The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10

SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The church of England is TO have
a college at Jerusalem. Bishop Blyth
has received the frman from Constan-
tinople sanctioning the erection of the
proposed college.
The Congregational Home Missions
ary society reports receipts for i've
months of sl75, 5,406, an advance of near
ly $50, 900 on the receipts for the corre-
spending period of last year
1t is proposed to use st. Saviour's
church, in Southwark, which. is second
only to Westminster abbey as n speci-
men of pure early English architecture.
as the procathedral for south London.
The Swedish parliament has shown
its interest in religious influences for
Swedish sailors by an appropriation OF
10, 600 crowns for church. work among
those who are gathered in foreign har-
bors.
"A church in Vermont recently adj
vertised for minister, and besides
stipulating that he should be young,
married and interested in social and
church club work, insisted that he must
be a republican.
"A meeting was recently held in
Westphalia for the purpose of organ
izing Christian workmen, both Prot
estant and Catholic, into trades unions
in order to counterbalance the effect OF
the socialist unions.
"A medical school for women is to be
established by the Russian government
at st. Petersburg, through the efforts,
it is said, Of Prince WolkowslSi, who
represented the government in matters
of education at the Chicago exposition.
The fifteenth annual report of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society of
the Methodist Protestant church Is
highly creditable to that society. The
treasurer's report shows an income OF
S3, 1928. 20 and disbursements of So, ,54s.43
The First Baptist church of Port
land, Ore, has recently dedicated
house of worship which cost Sl75,000.
| It will seat 1000 persons. The Congrc-
gationalists are erecting in the same
city a church which will cost over $780,,
| 600.
| Prof. Todd of Amherst college,
who has for some years been an enthu-
siastic student of eclipses and of the
suns corona, is perfecting plans for his
expedition to Japan in 1896, where an
important eclipse of the sun will be
visible on August of that year.
The increase in the number Of med
ical missionaries in all lands is signifi-
can't In 1910 they numbered thirty
nine; in 1894 they are four hundred, OF
whom eighty are lady doctors. Dur
ing 1898 not fewer than one hundred
and sixty applied to the International
Medical Missionary institute, New
York, to be received to prepare for the
same service.-Ram's Horn.
The great organ which stood in
Festival hall, has been purchased and
presented to the University of Michi-
gan by friends and graduates Of the
institution. 1t is now being set up in
Univers ity hall, which has seating
capacity of about $500. The instru.
ment contains S.9O1 pipes, and while
ranking fourth in size among the large
organs of the United States, it stands
first in completeness and perfection OF
mechanism.
Life is not mean succession Of
idle triviality. Man is not n mere crea-
ture of appetite and passion. God has
lifted the world and man into the
sweep of his great thought The world
he is remaling glorious. You and me
he will recreate divine. 1t rests with
us to place ourselves in the line of re-
demption. Look up that you may be
lifted up. Your Saviour, your destiny,
your guiding star, are not beneath, but
above. Then let yours be the upward
look and the onward effort!- Berry.
"A school of sociology has been esr
tablished at Hartford, Conn.,. under the
auspices of the Society of Education
Extension. The curriculum covers three
years. Seventeen names of instructors
are already given and others are to
be announced. The school is to be
open to men and women. For regular
students college diploma or its equiva-
lent is required. Non-graduatss can
take the entire course, but will not be
admitted to matriculation. The terms
are matriculation fee. two dollars,
tuition for the full course of the year,
dfty dollars.