The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The annual report shows that there
are nearly 10000 pupils in Cumber-
land Presbyterian Sunday-schools, an
increase of 20, 740 over last year.
Rev. Albert T. Swing has been ap-
pointed professor of church history in
Oberlin theological seminary. Mr..
Swing is an alumnus of Oberlin college
and Yale seminary, was for several
years successful pastor, and for the
past three years has been devoting
himself to the study OF church history
in the German universities
President Eliot of Harvard expresses
the opinion that there is a great dimi-
mutton in drinking in all colleges. and
that great progress is being made in
that direction, especially in the col
leges of England. The effect on col
leges here and abroad, he thinks, has
been brought about, to large degree,
by the decrease in drinking in society.
Pacific college. Newberg, Ore, the
youngest Friends college, and the only
one on the Pacific coast, was organized
two years ago, and graduated its first
class on June 81. Although the class
only numbered two, yet it was great
day in the history of the college. The
faculty consist of corps OF enthusias-
tic young men and young women. Be-
sides the usual literary courses there
are well-equipped departments of art
and music and the outlook for the col
lege is bright.
After postponing the matter year
after year for a considera bic period the
French academy has just given its con-
sent to scheme for reform of French
spelling. The new rules, with com
mentaries, will shortly appear in
small book issued by the academy.
Among the alterations to be submitted
for public approval are the suppression
of the hyphen in compound words and
the reduction to symmetry Of regular
plurals by making the addition of "a"
the uniform sign of the plural number
AT the American cha pei at Lucerne,
Protestant Episcopal minister from
this country Cow church, read the les
sons with such naturalness of manner
and propriety of emphasis as to elicit
the admiration of a visitor, who after
ward remarked: "How delightful to
hear the Scriptures read with such
sense and feeling" She was surprised
to hear the sister of {high church,
rector, American also, eXclaim: 81 can't
agree with you. / think it almost
blasphemous for man by such stress
and emphasis to impose his own inter-
probation on the Word of God. The
Scriptures should be read in monotone"
Though Corea is yet, in the main,
unreached and unaffected by the Cos
pei, yet an entrance has been affected
by our missionaries, and this right at
Seoul, the capital, the Jerusalem, as it
were. of the nation. That Corea was
not long ago absorbed by one or the
other of the great empires between
which she lies argues an inherent vigor
and individuality of race that quite en-
hances her Importance in the general
estimate. That population of S,OGO,-
900 to 100000 in a country but four
hundred miles long by one hundred
and fifty miles broad. shaped much like
Italy, should maintain their distinctive
position and characteristics with such
tenacity as to have become popularity
known as '"The Hermit Nation" i'm
parted special interest to efforts to
reach them with the Gospel-N. Y.
EvanCelist