The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-03-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The Very Rev. Thomas Casey, vicar
general of the Erie PA diocese, died
worth e25O,O 600. He had given nearly
as much 70 the church and TO charity
during his active life.
Mrs Amelia A. Frost, wife Of Rev.
George A. Frost, Of the Orthodox
church at Littleton, is the first woman
preacher of the Congregationalist
church IN Massachusetts,. She was or
dained a short time ago.
The American Baptist Homs Mis-.
sion society has not reported a debt for
seven years; but this year it has al
ready been compelled to borrow $780,
600. and will probably report a debt OF
at least $3.50, 900 at sthe close of the &C.
clesiastical year in April
Switzerland has within a few
months lost two of her most eminent
theologians, M. Auguste Bowler, who
for many years was at the head of the
moderate liberal party in the Geneva
university and church, and NJ. Augustin
Grettillat, who was at Neuchatel the
representative of orthodox evangelical
theology.
Rev. Ida c. Hultin, who has been
called TO the Unitarian church in Troy.
is the pastor Of a fourishing church in
Moline, Ill She has, says the New
York Tribune, preached and spoken
several times in New York and Brook
lyn during the last three years, and
has made a most favorable impression
on all who have heard her.
DR. Andrew V. V. Raymond, who
was elected to the presidency of Union
college recently. has sent his formal
acceptance to the board of trustees.
/ He will resign the pastorate of the
| Fourth Presbyterian church in Albany
in order to assume his new duties. His
Inauguration will take place on June
%, the day preceding commencement.
Rev. Algin Grout. one of the oldest
American missionaries, died in Spring.
! field, Mass, recently, at the age OF
about ninety and one-half years. Mr..
Grout graduated from Amhert college
in 1881 and from Andover seminary in
] 1884, and soon after being ordained as
a minister TO Cape Town, where he en-
gagged in missionary work among the
Zulus. To reach his post he went
through three hundred miles of abso.
lutely savage country. He remained
IN zululand until 1870 assisted by his
wife, who survives him. Mr. Grout
aided in translating the Bible into the
Zulu language.
Among the famous military schools
of Europe there is none more popular
for foreigners than the French school
at st. Cyr. During the last twenty
years more than one hundred foreign
cadets are said to have received instruc-
tiop there. among them being twelve
Americans At present the countries
represented are Turkey, Japan, Ru'
mania. Paraguay, Hayti, Burma, Mon.
tenegro, the Argentine Confederation,
Peru, Servia, Greece, Persia, Switzer
land, Belgium, Spain and England.
Indeed, every country may be said to
be represented there, with the solitary
but natural exception of Germany.
Mrs Elliott f. Shepard is planning
the erection of a church near her coun
Try home on the Hudson as a memorial
of her husband. It is to be beautiful
in architecture and will be the most
costly church ediice ever erected in
the United States. Mrs Shepard makes
it a point to carry out every enterprise
that her husband was engaged in in
such a way as he would done had he
lived There is no difference in the
gifts to different charities, no changes
have been made in the household OF
the newspaper or in any other thing in
which he was interested. The old en-
ployes and servants of the household
remain and in every way Mrs. Shep-
ards loyalty to the memory of her hus-
band is very touching.