Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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New York, 432; Chicago, 371; Brook
lyn, 800.
The church on the little island Of
Atufa, in the South Seas, includes all
the adults on the island.
The General Missionary Commit
tee of the Methodist Church has de-
cided to ask the churches for 81, 100,-
600 for missionary purposes next year.
The total receipts for the year 1888 are
stated to be 81, 900, 581.
Brown University, of Providence,
R. l., has received the Wilson legacy
of 100000 the Lyman legacy of $780,
600, and Alexander Duncan, of En-
gland, lately added $4,000 to the
general fund of the institution.
-Twenty-one schools in Syria which
had been closed by order OF the Turk
ish officials have been reopened. This
result is to be credited to the efforts of
Mr.. Strauss, the American Minister,
who is Jew, but was educated at
Princeton College.
Bishop Vladimer, of the Greek
Church in America, has the largest
diocese in the world. 1t includes all
of North America to Buenos Ayres in
South America. The Bishop lives in
Sitka, but spends a good deal OF his
time in San Francisco.
Isaiah V. Williamson, of Phila-
delphia, has given about $1,000, 900 to
endow a manual training school and to
furnish it with commodious buildings,
workshops and grounds, and fully
equip it with all modern tools, MAJ
chinery, material and appliances fitted
to the purpose, and to provide an ade-
quate sum to insure its steady support.
Being asked to announce from his
pulpit a lecture by an escaped nun, !"
Rev. W. H. Thomas, a Methodist min
lister of Worcester, Mass, thus replied:
81 am not in harmony with the un-
Christian, un-American, discourteous
assault upon the Roman Catholic
church, now so popular about Boston.
am endeavoring to educate my peo-
pie to higher things, and must decline
to read your notice"
In the course of the past year the
British and Foreign Bible Society has
issued portions of the Bible in six new
languages Five are for different parts
of Africa, and among the more impor-
tant of these is the issue of the entire
New Testament in Sepedi, to be pub
lished for the use of the Berlin Mis-
sion to the North Transvaal. Tribes
numbering 1900 speak this tongue,
and already more than 1000 can read
in it.
OF the LIZA students in Cornell
University according to the new regis
ter, New York contributes 70S.
Thirty y-eight other States and
Territories are represented. Canada
sends sixteen students. Other
foreign countries represented arc
Japan. Brazil, France, Nicaragua,
Porto Rico, Cuba, England, Sandwich
Islands, Turkey and United States Of
Colombia. A student from Honduras
entered too late to be listed in this
edition.
The House of the Good Shepherd
in Denver, a school for Chippewa
girls, conducted by Roman Catholic
nuns, is doing a good work for the lit
tie squaws. Twenty-Five have recent
ly gone to their homes in Northern
Dakota after finishing a three-years
course, and thirty more have come tC
take their places. 1t is said that the
parents of the girls are very proud
when their daughters come home able
to read and write and versed in many
of the ways of the pale faces. And the
J influence of the girls is considerable in
changing the habits of the old folks
and bringing about an era of cleanli
ness hitherto unknown in an Indian
tepee.