The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-04-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

In South Africa there ass said 70
b 70 Presbyterian congregations and
81. 900 church members
The total school population Of tho
Unlted Gtsses d n 7ea n s5zS ,.i.s:s,
I II 81, Y pki9t q IN 3si9ood
carving has been established in De
Paw University. GreencastIe, Ind. !
and Miss Louise Fisher, Of Cincinnati,
has been appointed to It.
The school enrolment In the
United States In 1886-'S7 was II, 49,
79S, an increase of, us. 30z during
the past ten years The cost Of sus-
taining the public schools for the same
year was s111,7l5, 707, an increase Of
81, $50, 9s over the year 1876 T
"A new religious sect has been or
ganized in Zwiclau. Its members call
themselves Free men in Christ, ',9tHg
the hymns OF the Methodists,I reject
infant baptism, as do the Baptists, are
like the Irvingites in believing in a
bodily return. Of Christ. and in place
OF the Lords Supper hold love feast.
Upon the authority Of q Presby-
terrain pastor, whoahas ctllated the
figures. the comparative growth OF
four denominations in St Louis
from 1873 to 1888 is as follows: Con-
gregational, f6o per cent. Southern
Methodist, 1877; Northern Methodist.
IS; Presbyterian, nine-tenths OF one
per cent .....-
Fifty years ago seven shoemakers
In a shop in the city of Hamburg said:
by the grace OF God we will help to
send the Gospel TO our destitute fell
low men. " In twenty-five years they
had established fifty self-supporting
churches, had gathered ont 1o,0e0
converts, had distributed 4ee, 99e BIZ
bIes and 100000 tracts and had
carried the Gospel to so, 900, 600 OF the
race.
Atcfy gentle form Of hazing, the
New York Evening Post learns. is that
to which the fresh girl entering the
Women's College at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Is subjected. Two bundles OF books
are hung around her neck and she is
required to ascend an inclined plank
that is very slippery. When, after
many slips, she reaches the top, she
is given lamp, which she is told to
keep full. and the wick well trimmed,
SO as not to be caught like the foolish
virgins. l
In suit recently brought at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, by Catholic tax-pay-
ers to prevent the reading of the King
James version of the Bible in the pub
lie schools, the court has decided that
such reading was not sectarian in
struction, the children OF the petition
ers not being obliged to listen if they
did not desire. and the Bible having
been decided upon by the authorities
as one OF the textbooks for Wisconsin
schools There was nothing, how
ever, TO prevent the schilaren from
reading version of the bible ac-
cepted by the Catholic Church if they
preferred.
"A colored brother who has been
a pastor Twenty-Five years, we'll
known to many, writing from one
of the Southern States, pleads
most earnestly for more missionary
work in very destitute portion Of
the State, and adds the following sad
and suggestive TESTIMONY $50 Is not
a time< to cease working among the
coIored people, In proportion as they
are left to themselves they are in
clined to recede from the light, to ebb
toward heathenism Even among
those who have had some educational
advantages we often find q religion
part superstition and part Christiani-
ty. The subjective energies and
processes of our spiritual life are not
yet able to sustainus against the wiles
of the devil. Home Mission Monthly.