The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-25

u To-
"A sanslkirt school for Hindoo girls
hsa been opened In CAlcuttA.
1T IL now just 100 years since Prot
estant missionary work was begun In
India.
"A new theological seminary has
been established by the synod Of Ken
tucly Of the Presbyterian church south
st Louisville, KY.
There are 4sB missionaries on the
stan Of the London city mission.
French, Germans, Spaniards and other
foreigners are employed 10 reach GER
tain classeA
PROF. william 8. Tyler, for Afty
years the loved and honored professor
Of Greek at Amherst college, Masss.
chusetts, often called 'the Amherst
Socrates" Il to retire from his position
and devote himself to the preparation
Of . book.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who argan-
ICED the hrst kindergarten In San
Francisco In 1880, has received more
than $500, 900 to enable her to carry ON
the work. There are now sixty-five
kindergartens In the city, and more
than 10000 children have been trained
| In them.
Many Stundists now In Punishment
| In Transcaucasia will petition the czar
to change their place Of exile to
Siberia, were agricultural land is
| plentiful and where they may have
some chance of making living. Nov
they are entirely dependent upon the
charity Of their friends
| Seventy young men have gone from
the Evangelists' home, Birmingham. to
preach in England and abroad. Their
work is on nonsectarian lines, and their
labors have been wonderfully success.
full. Mr.. Adell is about to build large
hall in the thiclkly populated part .oi
Birmingham, to gather in the neglected
masses.
! Fifty years ago there were twenty
four professors in the university OF
Cambridge, of whom five only were lay.
men. There are now forty professors,
of whom, excluding the professors Of
divinity, only three are in holy orders;
while Mt Oxford, of the fortv-eight pro.
fessors, excluding the professors oi
divinity, again only three are clergy.
men.-Nineteenth Century.
Rev. M. NJ. Vancleave, pastor of the
Baptist church at Charlottesville, Ind,
has the enviable ministerial record OF
having married seven hundred and six
ty couples. This venerable clergyman
has preached the Gospel for nearly
eighty years, and the good, old-fash
ioned ceremony with which he ties the
nuptial knot neatly and with dispatch
makes the ordeal q pleasure even to the
most bashful swain.
1t was decided by the Hcrmanns
burgh missionaries among the Zulus
after holding conference, to abolish
the prevailing custom among the ma
tives Of exchanging girls and womer
for cattle. Strange to say, the Chris
tian converts refuse to submit to thi,
innovation, and have demanded of tn,
missionaries that they prove to then
from the Scriptures that 1t would b,
unlawful for them to sell their daugh
ters for cattle.
-Nagasaka, the educated Jap VIII,
fell in love with the Salvation army q
Adelphi theater, San Francisco, is nov
on his way to London to lay the claim
of Japan before Gen. Booth. Since hi
conversion Nagasaka has been bus,
rranslarlng Inc army literature into nj
own language, and some two hundret
army songs, besides the generals holi
ness readings, pamphlets, explanator!
Of the Salvation army, are now to b'
found in the hieroglyphics Of Nagasa
ka'R yernacular