The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Yale campus is to have .
memorial gateway erected by the heirs
of the late William Walter Phelps.
|, Mrs. Mary Reynolds Schauf1er, the
first single lady missionary to the for
eign field, died recently near Rochelle,
n. Y, aged ninety-three.
DIR. Silverman, a New York rabbi,
among his congregation by preaching
a sermon on the lessons OF Trilby. =
BY the will of Cornelia NJ. jackson,
Providence, R. l., Tufts college will
get SO, 900 for the erection of q college
for women, to be known as the "Corne-
liza Maria jackson College for Women"
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety has published a translation of
the gospel of st. Matthew in the Kisu-
kuma language. which is spoken in the
neighborhood of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
The society now publishes the scrip
lures in over 800 languages.
The pastors college in connection
with Surgeons church has sent out
pei persons into the ministry-twenty-
! II GliC ldSI NCdA" VI IiAAo
100 have died, leaving 737 still actively
working, $50 of whom are Baptist min
listers. missionaries or evangelists.
Rev. Samuel q. Jones, the father of
Sam Jones, who died in Georgia not
long ago,w was ninety years old. AL
though having five IONS in the minis
try. he himself did not join the Meth
odist church till the age of sixty, and
late in life became ordained to preach.
Mr.. Jones leaves one hundred and
thirty descendants.
London university, after limiting
itself for nearly sixty years to confer
ring degrees upon examination, now
proposes to take up instruction. The
university convocation has adopted the
report of the Gresham commission to
that effect, and Lord Rosebery has ex-
pressed himself in favor of the scheme.
One of the leaders in the movement is
Prof. Huxley.
Prof. Ritter, Of Germany, an emf
nent European scholar, say that the
Americans have outdOne Europeans in
| the field of chronological education, at
least as regards its practical bearings.
The technical branches he believes to
be less complete in the United States,
but he sets.opposite this in~feriority the
truly grand achievements in engi-
n%eering and machine construction"
For two years the plan of making
the church absolutely free to all wor-
shippers has been tried at st. Georges
Roman Catholic cathedral, South
warlS, London. The bishop reports
that the first year the voluntary con
tributions fell only $500 below the
former receipts, while the number of
worshippers increasted by 3O4. Last
year there was a further increase of
155 each Sunday, with a reduction of
the deficiency to $500.
"A curious breach of the Sunday law
came up recently in a London court.
The International Tract society, the
agent of a Sabbatarian Christian sect
which breaches the observance of
Saturday instead of Sunday, was COM
planned of for violating the factories
act by employing labor on Sunday. Al
though the law makes provision for
Jews working on Sunday. it does not
for Christians, and though it was
shown Thai no work was done by the
society on Saturday, and that Friday
was kept as a half holiday, a fine was
imposed.
DR.. Percival, head master of Rug
by, has just been made bishop of Here
ford. In the half century since DR..
Arnold's death there have been six
head masters of Rugby. Of these TAFT
was made bishop of London, and later
archbishop of Canterbury; Temple,
bishop first of Exeter and now of Lon
don; Percival, bishop of Hereford;
Coulburn, Hayman and Jex-Blake were
made deans. DR.. Percival is an Oxford
man; his appointment makes the num-
Der of bishops from Oxford twenty, to
ten from Cambridge, though both arch
bishops are Cambridge graduates. He
is a liberal, and in favor of disestablish-
ment in Wales; he attacked horse-rac-
ing, however, and Lord Rosebery, when
LadaS Won the Derby.