The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-30
NEWS AND NOTES.


sity, Toxic. and more than a dozen
| Christian professors. For these a Chris
! tan hostel or dornitory has been estab-
| lished by the American Baptists, who
maintain missionary there, Rev. H.
| B. Bennington. whose work Is chiefly
among the students.
The German excavators on the site of
the ancient Babylon have found the pal
fully unearthed until after several years
of labor
The native government of Mysore,
India, has resolved to introduce religious
teaching into the government schools
and colleges. Hindu instruction will be
given from the Hindu sacred writings,
Mohammedan instruction from the Ko-
ran, Christian instruction from the
Bible, to the pupils of these respective
faiths.
this year the Brotherhoods of Andrew
and Philip of Philadelphia. In co-opera-
ton with the Y. M. c. A. engaged in
holding automobile evangelistic meet
ipgs along the city streets: Meetings to
the number of 119 were held, 43 chap
ters of the Brotherhood engaged In the
work, 21,420 attended and 256 volunteers
shared the work. The entire cost Of this
summer campaign was $25.35.
Mrs. A. E. Stetson. whom many re-
garded as ambitious to succeed Mrs.
Eddy as the head of the Christian
Science church. has been ousted from
her official position and her license to
teach revoked by the Boston church.
Mrs. Stetson has been the moving spirit
in the New York Christian Science
church.
Doctors Morrison and Sheppard, the
missionaries Of the Southern Presby-
terrain church on the Congo. have been
acquitted of ubeling the Kassai Rubber
company by a Belgian court. It is
thought improbable that an appeal will
be taken, as the prosecution as first
threatened to do. 1t is supposed that
the Belgians interested in the rubber
business on the Congo now regard this
prosecution as an unwiSe step, because
1t has only concentrated further public
attention upon the Congo atrocities
DR.. George Edward Post, for many
years head Of the Medical college in
Beirut, Syria, died recently at his post.
ton in some places Is undertaking to
supplant gambling and horse racing at
the county fairs by athletic meets under
direction of the association.
A descendant of the pagan Hawaiians,
who were converted by Massachusetts,
missionaries, Rev. Mr.. Akaiko, a stu
dent at Hartford seminary, Is now
preaching in the town of Shutesbury,
Mass. A neighboring clergyman re-
marked. "Who at food tide N these
hills fifty years ago, would have pro-
phesied that the son of q then pagan
race would now be giving instruction to
the children of the Pilgrims. But bread
cast upon the waters returns from far
away seas
1.-THE old Moulmein pagoda" is familiar
to all readers of Kiplings "On the Road
to Mandalay," but the actual pagoda
was known from childhood by Rev. F.
ID. Crawley. who died few weeks ago
in the service of the Northern Baptist
missionary society. He was born in
Moulmein, Burma, and since 1895 he
has served the English-speaking people
of that city as pastor of their church.
The federal council of the Brother
hood of Andrew and Philip has recent
| " reorganized so that the council shall
onsist of twenty-five laymen repre-
senting various denominations, instead
Of both ministers and laymen. The
reorganization was advocated by the
founder of the Brotherhood. DR.. Rufus
w. Miller
Instead of going on the Carnegie
foundation. Haverford college Of Ha-
wexford, Pennsylvania, which repre-
sents the Orthodox branch of the So
ciety of Friends, has created a retire
ment fund for it's teachers. The sum
of one hundred thousand dollars is
being set apart for this purpose. In
order to get on the Carnegie founda-
ton, 1t is necessary for a college to
sever it's UNCONVENTIONAL relationships
Two thousand men attended the re-
cent national convention of the
brotherhood of st. Andrew at Provi-
dence. The next convention will be
held year hence in Nashville.