The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-08-31
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Right Across the Way.
You get tine view from this tiat.
Durrowes, said Hicks. visiting bu:-
rowes IL his top-1oor suite
IVES: is pretty iiac"
BY n" way, were you Rtle To s."
ro;c ere i. nvt>cr Niawson got IN.
..asea WIZ" nc tlied?"-Jul.cs.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL
When we ,vcar tho yoke Of Christ,
the heavier the load the easier It IS &c
travel. l:;lm's Horn.
Tic late p. r. Barnum, of Bridge
PorJ, 'n,nn., gave the First baptist SO
cicty The sum of 500 for their church
edifce. in order sha: they might get
more eligible sits. and the old structure
will be torn down and business block
put up in its place
God Wills, aud things are: that IS
divine omnipotcncc. Things arc, and
man wills them: that Is human wisdom.
Things gre, inan wills them and that,
too, a. God wills when He y IL and be-
'lme Elizabeth Of I'"sncc.
Mrs Priscilla Scrogg;ns. who -
living near Gainesville. Ga. has been Il
consistent mcmlcr OF the Methodist
church for more than hundred years.
She VAS born in Pickcns county, near
Andersonvillc, s. c.. March s, 1870, End
joined the church wian only nine years
Of age She Is enc hundred and twelve
years old. ard for ,norc than twenty
years has been . ipc,n!,.:r % Mt Zion
church in Georgia Christian III Work.
O-Ac,' r6ing 10 r..v:r:td Enrnmar'es
OF tic Cull:rrpcai.nc,,i Statistics there
ore T. G23 churches y Mt gain q, l3l
during the wear, 40l9 minister's, O. de-
crease OF II: AID 5U6,TS2 members. an
increase Of about 5000. Of baptisms
there IRE IL, 544 OF adults. and 8, $50 of
infants. the latter showing III increase
of over 1000, and the former decrease
Of about | eco The total of benevolent
contributions is 90, 2B7, 3S6, Indicating
O decrease Of &l20 Oil.
-fro,a innuirics which have been
made q. Paris. It appear. That last year
there were l,01l foreign students there,
and this Is represented rs Il lair aver
are 1Gc Gcrraans amounted to only ~,
while the Austrian: nrlni cred one less.
r here were 154 i:-ilish students aud
eos Russians and Poles. The Balkan
Peninsula sent the large contingent Of
315-Grcchs. Tur'ys, Roumaniaus, Ser
VANS and Bnlgarians being included III
this category The schools OF medicine
ond law appropriated ny far the great
or number, for while 729 attended he
former, lS2 attended the latter. The
Iaculty Of theology only had one for
eign studcnt. -Pittsourgh Disratc'.
According to the will of the late
Nancy S. Howe, of Winchester. which
has been fled with the clerk OF the
N,it,,llcacx Probate court at last Cam
bridge. the following requests have
been made: American Home Mission.
cry Society. $4,000; American ConGrc-
gational Society. ~ onG; Orthodox Goa.
grerutonal Church OF Winchester.
Woncus Board Of Missions. md W0-
men $ Home Missionary Association.
g. 600 each: proposed public library. to
be known as Sy1nes Memorial Library,
81. 000 Her rea! estate is willed to thr
town Of Winchester for the erection o:
the proposed town house ana pun!ic
linrnry. The residue after dr,iuc,in7
numerous requests TO relatives IS
wlled in equal parts to the American
BOARD OF Foreign Missions. American
Bible Society, and Congregational
Union.-Boston Transcript.
One hundred years ago girls were
notallowed to attend uny Of the public
schools Of She country. When the first
high school for girls was opened IN
Boston, in 1925. there was such an ont
cry against the innovation. and SO many
girls applied for admission, that after 4
year or q the scheme was abandoned,
aud was not attempted unit! 1873.
women vas onercd hr Moraviaus
in Pennsylvania IL lTs3 tie FIST semi
rarv for women in Now England was
ipaueurated in New Bedford. Massa-
chusctts, and Mary Lyon. in 1888,
founded q college Tor women in that
state on the broadcast basis ever before
attempted. Oherlin college was opened
on the co-educational p!an~in 1888, and
Antioch college in 1852 But these were
innovations which met with much dis
cussion md opposition, even among
women thcmselves.-Young Mems Era