Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-11-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The church Of England i 10 have
. college at Jerusalem Bishop Blyth
has received the firman from Constan-
tinople sanetioning the erection Of the
proposed college.
The Congregational Home Mission
AIRY society reports receipts for Eve
months Of SIS. 4es. an advance Of near
IL 5000 ON the receipts for the eorre-
spending period Of last year.
1t Is proposed to use 81 saviour's
church. in Southwark. which Is second
Z only to Westminster abbey rs a speci-
men 81 pure early English architecture,
a. the procathedral for south London
The Swedish parliament has shown
[ it, interest in religious influences for
Swedish sailo-s by an appropriation of
I IL. 600 crowns for church work among
those who are gathered in foreign har-
( bors-
A church in Vermont recently adj
vertiSed for n minister. and. besides
Z STIMULATING that he should he young.
married and interested in social and
church club work. insisted that he must
he republican
"A meeting was recently held in
I Westphalia for the purpose OF organ
I hing Christian wOrkmen. both Prot
estant and Catholic, into trades unions
in order to counterbalanee the effect of
I the socialist unions.
a medical school for women i to he
established hy the Russian government
at 81 Petersburg. through the efforts.
/ IL i said. of Prince woIkowsl<i. who
I represented the government in matters
% education at the Chicago exposition
The fifteenth annual report Of the
Womans Foreign Missionary society OF
the Methodist Protestant church il
highly creditahle to that society. The
Treasures report shows an income Of
I s5.62s % and disbursements of 81. as as
I The First Baptist church Of Port
land. Ore. has recently dedicated a
house Of worship which cost $4,000.
Il will seat !. 90 persons The Congre-
gationalists are erecting in the same
city church which will cost over $780,
600
I Prof Todd. of Amherst college,
who has for some years been an enihu-
siastic student of eclipses and Of the
suns corona is perfecting plans for his
expedition to japan in lssS, where an
important eclipse Of the sun viii he
visible on August of that year
The increase in the number of med
ical missionaries in all lands i signifi-
cant In I>49 they numbered thirty
+ nine; in 1894 they are four hundred. of
whom eighty arr lady doctors Dur
/ ing isgS not fewer than one hundred
and sixty applied to the International
Medical Missionary institute New
York, To h. received to prepare for the
same service Rams Horn
The great organ which stood in
Festival hall. has been purchased and
presented tn the University If Miehi-
gan by friends and graduates Of ths
institution IL i now being set up in
Z nivers ity hall. which has a seating
capacity of about $500 The~instru-
ment contains 1901 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 a mean succession Of
idle trivialitv. Man Is not mere erea-
tur'e IF appetite and passion. God has
lifted the world and man into the
sweep 81 h's great thought The world
he i remakinE glorious You and N.
he will recreate Irvine. IL rests with
u 10 yslace 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 b the upward
look aud the onward effort Berry.
A school 81 sociology has teen es-
+ tablished n Hartford. Conn. under the
auspices Of the Society of Education
Extension Thecurriculnm covers three
wears Seventeen names Of instructors
are already given and Others are to
be announced. The school i 10 be
open to men and women For regular
students college diploma or its equiva-
lent is required Non-graduats> can
take the entire course, but will not be
admitted to naturalization The terms
are a naturalization fee. two dollars.
tuition for the fall course of the year.
City dollars