The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

There are more than fifty Congrega-
tional churches in Southern California.
Many OF them have over one hundred
members.
The natives of Africa along the
Niger used to worship the animal called
the iguana; now they eat it. The mis-
sionaries have brought about the
change.
According to the recent census of
Switzerland, the Republic contained L.
zoo, 900 Protes tents, 1900 900 Catholics,
$500 Jews, and 1O,700 adherents of no
religion.
DIR. William Lomax, of Indiana,
has given his entire estate, amount
ing to over 100000, to the Indi-
ana Medical College, of Indianapolis,
the only condition being the payment
of small annuity to the donor and his
wife during their lives, and the reserva.
ton of their homes to them.
Africa has now within her borders
10 American - British and Is CONT
mental missionary societies. There are
more than 700 ordained missionaries
and more than 1000 native preachers.
1t is estimated that there are, both
white and native, about 49, 900 COM
municants and 500, 900 adherents.
Clark University will next year be-
gin course in the history and princi-
plies OF education, consisting of lectures
and conferences courses of reading,
etc. 1t is designed for those who wish
to qualify themselves to fill chairs of
pedagogics in colleges and normal
schools, and for superin tendents and
principals.
The teachers guild in London has
over four thousand members. 1t pro-
poses to ask Parliament to pass a stat
ute for the registration of teachers that
shall require as condition of registra-
ton, after three years, satisfactory evil
dence of knowledge of the history,
theory and practice of education, and
experience as teacher.
One of the most significant signs of
the educational times is the disappear
ance of the elderly college president.
Young men are pressing forward, and
the older gentlemen are very content to
step aside for some more easy-going
place. The truth is, the presidency of
a college is largely place for the ex-
ercise of business shrewdness. The
young men may be less venerable, but
they make things rush. Chicago News.
The Missionary Review says: mo
mission in the world perhaps, can
show more notable record than that
of the Canadian Presbyterian church in
China. At the end of sixteen years
work, and with small staff of labor
ers, it reports 1850 baptized members,
two native pas tors, sixtyfour elders,
sixty deacons, and thirty seven native
preachers. 1t maintains two mission
houses, fifty chapels, a girls school,
and training college. The credit of
these results is due, under God, to DR..
Mackay, one of those remarkable men
who are born missionaries
"A successful baptist pastor found
it necessary, because of failing health,
to go into secular business. I'm taking
the position of layman he would beg
all correspondents to do him the favor
of emitting the title of reverend in his
address" The Christian Inquirer says
of this request: There is straight
forward manliness about this thing that
we like. While we do not think all
men who 60 out of the active duties of
ministerial life should abandon the
ministry entirely, we feel sure that
some are SO employed that ministerial
attachment to their names is simply
ludicrous"