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EGYPT. 



EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. 



E. 1,900,000. The state is expected to get a 

 direct annual return of E. 850,000. The in- 

 creased value of land, it is calculated, will be 

 E. 40,198,180, the increased annual produce 



small square yard and a two-roomed house, with 

 complete arrangements for cooking and wash- 

 ing. The buildings are of sun-dried bricks, and 

 are said to be neat and comfortable. There is 

 a fire department with 

 modern appliances, and 



MODEL VILLAGE OF KOOBEH, EGYPT. 



E. 12,612,900, and the increased annual rent 

 E. 5,390,000. W. E. Garstin, the Under Sec- 

 retary of the Department of Public Works, esti- 

 mates the cost of the dam and reservoir at 

 E. 1,695,000 and of works for the utilization 

 of the water at E. 3,001.000. The Society for 

 the Preservation of the Monuments of Ancient 

 Egypt, and other groups of archaeologists, artists, 

 and historians, protested against .the project on 

 the ground that it would ruin the remains of 

 towns, cemeteries, and temples of Debod, Tafeh. 

 Dakkeh. and other interesting places in Nubia, 

 and especially the temples of Philae, which would 

 be submerged during several months of the year. 

 M. Boule objected to the project chiefly on ac- 

 count of the ruins on the island of Philae, and 

 his English colleague suggested that the temples 

 could be raised bodily on their present site at a 

 cost of E. 150,000. The land companies that 

 caused Nubar Pasha's perplexity and other specu- 

 lators have bought many thousands of acres in 

 anticipation of their being made valuable by the 

 new scheme of irrigation. M. Boule and others 

 considered that the welfare of the people would 

 be better promoted, and the ancient monuments 

 preserved at the same time, by the gradual con- 

 struction of a series of lower dams to increase 

 the water supply in proportion to the expansion 

 of agricultural requirements. The Egyptian 

 Government in the summer of 1894 decided to 

 adopt the larger scheme, and to begin the work 

 as soon as a detailed plan can be made. 



A Model Village. The Khedive has recently 

 given considerable attention to the subject of 

 village reform, and has caused the remodeling 

 of the village of Koobeh, near one of his resi- 

 dences, a short distance northeast of Cairo. The 

 illustration shows some of the old houses in the 

 foreground and a street of the new ones above 

 and beyond. Each door is the entrance to a 



water works with pump- 

 ing machinery to lift the 

 water from the canals. 



EVANGELICAL AS- 

 SOCIATION. This body 

 has, for 1894, according 

 to the report of the sta- 

 tistical secretary, 1,227 

 preachers,2,112 churches, 

 and 142,353 members, 

 withl,800Sundayschools, 

 having 163,000' pupils, 

 and 898 young people's al- 

 liances, organized into 15 

 conference branches, and 

 returning, after an exist- 

 ence of three years, 21,620 

 members. The year's 

 contributions for home 

 and foreign missions 

 were nearly $150,000. 



A decision given by 

 the Supreme Court of 

 Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, in 

 the case known as the 

 Reading church case,was regarded as settling 

 the status of all the churches of the Evangelical 

 Association in that State. The case was a suit 

 by the majority party for the possession of 

 Immanuel Church, in Reading, Pa., the large 

 majority of the members of which being at- 

 tached to the minority was held by that party. 

 It had been before the court for several years. 

 A preliminary opinion had been given, in view 

 of the merits in favor of the minority party in 

 possession by Master-in-Chancery Richards, and 

 this opinion had been confirmed by a local 

 court. 



The present decision of the Supreme Court 

 reversed the opinion of the master in chan- 

 cery, and gave the church to the majority par- 

 ty. As the points involved are identical in 

 application to all the churches of the denomina- 

 tion in Pennsylvania, the decision may be made 

 good for all of them. The court summarized 

 its conclusions as to the general points in ques- 

 tion as follows : 



1. The General Conference that met at Indianapo- 

 lis in 1891 was the regular successor of that of 1SS7, 

 and was the General Conference of the Evangelical 

 Association of North America. "2. The alleged Gen- 

 eral Conference that met in Philadelphia in 1891 was 

 an unauthorized body, and its assumption of ecclesi- 

 astical authority was an act of rebellion against the 

 organization with which its members had been con- 

 nected, and whose name was adopted. 3. Those 

 annual conferences, congregations, and individual 

 church members that adhere to the General Confer- 

 ence constitute the Evangelical Association. 4. Those 

 annual conferences, congregations, and individual 

 church members that adhere to the Philadelphia 

 body are not within the Evangelical Association, bul 

 have become by their own acts an independent and 

 hostile association. 5. The property which prior to 

 1891 belonged to the Evangelical Association now 

 belongs to and must be controlled by those who still 

 constitute that organization. 



