The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

AT a recent meeting of the trustees
of Columbia college new chair was es.
tablished in the department of zoology.
and Prof. E. B. Wilson, formerly OF
Bryn Mawr college, was chosen to &C,
cupy it
AT the beginning Of this century
there were only $50 missionaries. Now
there are 25, 900 missionaries and native
helpers and evangelists At the begin
ming of this century there were only
$4,000 heather converts. Now there
are 1,750,000 converts from heathen-
dom.
Rev. DR.. Newton Sprague and Hon.
Marriott Clarke, who were associates
in Middlebury college, from which they
graduated over seventy years ago, are
near neighbors in the same Vermont
village, and both remarkably vigorous
for their years-the one SO and the 9TH
er 90.
Spain is the most i1literate of the
Latin-speaking races, the percentage
of those unable to read being 65. In
Hungary the illiterates number IS per
cent; in Austria, 80 per cent. and in
Ireland, 81 per cent. In India only H.
900, 900 out of $50, 900, 900 can read and
write.
The Jewish law ordered that tho
grain fields should not be CLEANED. and
that the wheat in the corners of the
fences Or walls should not be gathered,
in order that something might be left
for the poor. No farmer might forbid
poor persons from entering his fields
and cleaning after the reapers.
The Baptists of England will add
100 to their army Of missionaries now
at work among the heather. This is
made possible by the $4,000 fund
gathered during the centennial year"
A deputation of leading men is now
visiting the Baptist churches of En-.
gland to sound q call through them
for the men and women for mission
aries.
Christian Endeavor societies in the
Reformed church in America raised for
missions, from February to October,
1898. So, O1S. 90. There are SAG societies
in the denomination, but the fifty-sev-
en- societies in the denomination Chris
tan Endeavor Missionary League con-
tributed almost one-half this sum, or
81, 322. "a.
At the opening of the century there
were only a. translations of the entire
Bible in existence; to-day there are 90
entire TRANSACTIONS, $50 partial ones,
and $50 in all; 500, 900, 600 of the human
race now have the opportunity OF
studying the Bible in regions which
knew almost nothing of it before the
recent century began
-Oftentimes the hindrances that lie
In the path of duty may be compared
to the toll gates upon our turnpike
roads; they are kept shut till we are
Just upon them, and then fly open, as
it were, of themselves And that is
time enough. II they had been open a
week beforehand We could but have
gone through at last-John Newton
There is family in Oregon which
has q peculiar religious faith Each
member Of 1t is obliged to take six
baths every twenty-four hours No
is allowed to enter their dwell
ing. They work every day for six
years and rest the whole OF the seventh
year They base their religion on the
Bible, and claim that all other religions
are false
Julius Nelson has been jealous
local preacher in the NJ. L Church OF
New York for nineteen years at an an
nual salary OF $500, and at the end OF
that period he finds himself 800 IN
debt Year after year ne has asked the
to advance him TO eleerShin
His case came I'D before the conference
in Brooklyn recently. and II moved him
to tears when he was at last ordained /
an e,ie-