Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-07-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

1t Is said that 90, 900 Chinese en-
braced Christianity last year.
Tho membership OF tho Methods
Church grows at the rate OF $50 eacl
day.
Out of total membership in tn
city of Richmond, Va, OF s5, 900, tn,
colored Baptists have $1,000.
| Hamilton College, which will cele
brate its centennial ere long, has has
2,o05 alumni, OF whom 1854 are liv
ing.
Tho absence of any kind OF anxiet,
for the spread OF tho truth implies spir
itual paralysis, II 1t does not imply
| spiritual death. Canon Liddon.
Tho boy who has his physical and
mental powers under control. and un-
derstands tho best methods of using
those powers, is educated. j. A. Cooper.
God only imparts the highest wis
dom, the most profound secrets, the most
mysterious laws of His Kingdom to
minds most open to spiritual influence.
and most susceptible TO Divine thought.
The promises of the Bible. like the
beams OF the sun, shine as freely in at
the window OF the poor mans cottage as
the rich mans palace. mountain Of
gold heaped up high as Heaven would
be no such treasure AS one promise OF
God.
I'm Hawaii schools are established
NIL over the islands, the sum allotted to
public instruction in 1ss6-'s3 being
ss05, 0sO annually. In 1883 there were
is0 schools, with s.770 pupils; of these,
there we're $3.50 IIawaiians and 1897
half castles.
The sixty-hfth annual mooting Of
the American Tract Society was recent
ly held in Now York. The receipts OF
the benevolent department during tho
year were $4,000; the expenditures
wero Si34, 1850. The expenditures OF the
business department were S26i, 414, ex-
cecding the receipts OF that department
by S0,GG4.
Tho native churches In Japan, un-
der the caro- of the American Board,
organized, half dozen years ago, a
Homo Missionary Society. 1t has -four
ished so woll that the demands OF the
work now justify tho appointment OF q
paid president. who will devote all his
time TO establishing now churches and
strengthening those already existing.
in Montenegro, schools for element
ary instruction arc supported by tho
Governments; education Is compulsory
and FREQ OF charge. In 1880 Montenegro
had 70 elementary schools, with about
Q. 900 male. but only 800 female pupils
All males under the ago OF twenty-five
and over ten arc supposed to be able to
read and write. The country has the
ological seminary and gymnasium or
college for boys at Cctinje. and
girls high-school is maintained at the
charge OF tho Empress OF Russia.
The Indian Commissioner has asked
for an increase OF about $500, 900 over the
appropriation for tho current year for
the maintenance of Indian education.
For eight years, beginning with 1875.
there was an annual average increase OF
s5 per cent. In appropriations for this
purpose, but for the last five or six years
there has been practically no increase,
and in 1887 even reduction. The Com
missioner is but doing his duty in re-
minding us that IL the Indian children
are to he made self-supporting citizens,
and not continued as dependent pauper
wards of the Government, this cduca-
tional work must he done, and Congress
ought not TO hesitate to provide for 1t
-Harper's Weekly