Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Mississippi has
received from the State more than .
million dollars.
1t was favorite ambition of Pro-
fessor Mather to erect a great art build
ing at Amherst college.
The Baptist Church at Nursarava
Petta, India, of 1000 members, was re-
gently divided inso twelve, each with its
own pastor.
According to Japanese editor, the
Protestant churches have grown from
3S to Isl, and the members from 8, 700 to
1900 in the last three years.
According to the English Coigre.
gational yearbook for 1890, there are
1855 churches and mission stations in
England and Wales, an increase for the
year of SO.
What is called 'Besom Pledge"
has been introduced into the Church Of
England in connection with crusade
to make clean ''sweep" of Popery and
ritualism.
"A Chinese University has been in
corporated in New York. The institu-
ton will be wide in scope, embracing
philanthropy, literature, science and
religion. A dozen Swans from China
are expected to take charge of it.
Chicago, which has larger Bohe-
milan population than any other city in
the world, except Vienna and Prague,
dedicated its first Bohemian Protestant
Church, recently. 1t is built by the
City Mission Society of the Congrega-
tional Churches.
AT a recent meeting of the parish
of Fynunga in Vestergotland, the ques-
ton of heating the church was under
discussion, and warmly opposed by the
majority of the Practitioners. Ever
though the vicar, Pastor Fogelgoish,
finally offered to contribute the sum OF
200 crowns for the purpose, the scheme
was defeated, as being new tangled
innovation"
Rev. Henry Preble, who resides nea,
Waterville, is one of the oldest minis
tiers in Maine, and it is thought that his
horse has carried him over more miles
of Maine roads than have been SINH
larly travelled by any other preacher in
the State. He has driven his own rig
over ninety thousand miles in the forty.
five years which he spent in active serv-
ice of the Lord. He used to travel
from ten to sixty miles to attend meet.
ings, and he has never failed to keep
an engagement.
Harvard University is to have q
beautiful and exclusive possession in a
very valuable collection of glass flow
ers made by secret process by Dresden
firm named Blatcka. Three hundred OF
four hundred specimens have beer
already received. The collection, when
complete, will illustrate all the familiei
of plants in North America, all economic
plants and the more important of the
lower plants, including enlarged parts
and sections of the finer details of plants
for study. Mrs. Ware, of Boston, is the
donor of this valuble addition to the ia
cilities of the university. =
Rev. Theodore Pryor, DID,, fur
nishes the following: Fifty years ago
John Ii. Rice, of Richmond, Va, went
North to beg aid for Hampden Sidney
College. In Philadelphia a poor wash
erwoman said to him; L and my chill
dren live from day to day from my
labor. After hearing your appeal fol
the college yesterday went home anC
tasted, and now | bring you for the col
lege the amount l saved by the fasting.
DR.. Rice said that was the greatest con
tribution of all the great gifts he raised
during that trip. "-Richmon Religious
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