The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-10-07
SCHOOL AND cHuRc

"A Sanskirt school for Hindoo Il q
has been opened in Calcutta. 81
1T is now just 100 years since Pfl
estant missionary work was begun
India. #
"A new theological seminary W
been established by the synod of KeA
lucky Of the Presbyterian church souflh
at Louisville, KY.
| There are 4s5 missionaries on tI19|
staff OF the London city missions
| French, Germans, Spanfards snd other
foreigners are employed to reach ce
tain classes.
| Prof. William S. Tyler, for a
| years the loved and honored profes
of Greek at Amherst college. Mas
chusetts, often called s'the Annie
Socrates" is to retire from his positi
and devote himself to the preparat
| of book.
Mrs. Sarah b. Cooper, who arg
lied the first kindergarten in s.;
Francisco in 1880, has received Iiors !
than s3oo,o0 to enable her to cary on
the work. There are now sixtf fiva
kindergartens in the city, and hore q
than 10000 children have been trained /
| in them.
Many Stundists now in banishnAnt
in Transcaucasia will petition the car
to change their place of exile i
Siberia, were agricultural land Is
plentiful and where they may have
some chance of making living. Now
they are entirely dependent upon the
charity of their friends.
| Seventy young men have gone from
the Evangelists' home, birmingham. to
preach in England and abroad. Their
work is on nonsectarian lines, and their
labors have been wonderfully-succ
full. Mr.. Adell is about to build q large
hall in the thickly populated part OF
Birmingham, to gather in the neglected
masses.
| Fifty years ago there were twenty z
four professors in the university Of
Cambridge, of whom five only were lay
men. There are now forty professors,
OF whom, excluding the professors Of.
divinity, only three are in holy orders:
while at Oxford, of the forty-eight pro
fessors, excluding the professors az
divinity, again only three are c1ergy-
men. Nineteenth Century.
Rev. M. M. vancleave, pastor 81 the
baptist church at Crawfordsville, ind.
has the enviable ministerial record III
having married seven hundred and sig
ty couples. This venerable Clergyman.
has preached the Gospel for nearly
eighty years, and the good, old fash
ioned ceremony with which he ties the
nuptial knot neatly and with dispatch
makes the ordeal a pleasure evensto the
most bashful swain.
1t was decided by the Her9hanns-
burgh missionaries among the Zulus,
after holding a conference, to abolish
the prevailing custom among the ma
tives OF exchanging girls and won
for cattle. Strange to say, 49,
tian converts refuse to subj
innovation. and have dema. A
missionaries that they prov 4
from the Scriptures that it woaH
unlawful for them to sell their iiaugh-
ters for cattle.
-Nagasaka, the educated Jap who
fell in love with the Salvation army at
Adelphi theater, San Francisco, is now,
on his way to London to lay the claims
OF japan before Gen. Booth Since his
conversion Nagasal<a has been. busy
translating the army literature into his
own language, and some two hundre
army songs, besides the generals hoh
ness readings, pamphlets, explanator,
OF the Salvation army, are now to b.
found in the hieroglyphics OF Nagas
ka's vernacular. ~ -,
AT the French government agricul-
tural colleges students may enter at
fourteen years of age, after strict ex-
animation in general knowledge. They
pay nearly ninety dollars per annum
for tuition. board and lodging, and the
course lasting three years. There 81.
free scholarships. There are auto
class rooms, laboratories, also naturrtE
history collections. Each day fsI
hours are given to practical work and
five to lectures and class work. Each
boy in turn spends week in the
kitchen, and a week in taking up and
bringing in vegetables from farm or
garden. They study chemistry, botany,
geology, animal physiology, veterle She
science and carpentry. one' nll@
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