The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-03-23
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 312 preachers, 131 circuits and
missions and 10000 adherents to Meth
4 odlsm. Now there are ~, f95 minis
! ters, 6,494, ,399 members and %, ,37s, l04
! adherentS.
Pope Leo XIII. takes occasion to
! express his admiration for Dante and
his approval of and interest in Dante
/ studies, in letter of thanks to Mgr.
/ e. PolettO, who recently published a
/ commentary oD the Divina Commedia.
/ The Buddhist Magazine of Japan
! ssys: The greatest movement of the
/ twentieth century Will not be a 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
sociation of Chicago is strong factor
in helping to stem the food of vicious
! literature, by supplying clean and
healthy reading. The books they fur
nish meet the approval of evangelical
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 DR.. Johnson at
Oxford, and had been a frequent asso-
ciatc 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 million dollars. OF these
gifts. 5000 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. z. Holscr.
the American representative of the
Seventh Day Adventists in central Eu-
rope and the director of their publish
ing house in Basle. 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
10 suffer deep persecution, to which
has now been added the cOnfiscation of
all religious literature. In spite of the
great difficulties under which they
la Dor there the work goes on, and they
now report membership of more than
l., 200, with 80 ministers, and the bap-
tisms last year were more than 1,200.
The American Assoc iation of Ed
ucators of Colored Youth propose to
hold their next annual meeting in Lon /
don, and have accordingly planned fox |
an excursion to Europe to cover ~
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 pu tic with the ed /
vocational, moral and nterial progress
made bv the American negroes since /
the emancipation. The members Of /
the association are all colored men and
women.
The school Of mines of the univer- I
sity of Missouri, situated at Rolla, Mo-, /
has just opened its new mining and .
metallurgical laboratory, which Will /
mark the beginning of new career of /
usefulness for the institution. A hand !
some building, costing 5000 has
been erected. containing well-appoint- /
ed laboratories, lecture rooms and .
drawing room. with large mill room .
in the rear ec-E>ped 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.