THERE is one branch of the work which we will mention in these notes, namely, the educational. For many years the central school of the denomination has been Battle Creek College, designed primarily as a school for Christian workers. At the first it was situated in the outskirts of the city, but since the first building was erected the city has more than doubled its population, and the college buildings are in the midst of a residence portion of the town. A TRUE Christian school of the highest character must be an industrial, practical school, as well as a school in which are taught science, history, philosophy, ethics, etc. Physical exercise is necessary in order to preserve the equilibrium of the system and conserve physical health. If this physical exercise can be largely taken in educating the student in those pursuits of life which minister to the good of humanity, how much better it is than to expend it in games or sports which minister broken limbs and ruined constitutions, excite the spirit of gambling, and often lead to direful results. Not all students engage in such sports in the large schools of the country, but those who use all possible time in study frequently find themselves life-long dyspeptics and nervous wrecks. All these evils are, to a great extent, corrected by a properly-conducted Christian industrial school. ANOTHER thought: Education among men of various characters, education in the town and city, is frequently of a superficial character, and at its best, incomplete. It breeds insincerity from constant contact with men who hide their true purposes and motives. On the contrary, nature and its associations inculcate sincerity. Nature and its works do not deceive. A strength of character is developed in association with nature in all her moods that the city can not give. And strength of character and pureness of purpose are more than mere culture or polish. The great men of the land are those from rural communities. The cities must be replenished from the country, at least after one or two generations. APPRECIATING the truth of the foregoing, Battle Creek College stockholders and board of directors have planned to sell the college to the sanitarium, and move the school to a point farther west, in the fruit belt of Michigan, where the school may be made an industrial school indeed, and the book of nature may be studied and compared with the Book of life, God's Holy Word. We shall say more hereafter, as plans more fully develop. In an address before the Southern Educational Conference, recently held in Greensboro, N. C., Dr. Chas. H. Parkhurst had a good deal to say about the corruption of the New York City government. Among other things he told of an insult that was given to his wife on the streets of New York by an officer of the law. Speaking of this experience he said of his wife that she “walked a few blocks up town to a certain street. There she was accosted and addressed in a manner of the grossest impropriety by one of our so-called uniformed protectors. I mean that one of the men who are supposed to be the guardians of lives and property, the protectors of the weak, addressed her in a gross and outrageous way. I can not here repeat what he said.” It seems incredible that conditions have reached the place where an officer of the law can feel safe in offering insult to a lady in the open streets of a great city. How can public indignation keep from rising so high that it will drive such occurrences from the face of the earth? There can be but one solution, and that is that the public conscience has become so callous to the crimes and vices of the time that it does not notice them. And right in the midst of this social gangrene men are proclaiming the fable that the world is getting better. The facts will not warrant the statement. Let us learn to look at facts rather than to fanciful theories.