Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — MISSIONARY NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MISSIONARY NOTES.

The Ladies’ Society for Female Education, of the Free Church of Scotland, employs 174 native Christian female teachers in India and 58 In South Africa. Its European staff in India numbers 30, and in South Africa 14. The income last year amounted to £8,691. In the Soudan there is nearly 100, - 000,000 of people. Half of these are Mohammedan, and the rest heathen. Ai pioneer band of missionaries is about to labor in the midst of this neglected' field. This is th 6 work projected bythe Rev. Dr. H. Grattan Guinness,, who recently visited this country. Three missionary studentships of £Bl a year are to be given next October at; Selwyn College, Cambridge, England.! They are open to the graduates and tenable for one or more years as the Master and Council of the college see, fit. The holders of the studentships will be required to follow studies suitable for the county where they intend to labor. The Baptist Missionary Society, at its annual meeting held recently in, London, reported very encouragingly of its wqrk. The expenditures for the year were £82,081, being in advance of the receipts by about £2,472J Among the addresses delivered on the occasion was one by the Rev. A. T. Pierson, who had travelled from Rome 1 to be present at the meeting. The receipts of the American Board for the month of May amounted to $83,255.83, indioating an increase over the same month of last year of nearly $5,000. The total receipts for the nine months of the present year are $454,228. This shows a gain over the same period last year: of $128,534. Of this gain $80,662 is in donations and $92,973 in legacies. ~ The friends of both sexes who are to accompany the Rev. G. F. Pentecost to India, and go out from England, Scotland, and probably America, do so at their own charges. Their aim will be to reach first the Anglo-Indian population and then the English-Speak-ing natives. The missionary tour will last about two years. A number of ladies in Edinburg have Arranged to hold a periodical prayer-meeting for: the success of the mission. Miss Jenness, the New York girl who proposes hereafter to sit her horse “man fashion” when taking exercise on horse-baek, has this to say of her plan and of the ridding habit she proposes to wear:—“And why not a divided garment for clothing women’s legs as well as a man? Were these usefull members not given women for the same purpose that they were given toman? Nothing in their anatomical construction would suggest any conclusions, and why then clothe them differently when by so clothing them freedom and grace of movement are so sacrificed? Besides, riding sideways cramps the back and stops circulation in the right leg. Then, too, there is the difficulty of getting a skirt to stay comfortably In place, and they are now so closely fitted and strapped down that there is considerable danger in case of an accident. A very one-sided development is the consequence, besides the many discomforts to the horse. It is more difficult for the horse to travel squarely with an even gait; saddle galls are almost sure to form. Saddles also have to be strapped so tight in order not to slip as to be a course of continued discomfort to the poor, uncomplaining brute. The admirers of Stanley at the University of Cambridge have subscribed for a gown to be presented to the great explorer on the occasion of his receiving the honorary degree conferred upon him by the University. The gift is almost unprecedented, for the recipients of degrees are usually obliged to buy their own robes, besides paying heavy fees. Rev.* Mr. Talmage says “There is no happiness in this world for an idle woman.” Mr. Talmage should reserve his sympathy for the overworked woman. The idle woman can derive considerable pleasure from a twentyfive cent novel a*d a five dollar poodle dog. ■ I ....