Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Il
The Transvnal Volksraad has ap
propriated 100000 for tho endow.
ment Of the first college OF the Ro
public
Mount Union College. Ohio. ro'
Gently put women on its board OF trus.
toes. among them Miss Frances E.
Willard
The effort to effect union bo
tween the United Church OF Christ
in Japan and tho Congregational
churches Of that empire has failed. a
least for tho present.
Southeastern Maine has some
rather venerable academies. That o.
South Berwick was incorporated il
1871 and those at Fryeburg and Eas
Machias the year following.
The city Of New York has GOO Sun
day-schools. with total OF 1S7.0OC
scholars and teachers. Philadelphia
has GIG Sunday-schools, with tota
OF 1876, S02 teachers aud scholars.
The seminary for girls recently
completed by the Cherokee Nation has
all the modern conveniences except
elevators and electric lights. -Four
Cherokee girls will act as teachers.
Tho Nashville Christian Adv ocatc
says: Tho African Methodist church,
which has not white man among Its
members or any organic relations with
any white church organization. re-
ports membership OF AGO. 00o."
The report OF the Primitive Meth.
odist Sunday-school Union. OF En-.
gland, shows that there are 4.232
schools in the denomination, this be-
ing an increase OF 4S over last year.
There are 62. teachers and 43o. GA
scholars.
There are now 500 American
schools in Turkey. all of which, except
one, are open daily. An order was
recently made by the Turkish Govern
ment prohibiting any Interference
with the schools. which has boon i'm
peded and interfered with by tho local
authorities
The w. c. T. U. parlor in the
Anna NJ. Kellogg Memorial Hall, a,
Chautauqua was recently formally
dedicated. This building, with its
furnishings and grounds. is TO be used
for women's classes, meetings and in
terests, and IS the loving tribute OF q
philanthropio son to noble mother.
The Icelanders are numerous
enough in this country and Canada TO
maintain distinct and vigorous re-
ligious organization Of their own. 1t
is called the Icelandic Lutheran church
OF America, consists OF twenty-five
congregations, and has just held its
fifth annual conference at Argyle. in
Manitoba
An examination OF 6S2 pupils Of
Memphis public schools showed only
five per cent TO be near-sighted, but
other defects OF vision existed in six
t,en per cent. About New York it is
much more common than former y
to see children wearing glasses, but
this is in part due to the increase OF
visual defects and partly to the fact
that physicians and parents are CIV
ing more attention to such defects
than they used to.
To-day 81 missionary societies arc
at work in Africa, and all its 200, 000.-
900 souls arc practically within tho
reach of Christian missions; SO soci-
cites have begun work in China. and
all its $50. 900, 900 souls may be visit
ed with the message OF the Gospel;
more than so societies have entered
India. and the light is dawning upon
It's 100000. 900. Turkey and Persia
and Japan are filing with mission
churches and mission schools. Prac-
tically the whole world is open, and
the grandest day OF opportunity for
the kingdom OF God that the earth has
ever seen has fully dawned.