The Forrest City times., 1894-07-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There were 412,963 girls of school age in Missouri when the last census was taken.
 Missouri is said to have 33,435 persons of school age, of whom SIS, ,Sg4 are native born and 151 1Ol of foreign birth.
 Five thousand dollars has been willed to Harvard university by Mrs. Harriet Hayden to found scholarship for colored students.
 Commander Booth of the Salvation army was presented. while in Cincin- nati, with Russia bound copy of Strong's concordance as a souvenir of his visit to the Methodist preachers meeting in that city.
 Miss Dawson has been chosen by the Methodists of Hastings, England, as a delegate to the Wesleyan confer ence. It is thought she will not be al- lowed to take her seat, on the ground that she is a woman, St. Paul having said that women should be silent in the churches.
 Miss Agnes Irwin, of Philadelphia, is the newly-appointed dean of Rad cliffe college, and she will enter upon the duties of her position in the autumn. Miss Irwin has brilliant record as a teacher. and possesses those social and executive qualities which augur we'll for her success in her new position. She will spend the summer in rest and recreation abroad.
 There are about l,19l religious pa- pers in the United States. Ofthese the Baptists have 1sl Methodists, IFS; Ro- man Catholics. l34; Protestant Episco- palians, 76; Presbyterians. 73; evan gelical denominations, Fl: Lutherans. 59; Congregationalists, ss; undenomi- national, 2l6, while the balance is dis tributed among about dozen other denominations.
 The American Baptist Home Mis- sionary society reports as total receipts for the year S4O5,o13: from contiibu- tions and trust funds, $500, ,0O0; lega- cies, S46,559. The total expenditures for the year were s52i, ,156: for mission aries salaries, s229, i9s; for teachers, s93,934. The receipts for general mis- sionary and educational purposes have averaged for eleven years Saa0, ,399; the receipts for last year were nearly SJ0,- 900 above the average.
 According to the British and For eign Bible society, there is little chance for circulation of the Bible in Japan. The society says of Japan: '.The prog fore the absorption of the people in their new political passions. Some visitors to Japan say that the trouble is that the Japanese, eager to receive everything of western civilization, have welcomed the missionaries of all sects of Christianity, and now are greatly puzzled over the rival claims of different denominations.
 -Dr. L. W. Munhall has just closed series of revival meetings in Mobile, Ala, of very great interest and value. It is many years since there has been such a grand religious jubilee. The pastors and workers of the various Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches had been for weeks and months making prepara rations for the meetings; and when Dr. Munhall ar rived everything was ready. Day after day the great rink was crowded as it had never been filled before with peo- pie representing every sect. creed, de- nomination and condition of life. At the closing jubilee -ervice the hall was packed so that there was not even standing room. Nearly eight hundred converts gathered near the stage among them men far advanced in life, as we'll as children.