. Ohio, re-
Gently put women on its board of trus-
tees, among them Miss Frances E
Willard.
The effort to effect a union b.
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
1871 and those at Fryeburg and East
Machias the year following.
The city of New York has 600 Sum
day-schools. with total of $1,000
scholars and teachers. Philadelphia
has GIG Sunday schools. with total
of 1875. SD2 teachers and scholars.
The seminary for girls recently
completed by the Cherokee Nation has
all the modern conveniences except
elevators and electric lights. Four
Cherokee girls will act as teachers.
The Nashville Christian Advocate
says: 1.-The African Methodist church,
which has not white man among its
members or any organic relations with
any white church organization. re-
ports membership of 400. O00.'
The report of the Primitive Meth
odist Sunday-school Union, of En-
gland, shows that there are 1882
schools in the denomination, this be-
ing an increase of 4S over last year.
There are 62, 0S3 teachers and 430, GA
scholars.
There are now 500 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 i'm
peded and interfered with by the local
authorities.
The w. 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 be used
for women's classes, meetings and in
terests, and is the loving tribute of a
philanthropic son to a noble mother.
The Icelanders are numerous
enough in this country and Canada to
maintain distinct and vigorous re-
ligious organization of their own. 1t
is called the Icelandic Lutheran church
of America. consists of twenty-five
congregations, and has just held it's
fifth annual conference at Argyle, in
Manitoba.
An examination of 6S2 pupils Of
Memphis public schools showed only
five per cent to be near-sighted, but
other defects of vision existed in six
t,en per cent. About New York it is
much more common than formerly
to see children wearing glasses, but
GllS 10 LII part OuO " GAS AuCICuSO VI
visual defects and partly to the fact
that physicians and parents are CIV
ing more attention to such defects
than they used to.
To-day 81 missionary societies are
at work in Africa, and all its 200, OO0.-
600 souls are practically within the
reach of Christian missions; SO soci-
cites have begun work in China, and
all its $50, 0OO,OOo souls may be visit
ed with the message of the Gospel;
more than 50 societies have entered
India, and the light is dawning upon
its 25O,OOO.OO0 Turkey and Persia
and Japan are filling with mission
churches and mission schools. Prac-
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.