The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-11-24
IS scscoL AND CHURCH.

- SChCCL AND ChOhCn.
Schools at Oxford were established
oy Alfred the Great about SID.
National grants in aid of educa
were first made in the United States in
1905.
Schools Of commerce. business col
leges have existed in Europe for over
two hundred years
The church OF England has organ
lied society for the promotion Of
kindness to animals
There are sixty-five Baptist
churches on Long island, with total
membership of 1900, and property
valued at s., 900, OO0.
The American Unitarian Associa
tion and many benevolent institutions
in Boston have received considerable
amounts Of money from the estate Of
the late Annie NJ. Sweetser.
The use of the magic lantern has
become so general in England that a
Methodist Lantern union has been
formed for the loaning or Interchange
ofslides for missionary, scientific, evan
gelistie and other purposes -Zion'S
Herald.
The committee selected by the d.
rectors of the American Unitarian as
ISOLATION to prepare liturgy has fin
ished its task, and the result appears
in the volume just issued by the associ-
ation-"Book of Prayer and Praise for
Congregational Worship"
The cost ofa medical education, &C
cording to the Hospital, is, in London,
$500 to $500 per year, for five years, plus
$500 TO 81, 900 in fees, making total of
$500 TO $500 In this city 1t would
be 5000 year for three years, and $500
for fees as minimum estimate. IN. Y.
Medical Record
Snr. William II. Green. senior pro-
fessor in the Princeton Theological
seminary, has announced that students
in that institution must not play foot
ball hereafter, because 1.-THE rough and
brutal game does not comport with the
purpose for which students are there,
and must beabolished.
The number Of church members in
Congregational churches, as printed
January l, 1898, was $40, 725. The do
nations to the boards work for the
year ending August 81, 1898, were 1885,
1S77S, less than an average of two cents
week for each member. A nickel
N x,aaly from, aoah ,uo,,l1 ~ ,.oo.l,. =,
million and half year. A special
donation of sixteen cents from each
member would meet the deficit with
which the current fiscal year opened
N. Y. Observer.
1t will be remembered that M. de
Rougemont was In this country last
summer with a view TO the establish
ment in Paris of secular journal
which should be in the interest Of good
morals and Professionalism This has
been accomplished. lie Signal is under
the editorship Of NJ. Eugene Reveil-
laud, and it appears to be new de-
parture in French journalism. We
observe that the international congress
at Lausanne passed resolution cor
daily indorsing it
Prof. Thayer, of Harvard, expresses
the opinion, touching the discovery of
the Gospel according to Peter, that
brief as is the recovered fragment, 1t
attests Individually all four Of our
canonical books" Furthermore, when
Prof. Hall and DR.. Harris published
articles to show that Psalm OK. was
written by David, shey assumed the
Office Of higher critics according to
their lights. 1t is the abuse, not the
use, of this or any other method of
Bible study that is to be condemned.
Christian at Work.
During the hast six months, to Sep
TENDER /, 1898, It's colporteurs OF the
American Tract society labored in
thirty-three states and Canada. Their
combined time equaled 500 months of
labor; they visited 1861 families, in
81, 1874 Of which they engaged the per-
sons in religious conversation or PRAYER;
circulated by sale and grant 53, 900 vol
nmes of Christian literature; addressed
2, ss5 meetings.; found e,035 families
destitute of all religious books except
the Bible, and 5,l9h families without
the Bible. They visited Il, SOC Roman
Catholic families, and found 10, 40 Prot
estant families who rarely ever attend
evangelical preaching. Chicago Stand
ard.