The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-05-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Presbyterian board of home
missions has formed a young peoples
department.
Roman Catholics are to erect an
$50, 900 seminary in Baltimore to train
priests for work among colored people
Mr. VIM. Buxton. of Indianola,
Ia, gives $40, 900 to Simpson college, in
that city. on condition that $4,000 are
raised from other sources.
President Adams of the university
of Wisconsin has issued report stat
ing the university is badly in need of
e125, 900 for immediate use.
The Presbyterian church in Japan,
which Is now one body, has in it at
present six presby teries. seventy-three
churches, and a membership of 10, 90S.
The Church Missionary society in
tends to continue the Soudan and Up
per Niger mission, notwithstanding
the death of Messrs. Brooke and Robin
son.
Mrs. Moses Hopkins, of San Fran
cisco, has decided to bestow $50, 600 and
nineteen acres of land to the academy
in that city which bears the Hopkins
name. There is a theological seminary
connected with the institution. The
management of the two will be reor-
ganized.
The aggregate attendance at the
Fulton street daily noon prayer-meet-
ings in New York city, for 1892, was
10, 226, an average of little over 40
The founder, Mr.. J. G. Lanphear. and
few of the original friends of the
movement, are still in daily attend
ance. The number of requests for
prayer received by letter was s, 755.
1T has been the custom of the Della
ware legislature for many years to APP
propriate a small sum for annual dis
tribution among the Sunday schools of
the state. of course without any Indi-
viduous distinction as to sect. The Dell
aware Baptist union, however, is urg-
ing the legislature to repeal the law
permitting such appropriation upon the
ground that it is unconstitutional to
appropriate money for religious pur-
poses.
The Hampton institute IS making
an appeal for assistance, feeling that
its record warrants it in so doing. The
total expense of the institution is $780,
600. while its regular income is but $40,
600. The small sum of $50 will give a
male student one years training as
mechanic or farmer, or female stu
dent training in domestic service or
dressmaking. The average cost of each
boarding student is $157. The institu
ton has now nearly seven hundred me-
gro and Indian pupils.
-Signora Ribighini was the founder
of the Scuola professionals at Rome.
which is recognized by Queen Mar
gherita and the municipal government
as one of the most useful institutions
of the city. Here girls are taught hand
machine sewing, mending dress-mal-
ing embroidery, artificial flower maxi
ing, cooking, washing and ironing.
Such studies as geometry, drawing and
painting bookkeeping and modern
languages are also taught There are
at present eight hundred pupils in the
school, and a large staff of teachers
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist
says that Calvins theology
found it's way into Germany, where it
produced the reformed church; was
taught In the university of Heidelberg;
extended to Holland; formed the basis
of the prevailing confession there;
crossed the channel into England;
exerted a marked influence on the new
Anglican church; assembled into Scot
land; became the theological founda-
ton Of the Scotch national church,
came over to this country with the pi',
grims in the Maydower in l6e0. aad has
had no small share in molding the faith
Of the people in the colonies and states
and the territe~ies which have grown
from them.