Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-11-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Mc'illl University, Montreal, mas
received $500 from Sir Donald
Smith, to establish woman's branch.
Methodist laymen in Nashville,
Tenn, have organized to build churches
in needy portions of that city.
The United Presbyterians have
spent $40, 500 the past year in building
eighteen parsonages-an average of
So, 700 each.
-Methodism in Maine has been UNI
usually active this year, building
larger number of churches than in any
recent year.
The gold medal awarded Michigan
for her educational exhibit at the Mel
bourne (Australia) Exposition in 1888
has just been received at Lansing. 1t
is of Australian gold, and weighs nearly
two ounces, go.
e. The great Shanghai conference APP
peals to universal Christendom for an
increase OF the missionary force from
Christian countries to China, OF an ag-
gregate annual average OF two hundred
for five years to come.
"A chair OF music has been estab-
lished at Yale College by the gift of
$40, 900 from Mrs. Ellen Battell Eldridge.
DR.. Gustave |. Stocked, who came to
the college about the same time with
President Dwight, fills the professor
ship.
To build Talmages new tabernacle
he and his people have borrowed $l25, 900
from Russell Sage. The loan will be
secured by the bonds of the board of
trustees, the value of the church lots,
and policy for $4,000 on Talmage's
life, taken out to help meet this emer-
gency. The site for the new tabernacle
cost sos, 900, and the church is to cost
$3.50, 600 more.
Over $50 men are busily employed
at present about the Stanford, Jr. Uni
versity buildings at Palo Alto, says the
San Mateo Times. Every effort is now
being made to get the fine four-story
dormitory under roof before the rains
begin. The foundations of the second
dormitory building have been laid, hut
work on the upper walls will have to
wait at present. The six school build
ings grouped around the main quad
rangle are all done, except interior
finishings. ...
The Southern Presbyterian church
has II Presbyteries, an increase of 8
over last year; l,179 ministers, an in
crease of "a; ., 400 churches, an increase
of 70; II, 400 additions on examination,
an increase of 1,499; 1863, 791 commune
cants, an increase of 7,046. The con-
tributions for all purposes have in
creased, except for education, which
has fallen off nearly $4,000 below the
unusually large sum of S54, S63 of last
year. The total for congregational
purposes and benevolence is Sl,727, 1858.
President Charles X. Adams Of
Cornell University has Just returned
from Europe. TO a reporter of the New
York Tribune he said that the Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, where hi
had spent month, were not so wei
adapted to the needs Of England at pres
ent as our colleges and universities are
TO the needs of America. They are all
he thinks, too much tied up with tradi
ton to be able to adapt themselves tt
present educational needs. He ex
pressed himself as being especially
pleased with the schools of Switzerland
which have reached high grade of per
lection, particularly the technica
schools One in Zurich alone has
chemical laboratory larger than al
those in New England put together.
.-"Ihave a little Bible at home" sal,
the bad man, .'that in 1868 | wreste(
from Sunday class of nineteen
haven't opened it since, and it is nov
as clean as the day got it." "Brin
it down some day; I'd like to see it,
said his friend, carelessly, The mex
day the bad man came into his friend
office and, throwing little half-worn
out book on the desk, he said: "Ther
she is, old man, but was little wron
about its condition. II should say So
said the other. ''How does il happe
that this little book is SO badly wor
when you thought it was clean and al
right at homer WELL" said the ba
man, and his voice was bit husky
1.-THE truth Of the matter is I've got
wife up at the house and couple {
young ones. They sometimes rummag
through my things "-Philadelphi
Press.