The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The General Assembly of the Pres.
byterian Church (Southerm will meet al
Charleston, May 20.
Moody and Sankey are on an ex-
tended tour for the purpose of obtaining
needed rest. They have journeyed as
far as Texas, and will soon push toward
New Mexico.
OF the $4,000 Methodist Episcopal
ministers in this country there are, ac-
cording to the Methodist, only eleven who
have blots ON their names, and three of
these have been condemned uniustly.
The air must have been very bad in
a certain unventilated church, when the
minister said to the sexton that if such
foul air were used for blowing the organ
1t would put the instrument out of tune.
Wisconsin spent 2,513, ,301. SO on her
public schools last year. OF the school
population of 4S3, 453, $685. ,2S6 attended
school, leaving nearly 100000 children
without instruction.
"A Lutheran preacher of eminence in
Berlin complained in a recent sermon
that one-third of the scholars in the
higher schools of that capital are Jews,
though they form only five per cent. of
the population.
Now that the subscriptions necessary
to pay the debts of the Southern Meth
odlst Publishing house at Nashville have
all been taken in, the agent has begun
the work OF turning them into available
cash. The total amount is 5000, 900, and
it is to be hoped that there will not be
much shrinkage.
MIR. Weatherwax, the new State AS
SCISSOR in New York, says that there is
more property under church control in
the State than is necessary for strictly
religious purposes, and that he does not
see why this surplus wealth should be
exempt from sustaining its share of the
public burden.
Germany spends more money per
capita for school education than either
England, Austria-Hungary, France.
Spain, Italy or Russia. The expendi-
ture is about 20 cents head of the pop
ulation; England's, about A cents; Aus
tria-Hungary's, about 40 cents; frances,
about 36 cents; Spain's, about 32 cents;
Italy about 20 cents, and Russia S, about
6 cents.
"A Methodist gentleman who owned
farm of one hundred and twenty-five
acres near Rhinebeck, n. Y, has given
1T for the purpose of building OH it
number of cottage homes for worn-out
Methodist preachers. The cottages are
to be as cozy as possible, thus making
the old gentlemen who are to live in
them far more comfortable than if they
were lodged in the little square rooms of
seven-story asylum in the suburbs of
some great city.
The Christians in Armenia appeal
to the civilized nations of the world to
save them from threatened extermina-
ton at the hands of the Turks. They
are denied the rights of citizenship, their
lands are wrested from them on trifling
pretences, their homes are ravaged, and
their women treated with the utmost
brutality. For all this there is no re-
dress. The Turks call them 9. Christian
dogs" and treat them accordingly.
Since the Crimean war the Christian
population of Armenia has been reduced
and in some of the cities and |
towns there are no Christians left.
Mr.. Ell. Kerry, native of Samaria,
in England, and returned
mssionary-physician, discovered Syna-
logue Record, kept at ancient Sychar,
that reaches back hundreds of years be-
lore Christ. He learned that the priest
in Christ's time was named Shaffeer.
On searching the Record for some possi-
Die note of jesus visit, he found instead
'he following important testimony to his
In the nineteenth year of
ny priesthood, and the 4,281st year of
he world, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Mary, was crucified at Jerusalem