Griggs courier., 1893-09-22
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.

OSOO eNOS VI S0OO0oss
GooD pay inspires poet.
POVERTY is hereditary.
HEALTH is Hopes best tonic.
A MILLION dollars means q million
cares.
FRAGRANCE is the invisible beauty of
flowers.
THE finer the church the greater the
congregations vanity.
If ambition tapers off at the top it
would be less dangerous.
WHAT man thinks depends largely
on what he eats and drinks.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The house where there is no Divine
worship is filed with the sighs of God
Rams Horn.
The gifts Of the preacher are as
gold that adorns the temple; his grace
like the temple that sanctifies the gold.
-Burkett
lin the last twenty-five years. SO
says Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, s11,-
100000 has been given in this country
to women's colleges alone.
1T is ridiculous to expect God to
hear us when we do not hear ourselves;
which is the case when our lips move,
with the mind inattentive and wander
ing.-Seed.
The words and phrases under the
letter "A," in Worcester's dictionary
arc 6,933; in Webster's, s,35s; in the
Century, 1851, and in the Standard,
now in course of publication, 1885.
Rev. A. w. Clarke, of Washington.
d. c., has accepted call to the Abys-
sinian church at Portland, Me-, q Con-
gregational church for colored people,
which has been maintained for nearly
sixty years
MIR. w. H. Bishop, whose fascinating
little volume, House Hunting in Eu-
rope" has won such ready appreciation
from host of readers, has been ap-
pointed instructor in Spanish and
French at Yale, his alma mater.
Many Chinese temples are provided
with a bell at the entrance, and when
the worshiper enters he gives the rope q
pull and rings the bell in order that
the deity may be notified of his coming
and be on hand to attend to his busi-
ness.
Scripture is more terrible in its
mysterious reserve about the wrath
to come," than any picture man could
paint. There is more pathetic and aw-
full meaning in the one word, ''the
lost" than in any attempt Of ours to ex-
pand the thought-Dean Church.
The Review of Reviews bears this
testimony to the civilizing power of
missions: 1T is our brave contingent
of missionary teachers-and not the
present greedy squads of German and
Spanish traders and officials-who have
annexed the islands of the Pacific to
civilization. Many of them have been
completely transformed by the mission
aries, whose labors alone have given
them commercial Importance"
The following are the approximate
statistics of the Church Missionary So
ciety: Stations, S24; European mis-
sionaries-ordained, 1922; lay, II; wives,
249; unmarried women, 121; total,
763; native and Eurasian clergy,
2s1; native lay teachers, 1896; native
Christian adherents, 196,6Ss; native
communicates, 51,o4e; .baptisms during
the year, 10, 71o; schools, 1,79s; scholars,
q, $50; income in 1892, 81 1,414, ,025.-Mis-
sionary Review.
AT a recent meeting Of the board Of
trustees of Westminster college, Prof
Arthur ]. Hopkins, Ph. D., recent
graduate of Johns Hopkins university,
was chosen to the chair of chemistry
and mathematics. Prot. ]. j. McElree,
for three years in Amity college, Iowa,
is to be professor of Latin. Miss Agnes
Reed, q graduate of Westminster in the
scientific course will assist Prof. Hop
kins Prot. Charles A. Douglas, of
Preston, Wis, will be musical director
next year. Miss Idelie r. Merritt, of
Oil City, having studied in the schools
of Boston and New York will teach
voice culture.
SYa &. 4,