The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-05-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

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travel-Ram's Horn.
The late P. T. Bnrnum, OF Bridge
port, conn., gave the First Baptist So
ciety the sum of S45, 900 for theirchnrch
edifce, In order that they might get a
moro eligible site, and the old structure
will be torn down and business block
put mp in It's place
God wills and things are; that Is
divine omnipotcncc- Things are, and
man wills them; that is human wisdom
Things arc, man wills them, and that,
too, as God wills, when He wills, and be-
Cause He wills; that is Christian philoso-
phy.-Mmc. Elizabeth Of France.
Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins. who Is
living near Gainesville, Ca, has been
consistent member of the Methodist
church for more than hundred years
She was born in Pickcns county, near
Andersonville, S. c.. March 8, ITO, and
joined the church when only nine years
of age. She is one hundred and twelve
years old, md for more than twenty
years has been member Of Mt Zion
church in Georgia Christian at Work.
! C-AccordiDg to advanced summaries
of the Congregational statistics, there
are 4,S23 churches. 4 net gain OF 134
during the year: 4,G19 ministers, de-
crease Of 21: and SOC. 1872 members, an
increase Of about 5000. OF baptisms
| there are 70, 54} Of sadults, and 9, 500 OF
infants, the latter showing an increase
Of over |, 600, and the former a decrease
of about 200. The total of benevolent
contributions is s2,267, $50, indicating
q decrease of Sl3O,G5
From inquiries which have been
made at Paris, it appears that last year
there were LOTT foreign students there,
and this is represented as fair aver
age. The Germans amounted to only 10,
while the AustrianS numbered one less.
There were 1874 british students, and
2gG Russians and Poles. The Balkan
Peninsula sent the large contingent OF
315-Grccks. Turks. Roumanians, Ser
VANS and Bulgarians being included in
this category. The schools of medicine
and law appropriated by far the great
or mum Der, for while 100 attended the
former, 1872 attended the latter. The
faculty of theology only had one for
cign student Pittsburgh Dispatch
According to the will of the late
Nancy S. Howe, of Winchester, which
has been filed with the clerk of the
MiddleseX Probate court at East Cam
bridge, the following requests have
been made: American Home Mission
airy Society, $1,000; American Congre-
gational Society, So 900; Orthodox Con-
grcgational Church of Winchester,
Womcn's Board of Missions, and Wo-
mems Home Missionary Association,
81, 900 each; proposed public library, to
be known rs Symcs Memorial Library,
1000. Her real estate is willed to the
town of Winchester for the erection of
the proposed town house and public
library The residue after deducting
numerous bequcsts TO relatives, is
willed in equal parts to the American
Board of Foreign Missions, American
Bible Society, and congregational
Union. boston Transcript
Ono hundred years ago girls were
not a lowed to attend any of the public
schools Of the country. When the first
high school for girls was opened in
Boston, in 1925, there was such an out
cry against the innovation, and so many
girls applied for admission that after n
year or so the scheme was abandoned,
and was not attempted until 1853
In 1774 the first academy for
womon was opened by Moravians
in Pennsylvania in 1850 the first semi
nary. for women in New England was
inauguratcd in New bedford. Massa.
chusetts, and Mary Lyon, in 1886,
founded college for women in that
state on the broadcast basis ever before
attempted. Oberlin college was opened
on the co-educational plan In 1883, and
Antioch college in 1852. But these were
innovations which met with much dis
cussion and opposition, even among
women themselves--Young Mems Era