The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-02

The Congregationalists IN thn
.oontrv number 5sS.
"A -. Paul lumberman has given
s.n 600 10 the University Of Minnesota
,o.ndow chair Of Semitic langua yes.
Con Booth is mt work on new
,,i, drawn from the results Of his OBJ
locations during his recent visit to
This country.
rev. RusSell-H. Conwell. DID,, pas
,or N Grace baptist church Crhe Tenn
,r.a philadelphia has baptized 3.oai
ions during his eleven years pas
torate there
N / Moody has a scheme on foot
-, a Bible in the hands If each Of
N. -so. 600 criminals in the country,
.na he generally carries out what he
undertakes
The action Of Notre Dame uni
,ersity Roman Catholicl in comforting
che degree Of LII. d. on the well-known
congregational clergyman. Rev. Wash
;ncton GLADDEN.. is almost I'M precedent
Oh and will doubtless excite wide com
ment.
The First j apanese Christian church
in America was dedicated in San Fran
cisco recently. l. belongs to the Meth
odist denomination. and has about
three hundred members, who contrib
u,ed largely toward the building OF
the edifice. The assistant minister and
the organst are Japanese. and the
church organization will he managed
by the japanese members with very
little help or interference by Cauca.
slams.
bishop Miadcnoff. head OF the
South Slavic Catholics. has disappeared.
He offered some months ago TO secede
from the Catholic church with a large
number Of Macedonian ulrarians and
70 recognize the exarchate of the Greek
church. Soon after he went TO Con-
stantinople and dined with the exarch.
and has not been seen or heard OF since.
He is be lieved To have accepted an in
vitation 10 visit an American Catholic
convent on the Asiatic side OF the Bos-
porus.
DIR. d. X. Parsons. Of Chicago. has
offered to give Mount Holyoke college
$4,000 IL il will raise an additic nal
$780, in year and half. The gifts
OF DR.. Pearsons to western institutions
aggregate about e.. 900, 600. eight col
leges being the beneficiaries- OF these
Beloit has received se00,0o0. Knox $780,.
900. Chicago Theological school $50. 900,
while he has recently made Whitman
college. of walla walla, Wash. n SINH
lar offer to that now made TO Mount
Holyolse. and Drury college has also
been aided by him.
Prof. Simon Newcomb. OF the ma
tional observatory at Washington. who
has Just been elected an associate OF
the French Academy Of Sciences has
had degrees conferred npon him by
Harvard. Yale. Columbia, Leyden. ane
Heidelber. lie holds the gold media
Of the Royal Astronomical society ane
the great gold Huygens medal OF Ley
den. bestowed only once in twenty
wears. L. is now thrty-fonr year
since he was appointed professor o
mathematics in the United State
navy. and he has been senior profcsso
for nearly twenty years.
The financial statement of th'
PRESBYTERIAN board of foreign mis-
sions for the wear ending April 80. 1895
shows that the total receipts wer'
ssG6.3.s. against ss4i.s5s for the pre-
ceding year. The total expenses. in
GLIDING appropriations for the fields
Church at Home and Abroad" etc.
were sl.0Is.-5-. To this must be add
ed the deficit at the beginning Of tn
year. Si02 .5a.. making a total liza bilit
Of sl.lls.354- Deducting the incom
there remains deficit OF S,5i.s7'
which is lessened. however. by a gal
Of SIS. ST. 10 exchange on silver and b
unused appropriations amounting
s3s. eel, so that the real deficit Is STA
$50.