The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The foreign missions OF the Dutch
church received in the year just closed
f112, 7s19s.
North Avenue Baptist church, Cam.
bridge, Mass, gave during the past
year s9,077 for benevolence, and for cur
rent expenses s5,012.
PROT Slocum. of Corning, N. Y, has
been elected president of Kalamazoo
college, and Corning is disguised at the
thought of its favoritc accepting such
D post-ofice address.
Miss Hannah Fairchild, of West
port, Conn.,, is in her seventy-eighth
year. She has been member of Christ
church for fifty-five years, and has not
missed a service during that period.
The Methodist general conference
has decided in favor of equal represent
tation of lay and clerical delegates.
The pews are rapidly taking equal place
with the pulpit in directing the policy
OF this great church organiza ton.
There is no missionary in Afganis-
tan, with her 5000, 900 people. AMMAN
with 100000, has only Roman Cath
Ole missionaries. India has one mis-
sionary to 1000 people; Persia, one to
800, 900; Thibet, one to 1000, OOO.-Mis-
sionary Review.
The new Congregational church at
Butteville, Ore, consists of ten women,
without single male member. Its
deacons, trustees and other officers are
women, and the charge to the church
was given to woman minister, Rev.
Mrs. Barber, of Wilsonville-Jewis
Messenger.
England, with ninety-four univer-
stiles, has 2,72S more professors and ST.
S14 more students than the $50 UNIVERSE
ties in the United States. The revenues
of Oxford and Cambridge represent
capital of about s75,OOO,OOO. The uni
versity of Leipsic is worth nearly s2O,-
00O,0 00.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The state college of Delaware, has
curious and tragic touch in its history.
The university was established in 1884,
but during the whole decade between
1860 and 1870 it's doors were closed, APP
parently for good. It's coma came of
the Staying of one student by another.
A son of the chancellor of the state was
accused of the crime. but the evidence
was insufficient to hold him, and others
brought to trial for the crime were
cleared. When the next college year
following the tragedy opened so few
students returned that the institution
was closed.
The United Methodist Free
churches, at their recent meeting, re-
ported in the denomination at home
and abroad "7s ministers and 77,T1O
members: of these 6S ministers and 1O,-
SO members are abroad; the income
has been s131, 42o One characteristic
Of the meeting was that every item on
the programme was timed, the time be-
ing placed in bold figures on the wall
so that everybody could see when each
speech would begin and when it would
end. The effect was that the figures
were adhered to, there being scarcely
an instance of any speaker overpassing
his allotted time.
Thirty years ago there was not a
school in all the southern states for
,olored people, and of the 100000
slaves set at liberty only seven and one
half in each thousand could read. To
day not less than 2,250,O00 colored peo-
pie in the southern states can read.
The United States commissioner of ed
ucation reports over 21,CoO schc OILS for
negroes that form part of the public
school system of the south, il which
are enrolled more than 100000 boys
and girls. At the present time there
are in all the southern states about
seventy institutions for the higher ed
ucation of negroes, where the grad
yates are prepared to teach their own
people In these schools are about
1000 teachers and 10000 pupils. Chi
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