San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SUNDAY, APRIL 9TH 1895.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Two scholarships at Oxford, the
Ireland and the first Craven, were won
lately by Mr.. Robertson, who is we'll
known athlete and one of the univer-
sity crew.
AT the death of John Wesley there
were 3l2 preachers, 1871 circuits and
missions and 10000 adherents to Meth
odism. Now there are AZ, f95 minis
tiers, 6,494, 800 members and @5,37s, 1O4
adherents.
Pope Leo XIII. takes occasion to
express his admiration for Dante and
his approval of and interest in Dante
studies, in a letter of thanks to Mgr.
&. POlettO, who recently published
commentary on the Divina Commedia.
The Buddhist Magazine of Japan
says: The greatest movement of the
twentieth century will not be com
mercial one, not military one, but the
nations of the west will invade the
east with great armies of Christian
missionaries, backed by the wealth of
Christendom.
The Bible Institute Colportage as
ISOLATION of Chicago is strong factor
in helping to stem the flood of vicious
literature, by supplying clean and
healthy reading. The books they fur
Christians OF all denominations and
can be obtained at great reduction.
Sir Henry Acland, who has just re-
signed the Regius professorship of med
icine at Oxford, forty years ago attend
ed President ROuth, who lived to be a
hundred, in his last illness. Routh had
been in company with DIR. Johnson at
Oxford, and had been a frequent asso-
ciate of DR.. Lancelot Andrewes, the in
innate friend of Addison.
Columbia college has friends who
do not forget its interests. At the re-
cent meeting of its board of trustees an
nouncement was made of gifts amount
ing to over a million dollars. OF these
gifts, 100000 is for the purpose of
erecting two new buildings on the new
site at Bloomingdale. The names of
the donors are withheld until it is de-
cided what the buildings shall be.
Word comes to this country from
Switzerland that Pastor II. p. Holser,
the American representative of the
Seventh Day Adventists in central Eu-
rope and the director of their publish
ing house in Basic, is now undergoing
a term of sixty-one DAYS imprisOn-
ment in that city for allowing work to
be done in the Office on Sunday.
The Baptists in Russia still continue
to suffer deep persecution, to which
has now been added the confiscation of
all religious literature. In spite of the
great difficulties under which they
labor there the work goes on, and they
now report membership of more than
1900, with 90 ministers, and the bap-
tisms last year were more than 1000
The American Assoc iation of Ed
ucators of Colored Youth propose to
hold their next annual meeting in Lon
don, and have accordingly planned for
an excursion to Europe to cover As
days next summer, at an expense of
$500 each, hoping to visit London,
Glasgow, Antwerp, Paris and Rome,
and with the purpose also of acquaint-
ing the European public with the ed
vocational, moral and material progress
made by the American negroes since
the emancipation. The members of
the association are all colored men and
women.
The school of mines of the univer-
sity of Missouri, situated at Rolla, Mo-,
has just opened its new mining and
metallurgical laboratory, which will
mark the beginning of a new career of
usefulness for the institution. A hand
some building, costing $4,000, has
been erected, containing well-appoint-
ed laboratories, lecture rooms and
drawing room, with large mill room
in the rear equipped with the latest
modern appliances for crushing and
concentrating ores, as well as with
cupola and reverberatory furnaces
and other plants necessary for metal
lurgical operations