The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

I'm England, Scotland and Wales
last year, $500. 600 was spent on tech.
meal education, nearly a million more
than the year before.
During the past year the American
Sunday-School union has established
1,7s5 new Sunday-Schools and reports
the conversion of about II, 900 persons.
Miss Kate Field has received an IN
usual honor from the French govern.
ment, which was conferred upon her
the Academic palm, and named her
''Officer de lInstruction Publique."
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal
church has issued over 5000, 600 pages
of missionary literature during the last
year. 1t has 6,l2s organizations, with
l5S, 500 members.
Chinese Christians are conducting
an agitation against the cruel custom
of foot binding. At a gathering in the
Central NJ. E. church, Shanghai, num-
boring six hundred persons, commit
tee was appointed for an active cru
SADIE.
DIR. Franz Newman, who gives
lectures on physics and mineralogy 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.
Rev. Eric Farrar, son of the arch
deacon, was a 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 2 200 more than
the chairman of the board. Mr.. Far
rar is as popular a 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 hum
dred dollars through the state depart
ment at Washington from Spain as
indemnity for the loss of property and
other injury inflicted upon its work at
Pouape, one of the Caroline islands, by
the Spanish authorities a few years
ago.
The 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 berated the
newspapers for printing his sermons.
on the ground that he is thereby I'M
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 DIR. Parker's sermons
to an invalid friend, but he now sees
that he was wrong. He ought to have
sent the 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-
perienee. Going TO a bank with a check,
the clerk handed it back with a request
that he would indorse il and IL SD 1uld
then be cashed. After much delibe.-a-
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: Il heartily indorse this
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