Identifier: churchat19pres (find matches)
Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan. - June 1896)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work

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CTION.—Years Work—Primitive Church Edifices, 428,429 COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES.—The Presbyterian College of the Southwest, President Enos P. Baker, 500,501 EDUCATION.—Educated Beyond Humble Parishes, Rev. E. D. Morris, D.D., . . 501-504 MINISTERIAL RELIEF—Review of Twenty Years—The Annual Report, .... 504-506FREEDMEN.—A Trying Year—Rev. Thomas A. Grove—A New Appointment—The Talented Tenth, Rev. H. L. Morehouse, D.D. (from The Independent), .... 506-509 CHILDRENS CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.—Letter of Rev. W. J. Swallen, .... 510, 511YOUNG PEOPLES CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.—Laban—Christian Endeavor in China—That Deep Well—Everything Shall Live—Acquainted with the Map—Missionary Per-sonals—Notes—Contemporary Thought—Christian Training Course—The Board of Home Missions—The Board of Foreign Missions, 511-521 GLEANINGS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 521-525 Worth Reading, 525 Questions for June Missionary Meeting, 525, 526 Book Notices 526, 527 Ministerial Necrology, 527, 528
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THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD. Junk, i896. CURRENT EVENTS AND THE KINGDOM. THE SHAH OF PERSIA. The late Shah, Nasr-ed-Din, to whose en-lightened progressiveness Persia owes manyof the reforms introduced during the lastdecade, granted protection to our mission-aries. Will their position be equally secureunder his successor? Great anxiety is nat-urally felt. THE LORDS DAY IN ENGLAND. For the first time Parliament has, by adecided vote, assented to the opening of theBritish Museum and National Gallery onSundays. It is an ominous step, says theFree Church Monthly, indicating a distinctchange in the nations attitude towards theLords Day. But what is more serious isthe indisputable fact that the act of the leg-islature is sustained to a large extent bypublic opinion. DUELLING IN GERMANY. The duel in Germany between Count vonKotze and Baron von Schrader has led toserious thought on the part of influentialcitizens. While it is true that the customis encouraged in the higher circles, and theEm

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