The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Ready-made sermons may be bought
at two places in London.
Michigan Legislators have defeated
bill proposing to tax church property.
Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer has given $780,
900 to Columbia college, New York city.
-Baptists possess sS2, 200, 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 1866. 900 of the
unevangelized.
Mrs. Magnusson, the vice-president
for Iceland of the Worlds w. C. T. o.,
has founded girls school in Iceland
1t is the only one among 10000 inhab-
itants.
Negotiations are in progress for
the esta blishment 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 $4,000 for reli-
gious, educational and missionary pur-
poses-an average of $40 per member
Central Congregationalist
Bronze doors cast In one piece and
decorated with panels carved in relief
are Mr.. William Waldorf Astor's gift
to Trinity ehuIch in memory of his
father, the late John Jacob Astor.p
The first Christian church built in
England is said to have been erected at
Glastonby, Somerset, about the first
century. 1t was sixty feet long, and
thirty-six broad, and made of rods,
waited or interviewer.
The bishopric of Natal, South At
RIGA, which has been practically ex-
tinct since the death of Bishop Colenso
in 1858, has been revived by the APP
pointment to that see of Rev Arthur
Hamilton Bayne, of Greenwich, En-
gland.
Andrew D. White, of Cornell uni
versity, writes: LET me say that
never knew young student to smoke
cigarettes who did not disappoint ex-
pectation l 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 documents in Latin,
and begins with humble confession
of human weakness and appeals to the
merits of our Lord and all 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, DID,, 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 90, members,
10, 700; Presbyterians, churches IA;
members 11,190: American NJ. E.,
churches IS, members STA; Canada M.
E., churches %, members I ,760; Amer.
lean p E., churches 81, members 400;
London Missionary society sc, members
2,160; Baptist Missionary union,
churches IS, members 1,S12.-Country
Church.
The most serious menace to church
going in England is said to be cycling.
A few churches have tried to induce
wheelmen to come in for morning serv-
ice, but the bicycles of few who have
done so have been stolen by local
church members, and the wheelman
now say that they will not go to church
unless the church insures their ma
chimes Many of the clergy have be
come enthusiastic wheelmen, and it is
said that one country parson who was
recently called on to ofiiciate at a flu
neral wanted to ride to the cemetery on
a wheel, wearing surplice.