Madagascar Army Deka Reforms and Church-State Ties Examined
Henry C. Clark argues for fair presentation of Madagascar military reforms from 1876 including the removal of idle deka and selective reassignments to education and church work. He defends missionary influence, disputes Street’s view of a State Church, and praises Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony for education gains and restraint on rum traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madagascar
Society of Friends
England
Street
Sewell
London Missionary Society
Antananarivo
Rainilaiarivony
Henry C. Clark
The
Friends’ Foreign Mission Association
Lifton Villas
Woodhouse Moor
Leeds
Norwood Orphan Society Seeks Help to Relieve Debt
G. T. Coster appeals in the Norwood Advertiser for reader support to relieve the Norwood Orphan Society debt and expand its work. The society boards out orphans in respectable foster homes, with schooling and church attendance, lacking any orphan badge and emphasizing family life and personal development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood Orphan Society
G. T Coster
Clarence House
South Norwood
Notes of an Autumn Trip to Naples III
The author describes delaying rest in Naples due to mosquitoes and traveling to Rome. He views the Colosseum and ruins, reflects on Rome’s ancient power, visits St. Peter’s and a parish church on the Appian Way, notes the Mausoleum of Augustus, and comments on the Corso and church indulgence notices with skeptical views on priestly absolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Rome
Colosseum
Italy
Ths
Macaulay
Horatius
Aulus
Tiber
S. Angelo
St. Peter’s
St. Paul’s
Westminster Abbey
Christmas and the Poor letter to the editor
The writer recalls last year when readers generously funded nearly 500 Christmas dinners for poorer children at Boxing Day in St Thomas's Hall South Hackney and asks for continued support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Thomas's Hall
South Hackney
Christmas Provisions Drive Aids Hackney Juvenile Mission
The Hackney mission report notes ninety Christmas provision parcels for widows and district residents. In its sixth winter season the appeal seeks donations of provisions clothing or money to H. M. Heath at St. Thomas's Road or to the mission addressed locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loddiges-road
Hackney
H. M. Heath, Esq
St. Thomas's Road
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Norwood Orphan Asylum
Nonconformist
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