The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-06-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


DIR. Cross, OF tho Free Church OF
Scotland Missions on Lake Nyassa,
Africa, has upon the ron cf his schoo'
the names Of 800 children rescued from
slavery.
The English Bap;;st Congo Mission
last year had twenty-eiGht 12issionarics'
and for outfits, tronsits, bniidinga,
taxes, boat expenses ard saiar.ea the
expenditure was S73 ooN
--Bishop Doano, oi Aln2sg, who has
been travelling in Engiart'- has been
given the degrees Of III y. and ID, by
the universities Of Cambridge md Ok
ford. -Ilarpers Weekly.
There Is some talk % providing Ox-
ford with o complete medical faculty,
30 that atuden.a will slad satisfactory
theoretical education without going TO
London Tne7e Is. howevc-, marked
opposition by nony influential pars0ns
70 that project -Rcvue stfcnfihque
M. Pobicdonostze@, CHEZ OF the
Holy Synod Of Russia, los issued rcsu.
lations which provide that students OF
oil religious denominations must attend
lessons in tho Orthodox Catechjarn- ana
that Ill industrial establishments must
have an Orthodox church within q dis
tancc OF twenty lilonctres
The Prcsbytcrians q the north, IN
the United States, raised last year, Tor
foreign missions, s042, COCOA The
Presby,erlans OF the south raised Sll2'.
751.40 The Presbyterian churches OF
the country have, therefore, reached
over the million line" in tnc york OF
foreign missions. bTterian OBJ
server.
The wcl!-known Florence Night
mission, of New York city, has its
counterpart In San Jose, Cal, est2o-
lishcd by the same man who has done
SO much for the degraded here FOR
two years Mr. Crittcnton has been at
work In SIM Jose, and great success
has attended his efforts. Over four
hundred conversions have been MADE
in this mission and It's nightly meetings
IRE overlooking.
Tho New Yorl. Pres6ytcry reports
statistics for the year ending April l.
1891, rs follows: Elder, "a; deacons,
2OC; added on examination, l,401; on
certificate, l,O10; to.ul Of communi-
cants, os,C77; baptisms, adults. 2l9; IN
fants, 1898; Eabbath-school cmber-
ship, %, 143; contributors. home mis-
sions, $3.50, 152; foreign missions, s70,-
$50; education, $500; S&65ath-school
work. slo.0l2; church erection, s19,3
relief fund SLIPS freedmen $G,2l9
"A marrying craze has spread among
the school teachers OF Detroit. accord
Ing to the Sun, 200 OF thca-about half
the entire stah;-nrc TO he welded dur
ing the summer Tie Sun odds that
the authorities anticipate trouble in
filing all the vacancies, G.ld therefore
M effort will be m2dc 10 induce some
OF the retiring schoolna ;..:ls to remain
for q while after their marriage. II
Boston, when woman teacher mnr-
rics, no matter how competent She may
be. the school committee ,lispcnses wish
her services
Rev. Mark Guy Pcarcc, OF London,
tells of one Of his tlcaconesSos who went
to q mother Of child of tie aluns and
offered to tako her Tor q N.,.IN in the
park. The littlo one had never seen
tree even. When she saw Inc fountain
in the park she asked: rs tilis the sea-
mo; that is not the sea 20 tie sca
lnrCer than that?" res Gould |
walk round it?" "No" ~ hen itnuat
bo RS large as our sora-e." And as
she brought The l;ttlo o:e hack d man
who lived In the 10? SCR Of tho same
house said to her @! Ola Ca atheist By
right, you know, u,lt con rot holq say
ing to you. God bless yoa. >