The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

--McGill University, Montreal, has
received $3.50. 600 from Sir Donald
Smith, to esta blish 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 un-
usually active this year, building a
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.
The great Shanghai conference ap-
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, 600 from Mrs. Ellen Battell Eldridge.
DR.. Gustave l. Stoeckel, who came to
the college about the same time with
President Dwight, fills the professor
ship.
To build Talmage's new tabernacle
he and his people have borrowed s125, 600
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 S25,0 900 on Talmage's
life, taken out to help meet this emer-
gency. The site for the new tabernacle
$3.50, 900 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
fnishings.
The Southern Presbyterian church
has II Presbyteries, an increase of 8
over last year; l,179 ministers, an in
crease of "a; 2, 400 churches, an increase
of 70; II, 400 additions on examination,
an increase of 1,499; 1853, 791 commune
cants, an increase of 7046 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 $54, 1868 of last
year. The total for congrega tional
purposes and benevolence is 81, 727, 263.
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 he
had spent a month, were not SO well
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.
tion to be able to adapt themselves tc
present educational needs He ex'
pressed himself as being especially
pleased with the schools of Switzerland,
which have reached high grade of per,
fection, particularly the technical
schools. One in Zurich alone has
chemical laboratory larger than all
those in New England put together.
-"Ihave little Bible at home," said
the bad man, ''that in 1868 l wrosted
from Sunday school class of nineteen.
haven't opened it since, and it is now
as clean as the day l got it." Bring
it down some day; I'd like to see 1t"
said his friend, carelessly. The next
day the bad man came into his friends
Office and, throwing little half-worn'
out book on the desk, he said: There
she is, old man, but was little wrona
about its condition" Il should say so,'
said the other. "How does it happen
that this little book is so badly worn
when you thought it was clean and all
right at home?' ''Well," said the bad
man, and his voice was a bit husky,
1.-The truth Of the matter is I've got
wife up at the house and a couple OF
young ones They sometimes rummage
through my things. s."-Philadelphis
Press.