The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-06-05


The baptist strength In Philadel-
phia is seventy-tw0 churches, twenty
missions. g, $50 members and 3i,227 u
the Sunday-schools-
The register ~ the university OF
California shows . total Of 7d6 students
In the different departments The uni
versity includes the college Of letters
and Ave colleges Of science a Berkeley,
the Lick astronomical department -
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. DR.. >. b. Fairbanks. Of
Ahmadnagar. finds that IL enables him
70 draw larger audiences, and reach
them more forcibly at = time when
both men and women are free from the
labor Of the day. II appears also that
. large portion Of the attendants are
women OF all castles. whom IL would be
impossible 10 reach in any other way.
Education in Chill. South America,
Il ~gratuitous and at the cost Of the
state. 1t is divided in superior or pro-
fessional, 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 and colleges established in
the capitals Of provinces, and in some
departments The branches included
are 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 Wesleyans and Congregational
lists Of London are relieving the outcast
poor Of the metropolis by thousands In
one week the London Congregational
union gave shelter to three thousand
four hundred and forty-seven homeless
beings. most Of them from the rural dis
tricts, for ''over . third of the popula-
ton were not born within its bounds"
The shelter" halls give "a little coffee
and a few buns TO the most needy" on
Sunday. and then the Gospel is preach
ed to these people. who neve enter
churches, in the same halls where sleep
and food have been afforded.-Iowa
State Register.
Preaching a trial sermon in pres
ence Of an audience Of only two per-
sons, must in any ease be q trial TO ones
nerves. but especially 50 when the two
happen to be the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, DR.. TAFT. and Dean Stanley. We
read of such an unfortunate young
candidate for priests ORDERS 50
preaching in that rather awful pres
ence. In his confusion he stammered
out, as he began, II will divide my con-
gregation into two-the converted and
the unconverted." DR.. TAFT inter-
rupted him with: II think. sir. As there
are only two Of rs, you had better say
which is which. "-Chicago Standard.
Miss Mary E. Garrett has offered
another munifcent gift TO the trustees
Of the Johns Hopkins University. In .
letter dated April "a she promises to
give 500. 900 to be added to the wom-
ems fund for the medical school Of the
university. This fund, which was &c
cepted BY the university in October last
on conditionthat when the school should
b opened women would be admitted to
Il on the same terms Is men, has now
reached the sum Of Sill. 800. and was
handed over TO the trustees May 1.
The additional sum Of el00. 900. TO b
contributed by Miss Garrett, is made
dependent upon the trustees having in
hand on or before February I, 1902, the
remainder Of the sum necessary TO com
plete the endowment Of $500. O0O-name-
ly. 21o.2la5s-and upon the opening Of
the school in October. 1892, and has
been accepted by them with these and
the other conditions attached. Tho
Baltimore committee met, and. after
passing o vote Of thanksto Miss Garrett
for this last munificent gift. decided to
disband.