The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Ready-mades sermons may be bought
at two places in London.
C-Michigan legislators have defeated
a bill proposing to tax church property.
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer has given $780,
600 to Columbia college, New York city.
-Baptists possess 1872, ooo, 900 of school
property and endowments in the United
States.
DIR. John G. Patton has been able TO
give S25. 900 to his work in the New
Hebrides, from the profits OF his auto
biography.
1t is calculated that there are 5000
Protestant missionaries AT work in the
world. being l to every 100, ZOO of the
unevangelized.
Mrs. Magnusson, the vice-president
for Iceland of the Worlds W. c. j. e.,
has founded girls school in Iceland.
1t is the only one among 10000 inhab-
itants.
Negotiations are in progress for
the establishment of an Australasian
college in Rome, the funds for which
will be subscribed by Catholics through
out Australasia.
One Congregational church in Hon
olulu raises annually s35, 900 for reli-
gious, educa tional and missionary pur-
poses-an average of $40 per mem ber.-
Central Congregationalist.
Bronze doors cast IN one piece and
decorated with panels carved in relief
are Mr. William Waldorf Astor's gift
to Trinity chuIch in memory of his
father the late John Jacob Astor.o
The first Christian church built in
England is said to have been erected at
Glastonbv. Somerset, about the first
century. 1t was sixty feet long, and
thirty-six broad, and made OF rods,
wattled or interviewer.
The bishopric of Natal, South AZ
RIGA, which has been practically ex-
tinct since the death of Bishop Colenso
in 1868, has been revived by the APP
pointment to that see of Rev. Arthur
Hamilton Bayne, of Greenwich, En-
g and.
Andrew y. White, of Cornell uni
versity, writes: Let me say that l
never knew Young student to smoke
cigarettes who did not disappoint eX-
pectations. / have watched this for
thirty years and can not recall single
exception to the rule"
The pope's will has been made for
many years. The document is in Latin,
and begins with a humble confession
of human weakness and appeals to the
merits of our Lord and al the saints.
In it Leo XIII. distinctly disclaims all
personal inclination in the matter of
the choice of his successor.
At the request of the board OF man.
ayers of the American Sabbath union,
George S. Mott, ID, chairman of
sabbath observance committee of the
synod of New Jersey, has accepted the
position of acting president of the union
for the present, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the late
Col. Elliott F. Shepard.
The leading Protestant missions in
the Empire of japan are as follows:
American board, churches 81. members,
10. 100; Presbyterians, churches "a;
mem bers l.19O: American NJ. T.,
churches IS, members 3,1l4; Canada NJ.
f, churches %, mem bers ! ,760: Amer
lean p. f.. churches -. members I $50;
London Missionary society 81. mem bers
e.16o: Baptist Missionary union,
churches Is, members 1,3le.-Country
Church
The most serious menace 10 church
going in England is said 10 be cycling
A few churches have tried 20 induce
whselmen to come in for morning serv-
ice, but the bicycles Of few who hare
done so have been stolen bv local
church members. and the wheelman
now say that they Will not 20 70 church
unless the church insures their ma
chimes Many Of the clergy have be-
come enthusiastic sheelmen- aud II is
said that one country parSoD who we
recently called on 70 ofBciate a. a fu
neral wanted to ride to the cemetery Oh
q wheel, wearing a surpIice-