Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 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.,
100000 Professionals, 1900, 900 Catholics,
$500 Jews, and 10000 adherents of no
religion.
DR.. William Lomax, of Indiana,
has given his entire estate, amount
ing to over 100000, to the 1ndi-
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, 12 British and IS Conti-
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 175, 900 COM
municants and 500, coo adherents.
Clark University will next year be-
gin a course in the history and princi-
pies OF education, consisting of lectures
and conferences, courses of reading,
setc. 1t is designed for those who wish
to qualify themselves to. fill chairs of
pedagogics in colleges and normal
schools, and for superintendent and
principals.
The teachers guild. in London has
over four thousand. members. 1t pro-
poses to ask Parliament to pass 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 seducation. and
like evidence of practical effic. ency and
experience as teacheE.
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 a 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: NO
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, sixty-four elders,
sixty daacons, and thirty-seven native
preachers. 1t maintains two mission
houses, fifty chapels, girls school,
and trainingcollege. 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 a layman he would beg
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 go 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
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