The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

1T is said that fremont Temple,
Boston, offers the Rev. Dr. Ellis, Of
Denver, salary of $4,000 year to
accept its pastorate.
Mr.. Moody, in his winters work in
st. Louis, has given special attention
to the colored people, of whom there
are $4,000 in that city. He has preached
to them nearly every Sunday morning,
and has made great impression on
many of his hearers. 1t is said that q
number of prominent colored men have
been converted.
The Rev. DR.. Morehouse, Secretary
of the American Baptist Home Mission
Society, who has just returned from the
South, tells this story to show the need
of educating the colored preachers: A
colored minister in explanation of the
''cherubims" informed his hearers that
"thereIwere cherry beams across the
temple, and the Holy Ghost came down
and sat on the cherry beams ish9
The Atlanta (Ga) Baptist Semi.
nary has ninety students. Most of the
freedmen under its charge are studying
for the ministry, and some of these are
making heroic efforts to obtain an edu-
cation. One of them had to sell his
overcoat. Another tried living on one
meal day. The wife of another
takes in washing to support him. An
other worked for some months as a
cook. s.-......
g DIR. Jessup, Presbyterian mission
ary, writing from Beyrout, Syria, says
the Government at Constantinople has
given notice that hereafter any Moslem
who becomes a Christian will be put to
death, and that any foreigners subvert-
ing Moslemism by teaching Christianity
shall be imprisoned without notice to
their Consuls. In Syria, however INTEL
ligent Moslems condemn this action.
The movement out Of which the
"Salvation Army grew was begun in
London in 1865 among the churchless
poor by one man. Now there are 122
corps engaged in the work, under 1876
officers. They are using weekly 14S
theaters, warehouses, and other build
ings for services. They held, last year,
1000 outdoor and $4,000 indoor serv-
ices, and employed 257 persons as Off
GERS, ministers, missionaries, colpor-
teurs, and bible women, and 1926 9TH
ers occasionally.
"A young clergyman Of the Episco-
pal Church went to seminary of an
other denomination because at his own
they spent so much time teaching them
to read the service properly. It would
not be amiss if more attention were
given in other seminaries to the study of
prayers Many men fall into form
which is not as good and is quite as
formal as written ritual. We all know
it, in the pulpit and in the prayer-meet-
ing. Not all spontaneous prayer is edi-
flying to the hearers, however it may be
accepted above. It ought to be posi-
BILE to have both sincerity and variety in
prayer. - Christian Union. }sr
lua-Dr. J., T.. Diman, of Brown Univer-
sity, in the sixth of his Lowell Institute
lectures, advanced views which are
looked upon as important, in that they
are perhaps the first public avowal on
the part of professed theologian of full
faith in evolution of a philosophical
principle, applicable in the historic sci
ences. He avowed his implicit conf
dence in it as a valuable if not entirely
fresh addition to formal philosophy,
and it will exert, in his opinion, a
wholesome influence upon the method
ology of historic and scientific theology
IN. Y Tribune. bla " fe,