Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-06-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Baptist strength in Philadel-
phia is seventy-two churches, twenty
missions, 22,7bO members and Sl,2@7 in
the Sunday schools.
The register of the university of
California shows a total of T66 students
in the different departments The uni
versity includes the college of letters
and five colleges Of science at Berkeley,
the Lick astronomical department Mt
Mt. Hamilton and the Hastings college
of law, the medical department and the
colleges of dentistry and pharmacy in
San Francisco. a... .rI
The use of stereopticons on mission
ground is becoming more and more
general and especially in India is very
advantageous. DR.. S. b. Fairbank, of
Ahinadnagar, 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 Chill, South America,
is 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 ontcast
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 cover 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 never 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 case be trial to ones
nerves, but especially so when the two
happen to be the Arch bishop of Canter-
bury, DIR. 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
rupted him with: 81 think, sir, as there
i are only two of us, 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 a
letter dated April 81 she promises tc
give 100000 to be added to the WON
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
4 be opened women would be admitted t.
it on the same terms as men, has nov
reached the sum of SILL 800, and was
handed over to the trustees May
The additional sum of 500, 900, to b.
contributed by Miss Garrett, is mad
dependent upon the trustees having il
hand on or before February 1, 1892, tn
remainder of the sum necessary to com
plete the endowmento of $500, OO0-name
ly, S219. 2195s -and upon the opening O
the school in October, 1892, and ha
been accepted by them with these an
the other conditions attached. TIL
baltimore committee met, and, afte
passing vote of thanks to Miss Carrot
for this last munifcent gift decided t
disband.