Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

is the custom one day in autumn to take
the pupils out rabbit-hunting.
Rev, DIR. J. G. X. Mcclure, pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Lake Forest,
H., has been elected president pro tenn,
of Lake Forest university in place of
DR.. Roberts, who recently resigned.
Fifty years ago there was not ma.
tive Christian on the FIJI islands; now
there is not heather. Not long since
forty volunteers responded to call for
fifteen native missionaries for danger
onsand unhealthy work in New Guinea.
DIR, Herbert Vaughn, who succeeds
Cardinal Manning as archbishop Of
Westminster, is one of a family of seven
brothers who all became Catholic priests,
DR.. Vaughn was once member of the
crack British Life guards, and in his
bearing he still preserves some of the
dash and erectness of the soldier.
Two hundred charitable bequests
were made in London lastyear, amount
ing to S7,5O0,O00. Inquiries have re-
vealed the fact that one-fifth of this
went to charity. The total increase of
all charitable institutions in London
for 1881 was $4,000, OOO Home and for.
eign mission received Sl0,0OO,00 of this
aggregate.
Mrs. +. NJ. Dryden, manager of the
American Lutheran school for girls, AT
Guntoor, South India, has applied foi
space in the Woman's building for an
exhibit of work from that institution
The display will be made under the
patronage of Lady Wemlock. wife OF
the resident governor, and through the
assistance of the nizam (Mohammedar
king of Hyderabad.
If Boston does not witness very
soon marked religious and moral up
lifting it will not be the fault of the
church workers of the city. There is
not denomination which has not en-.
tered upon some line of practical work
among the people in its vicinity or in
the crowded sections of the city. The
work has been exclusively religious
but has touched both the physical an6
social needs of the masses.
Over 1900 Mormons attended the
first days session of the sixty-second
annual conference of the Church oi
Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints al
Salt Lake City, Utah, last week One
of the speakers, Apostle Richards, dc
clared that those people who believed
that they had received all the revela'
ton that they were to get are mistaken
and that more was to come. President
George Q. Cannon spoke hopefully on
| the future, and said the church was ad-
vaneing with mighty strides.
The twenty-five Congregations
churches reporting to the Manhattan
association show total membership
of II ,946. There have beeen 1,245 addi
tions during the past year, of which
623 have been by confession. The Sun
day-school scholars number 1901. The
home expenditures have been S223,-
0SS.34, and the benevolent contributions
O,619.51. Foreign missions have re
ceived S24, 723.55; home missions, s35,
131. .42; church building, $40, ,7S1. II, anc
the American Missionary association
sS, 1880.
The university of Pennsylvania has
recently received gift of nearly three
quarters of million of dollars for te
erection of biological and anatomica
museum to cost nearly 5000, 900, and a
yearly endowment of $4,000 for it,
maintenance. The donor desired that
his name should not be published unit
all the design had been completed ant
the "Wistar institute of anatomy
founded; but it has transpired that tn!
generous donor is Gen. Isaac J. Wistar
of Philadelphia, whose uncle, DIR. Casper
Wistar, was at one time professor in the
medical department of the university
for whom the proposed building is in
tended as a memorial.-N. Y. Medica
Record