The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
" SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

sss~--In England, Scotland and Wales
last year. SO, 500, 600 vas spent on tech
.safca] education, nearly a million more
Shan the year before.
During the past year the American
SundaySchool union has established
,Te5 new SundaySchools and reports
the conversion of about 900 persons.
aTs-M issKate Field has received an ur.
: Usual honor from the French govern.
rnent, which was conferred upon her
the Academic palm, and named her
aofflcer de INSTRUCTION Publique."
-TheAyoman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal
church has issued over 100000 pages
of missionary literature during the last
year It has G,l9s organizations, with
l53, sos members
Chinese Christians are conducting
All agitation against the cruel custom
of foot binding. at a gathering in the
Central NJ. E. church, Shanghai, num-
sberinggsix hundred persons, commit
etee was appointed for an active cru
sade. @f
Z DR.. Franz Newmann, who gives
lectures on physics and mineralogJ in
the university of Konigsburg, is ninety
six years old, and has lectured at this
university since he was thirty. He was
born near Berlin, and was a soldier in
the German war of liberation.
"A statue has just been erected at
Dessau to the memory Of Wilhelm
Muller on the one hundredth ami
versary of his birth. Wilhelm Muller
was the father of Max Muller, the
celebrated Oxford professor, and was,
like his son, one of the most accom-
plished philologists Of his time.
Rev. Eric Farrar, son of the arch
deacon, was candidate for election to
the school board of Coventry, England,
where he has lived but year, and
polled 500 more votes than the next
highest candidate and 1000 more than
the chairman of the board. Mr.. Far
rar is as popular Clergyman as has
been sent to Coventry for many year.
The American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions has re-
ceived seventeen thousand five hun
dred dollars through the state depart
ment at Washington from Spain as
indemnity for the loss of property and
other injury inflicted upon it's work at
Pouape, one of the Caroline islands, by
the Spanish authorities few years
ago.
Tho Ironton (Mo) Register kicks
because the Methodist church at that
place doesn't pay its preachers. Itsays
! that the present pastor has received
$3.50 for eight months work. That
the preacher before him was homeless
for some time because he had no money
to pay freight charges on his house
hold goods, and that his family lived
several days on corn bread and lettuce.
-Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of the City
Temple, London, recently bcrated the
newspapers for printing his sermons,
! on the ground that he is there by un-
able to use them again or sell them.
His anger has provoked considerable
sarcastic comment. One man writes to
a paper saying that he has been IN the
habit of reading DR.. Parkers sermons
to an invalid friend, but he now sees
that he was wrong. He ought to have
semitic reverend doctor at least three
shillings first.
"A story is told of a country clergy
man whose finances do not apparently
extend to banking operations and ex-
perence. Going toa bank with check,
the clerk handed it back with a request
that he would indorse it and it should
then. DC cashed. After much dclibera-
ton the reverend gentleman came to
the conclusion that he could, without
violation of his conscience accede to
the request. SO he took the treasured
piece of paper and wrote across the
back of it: II heartily indorse this
check.