Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There is Friends Mission at Ram
sallah, in Palestine, ten miles north OF
Jerusalem.
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 tho animal called
the iguana; now they eat it. The mis-
sionaries have brought about the
change.
According to tho recent census Of
Switzerland, the Republic contained L.
700, 900 Protestents, 100000 Catholics,
$500 Jews, and 10,7OO adherents of no
religion.
DR.. William Lomax, of Indiana,
has given his entire estate, amount
ing to over S1O0,00O, to the Indl-
ana Medical College, of Indianapolis,
the only condition being the payment
of small annuity 10 the donor and his
wife during their lives, and the reserva-
tion Of their homes to them.
Africa has now within her borders
10 American, ~ British and 13 Conti-
mental missionary societies. There are
more than 700 ordained missionaries
and moro than 1000 native preachers.
1t is estimated that there are, both
white and native, about IT'S, 900 COM
,opp tc nd QOO mn
Clark University will next year be-
gin course in the history and princi-
Piles 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 superintendents and
principals t-.'
The teachers guild in London has
over four thousand members. IT. pro-
poses to ask Parliament to pass stat
ute for the registration of teachers that
shall require as condition of registra.
tion, after three years, satisfactory evi-
dence of knowledge of the history
theory and practice of education. and
like evidence of practical efficiency and
experience as teacher
Ono of the most significant signs o.
the educational times is the disappear
ance of the elderly college president
Young men are pressing forward, and
the older gentlemen are very content tt
step aside for some more easy-going
place The truth is, the presidency o
college is largely place for the ex
ercise of business shrewdness. The
young men may be less venerable, bu
they make things rush. Chicago News
The Missionary Review says; "Nt
mission in the world, perhaps, car
show more notable record than tina
of the Canadian Presbyterian church il
China. At the end of sixteen years
work. and with small staff of labor
ers, it reports 1850 baptized members
two native pastors, sixty-four elders
sixty deacous, and thirty-seven nativ
preachers, 1t maintains two mission
houses, fifty chapels, girls school
and training college. The credit o
these results is due, under God, to DR.
Mackay, one of those remarkable mel
who are born missionaries
"A successful Baptist pastor foun
it necessary, because of failing health
to 60 into secular business. in takin;
the position of layman he would beg
all correspondents to do him the favo
of emitting the title of reverend in hi
address," Tho Christian Inquirer say
of this request: "There is a straight
forward manliness about this thing tha
we like. While we do not think al
men who go out of the active duties c
ministerial life should abandon tn
ministry entirely, we feel sure tina
some are so employed that ministeria
attachment to their names is simpl