The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Baptist strength In Philadel.
phia is seventy-two churches, twenty
missions, 29,75O members and s1,s27 in
the Sunday-schools
There are now over $4,000 local so
cietics of Christian endeavor in thirty
two evangelical denominations. The
Presbyterians lead, the Congregational
lists next, then the Baptists, and the
Methodists are fourth. Each of these
four denominations have over 1000, the
Presbyterians having $500.
The register of the university OF
California shows total of 766 students
in the different departments The uni
versity includes the college of letters
and five colleges of science at Berkeley,
Mt Hamilton and the Hastings college
of law, the medical department and the
colleges of dentistry and pharmacy in
San Francisco.
The use of stereopticons on mission
ground is becoming more and more
general, and especially in India is very
advantageous. DIR. S. b. Fairbank, of
Ahmadnagar, finds that it enables him
to draw larger audiences, and reach
them more forcibly at time when
both men and women are free from the
labor of the day. 1t appears also that
a large portion of the attendants are
women of all castles, whom it would be
impossible to reach in any other way.
Education in Chilli South America,
Is gratuitous and at the cost of the
state. 1t is divided in superior or pro-
fcssional, medium or secondary, and
primary or elementary instruction.
Professional and secondary instruction
is provided in the university and the
National institute of Santiago, and in
the lyceums ana colleges established in
the capitals OF provinces and in some
departments. The branches included
arc law, mathematics, medicines and
fine arts. These are besides normal,
agricultural and other special schools.
There were nine hundred and fifty pub
lie schools.
The Wcsleyans and Congregational
lists of London arc relieving the ontcast
poor of the metropolis by thousands. In
one week the London Congregational
union gave shelter to three thousand
four hundred and forty-scvcn homeless
beings, most of them from'the rural dis
tricts, for cover third of the popula-
ton were not born within it's bounds.
The ''shelter" halls give "a little coffee
and a Jew buns to the most needy" on
Sunday, and then the Gospel is preach
ed to these people, who never enter
churches, in the same halls where sleep
and food have been afforded.
Preaching trial sermon in pres
ence of an audience of only two per-
sons, must in any case be trial to ones
nerves, but especially SO when the two
happen to be the Arch bishop of Canter-
bury, DR.. TAFT, and Dean Stanley. We
read of such an unfortunate young
candidate for priests orders" so
preaching in that rather awful pres
ence In his confusion he stammered
out, as he began, 81 will divide my con-
gregation into two-the converted and
the unconverted." Dr. TAFT inter-
rupted him with: 81 think, sir, as there
are only two of us, you had better say
which is which. Chicago Standard.
Miss Mary E. Garrett has offered
another munificent Gift to the trustees
of the Johns Hopkins University. In a
letter dated April q she promises to
give $100,OOO to be added to the wom-
ems fund for the medical school of the
university. This fund, which was ac-
cepted by the university in October last
on conditionthat when the school should
he opened women would be admitted to
1t on the same terms as men, has now
reached the sum of Sill. 800, and was
handed over to the trustees May l.
The additional sum of 100000 to be
contributed by Miss Garrett, is made
dependent upon the trustees having in
hand on or before February 1, 1892, the
remainder of the sum necessary to COM
plete the endowment of $500, OOO-name-
ly, $219,219.5S-andu upon the opening of
the school in October, 1899. and has
been accepted by them with these and
the other conditions attached. The
Baltimore committee met, and, after
passing a vote of thanks to Miss Garrett
for this last muniticcnt gift, decided to
disband.