Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-09-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Gammon Theological Seminary has
received valuable donation of books
from Rev. Oliver Burgess, of Cleve-
land, 0.
Miss Misao Tsuni Hirate San, who
is the daughter ofaa Japanese noble
man, came to this country four years
ago at the age of nineteen years. She
is now about to return home to work as
Christian missionary among her coun-
trymen, Notwithstanding the strenuous
opposition of her father.
One of the oldest uses of the Nicene
Creed is that which it is applied to by
the women of ancient Nic@e, where
the creed was in great part originally
formulated. They recite it after put
ting eggs in a pot to boil as a measure
of the time needed to cook them. 1t is
said that they do this without any idea
of irreverence.-The Churchman.
The building which Elder Alexan-
der Campbell, the founder of the Chris
tian or Campbellite denomina ton, first
preached in isstill standing at Bethany,
w. Va. The Complexities of Martins
vile, Ind, have decided to remove the
edifice intact and place it on their as
sembly ground at Bethany Park, near
Brooklyn, where it can be preserved.
Tho latest report of the work of the
'Slum Eyangels'' in London shows that
the number of workers has increased
from two to eighty. They give their
whole time to toulouse vista
tions, to nursing the sick, feeding the
hungry and doing gospel work Though
they were coolly received at first, they
succeeded in winning welcome from
those among whom they labor In one
year more than hundred young wom-
en- were rescued and six thousand chill
dren were cared for.
Maria Housington, Springfield,
Mass, left $1,000 for the American
Board of Foreign Missions, 81, for
the New West Education Commission,
$500 to the Woman's Board OF Missions,
$500 to the American Missionary AS.
sociation, and $500 to other missionary
work. All these bodies are largely en-
gagged in benefting women. The
women teachers who represent the New
West Education Commission in Utah
have manifested courage equal to any
recorded in the annals of woman's
heroism
Miss Lillian Blanche Fearing, the
only lady in this years graduating
class at the Union College of Law
Chicago is entirely blind. During
the course her mother was her con
slant companion, and read from the
books to her, Miss Fearing was one O
four students whose records were Sc
nearly equal that the committee ap
pointed to award the scholarship prize
of fifty dollars decided to divide
equally among the four The blint
student has already been admitted t.
the Illinois bar by the Supreme Cour
at Springfield, and gives promise o
making brilliant mark in her pro
fession.
To speak in a general way, neithe
Elihu Yale nor John Harvard CAV
enough money to the founding of col
lege to support modern young gentle
man through his college course. Man
senior has spent this year more none
than the $500 or the portion of half tn
Ell, 500 which Mr. Yale and Mr.. Harvar
respectively devised to the institution
which bear their names. But, as Lor
Coleridge said when he was on visi
to this country and was told that Wash
ington once threw silver dollar acros
the Potomac: MEN could make dolla
60 farther in those days than now."-
Boston Transcript
Our city school buildings should b
models of architecture. New Yor
should present to the world object les
sons that every body could copy. {
course it would cost. Let it cost. w
can better afford to be extravagant her
than anywhere else. Look at many c
our churches. They are standing oil
ject-pictures to the whole country, tn
best the world has ever seen. But "
can not say this about our school-house
In many respects they are the wors
considering the vast number of childre
to be cared for in them, and the resul
demanded of their teachers. N.
School journal.