Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-01-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Baptist mission work in Cuba con.
tinues to prosper remarkably. There
are baptisms every week, and tho work
Is favored by many of tho officials and
educated people.
--Archdoacon Farrar says that civil
engineering in England is twenty-five
years behind that of America. He dem.
onstrates the sincerity of his belief by
sending his son to an American college
for his training in civil engineering.
| "A now movement has boon inaugur
| ated in the diocese OF Exeter, England,
in accordance with which the bishop
designates ono of the canons OF his ca
thedral who shall devote all the time
that can bo spared from his cathedral
duties to the advocacy of the cause Of
| foreign missions throughout the diocese.
"A Christian tribe, surrounded by
| pagans, has just been discovered in the
heart Of Africa. They had never seen
white man. While their religious
ideas are crude, still they have priest
hood, the cross and other emblems OF
Christianity. They are believed to have
been .exiled from Abyssinia about SOC
years ago.
The Presbyterians have theologic
al school at Saharunpur, India, which
lately sent out graduating class oi
seven trained native preachers, who are
becoming pastors OF native churches
that pay their whole salary. This is the
third class sent out by this institution,
and during the coming year there will
be over twenty students receiving in.
Observation-Disclosures.
The Russian Minister Of Finance
intends to tax the Protestant churches
in the Baltic provinces These churches
have hitherto been exempt from taxa.
tion. This is one of the series of re-
forms by which the Government intends
to thoroughly Russianize the old Baltic
German institutions and to diminish the
influence of the German Protestant
clergy.
The Christian life means at once
much less and much more than we ustA
ally think. 1t means much less. We
often think shat in becoming Christians
we must change in every part, our faces,
our walk, our methods of intellectual
operation. The old man and the new
man are supposed to be two men as diff.
ferent as beast and bird. We forget that
that old man and that new man are the
same man.
"A missionary training school is now
open at tho Baptist Tabernacle, Boston,
under the presidency of Rev. A. j. Cor
don, d. D. The object is not to inter
fere with existing educational institu.
tions, but to supply to those who are
called to missionary labor but are unable
TO avail themselves of the usual advant-
ages, the best possible training to fit
them for the work which they feel
God intends them to do.
"A great revival in Methodist mis-
sions is going on in India. Rev. E. W.
Parker reports that in the Rohilcund
district 900 adults, all firm Hindoos and
Mohammedans, were baptized the past
year. Including children who were
formerly baptized the increase in COM
municants has been over 1900. There
are LA centers of work and 463 villages
in which Christians live, the total mem.
bership being nearly 5000.
st. Paul, Mimi, is to have first.
class manual training school; $50, 900 has
been appropriated for it's erection, and
the contracts have already been given
out. There will be engine-room, foun.
dry, blacksmithing, machinist, wood.
pattern-making, carpentering
joining and wood-carving departments
all equipped in the best possible style
1t is expected to open the school next
year with full complement OF $50 pu. ',
pills.