Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — Science Against the Almighty. [ARTICLE]

Science Against the Almighty.

Krupp is making guns in Germany which throw red-hot stoves through the air seven or eight miles, but the man is born who will kill him with a sinal'l pill or pea of some kind. The wonders of science, whibh were expected to supplant religious systems in some way, nave, up to this time, merely supplanted the usual common sense of mankind. They have destroyed what was the last Work of God himself to execute, man and woman.— Gath’s New York letter. p

Both the Mason & Hamlin organs and pianos excel chieiiy in that which is the chief excellence in any musical instrument, quality t>f tm,e. Other things, though important, are much less so than this. An instrument with unmusical tones cannot be a good musical instrument. Yet all are not good judges of speh a matter. An inferior quality of tone will often please the uncultivated ear best, at first, though time and use will reveal the superiority of really good tone. Hence in selecting an organ it is safer to choose one from a maker whose reputation is thoroughly established, and whose productions are acknowledged to have superlative excellence, especially in this chief thing.— Boston Journal.

IThe Society of Friends reports a total membership in this country of about 75,000, and in Great Britain and Ireland about 18,000. They carry on considerable work. Among the various Indian tribes they have twentyfive Friends engaged in teaching, and iu the foreign field are doing a noble service They are sustaining thirteen missionaries in Madagascar, five in India, and a medical mission in Turkey under the care of the London Yearly Meeting. In S;. ria they have two stations, Burmana and Mount Lebanon, with training home for boys and girls, three Sabbath-schools and nine day schools. At Ramallah, near Jerusalem, they have seven schools. These are, under the care of thq New England and London Yearly Meeting.