Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-07-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

eCHOOI AMI S7OHOHs
1t is reported that Cleveland Ro.
man Catholics are considering serious
ly the adoption of Salvation army
methods.
Mr.. Gladstone, who was at Eton
with the late bishop Selwyn, has
given a bell to Selwyn college, Cam
bridge, which was named after the
bishop.
I'm some of the schools of Germany
the pupils acquire knowledge of the
weeds which injure vegetables. The
weeds are pictured on wall maps, in
natural colors
-Fifty-four ministers, eighteen
from each of three Presbyterian bodies
in Scotland, have for some time been
engaged in drawing up a scheme for
Presbyterian union in Scotland.
"A new religious sect has been
started in Missouri. The members
elect an angel" whose business it is
to fly to Heaven every little while and
find out waat God wants the members
to do.
The College Settlements associa~
tion has recently issued from the Phil.
adelphia Settlement the first number
of The College Settlement News, which
will appear monthly, and will give an
account of all events of interest in
the different settlements of the asso.
citation.
"A check for SO 900 was recently re.
ceived by L. ID. Eldridge, treasurer of
Middlebury, (Vt.) college, for the es-
Enlistment of an Emma Willard
scholarship. The money is given by
the Emma Willard association of New
York city, an organization composed
of alumn9 of Troy Female seminary,
of which Mrs. Russell Sage is presi-
dent. E..
Rev. F. B. Meyer, of London, tells
of one whose income is $4,000 per an
mum, who lives on $1,000 and gives the
remaining $4,000 to the cause OF foreign
missions. Another, whose thcome is
$10,000 who lives on 1900 and gives
away the remainder. A govUrness who
earns $500 gives $3.50. Another, who
has a comfortable competence, remains
in business, all the profits of which he
gives.
AT recent meeting in support Of
the Church Army, church of England
organization somewhat similar to the
Salvation Army, the archbishop of
Canterbury said that the church had
to great extent lost touch with the
working classes. He attributed this in
part to the fact that the phraseology
used by the educated classes is differ
ent from that of the poorer classes,
and urged that number of working
men, or men belonging to the so-called
working classes" be chosen to speak
to the masses in their own language.
. At St. Clement Danes, the law
yers' church, near Temple Bar, in Lon
don, the old custom of beating the
bounds was observed on Ascension
day. The parish officials, armed with
blue and yellow wands, headed by the
beadle and followed by number of
schoolboys carrying bamboo. canes,
marched to Temple Bar and the other
marks of the boundary of the parish.
These the boys whacked with their
canes, which is an innovation, for in
olden times it was the boys who re-
ceived the whacl1ing in order to i'm
press on their memories where were
the parish limits.
AT the gathering of the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary society at
Saratoga Rev: James Tompkins, of
Chicago, declared that 800, 900 of the
population of Illinois are practically
without a religion, many of them be-
ing literally heather. He said that
the large and complex population of
Chicago offered great call for mis-
sionary effort and presented a difficult
problem for solution. Notwithstand-
ing the growth of the religious denom-
nations and the vast number of church
edifices there is large body of citi-
zens who never have morality preached
to them, much less the principles of
religion. '''' .''" d.