The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A Methodist mission for training
native preachers is in successful opera
ton in Japan.
"A Congregational church is being
formed by the colored people Of Boston
with the aid of the American Mission
airy Association.
The most successful woman
preacher in America is Miss Shaw, who
officiates in q neat little church in
fishing town in Massachusetts, and
draws snug salary of 81, $50 year.
The Episcopalians in New York
have undertaken to raise money to
build house of worship for Pere Hya-
cinthe in Paris. to cost 80, 900. In order
that NJ. Loyson may give his time
wholly to preaching, it IS proposed to
raise 81, 900 for the coming year, that
assistants may be hired to do parochial
work.
The Governor of Tahiti recently
gave the Protestant missionary Vernier,
who had spent thirteen years in that
island, free passage to France and re-
turn, and told him that hereafter he
could 90 and return free every five
years, in recognition of his services.
This is marked change in the Govern
ment's treatment of Protestant mission
aries.
Professor Blackie. of Edinburgh Uni
versity, has made speech to his students
in which he advocated the study of at
least two modern languages and one an
cient, as indispensable to culture. The
study of one modern language ought
to be included in the Master of Arts
curriculum. 1t was foolish to spend
ones energies on the subject of g evolu-
ton out of an antediluvian rate or the
infinitessimal brain of pre-Adamite
slater"
The yearly incomes of the heads of
the Anglican Church are as follows:
The Archbishop of Canterbury, $751;
900; the Bishop of York, $50. 900; the
Bishop of London, $50, 200; the Bishop
of Durham, $40, 900; the Bishop of Win
chester, $4,000; the Bishop of Ely,
$27. 800; the Bishop of st. Asaph, $780,
900; and the rest not less than 500, 900
and not more than $25, 900 each. Each
Bishop has, moreover, palace" or
official residence.
The school authorities of Koenigs-
UtT2, L IuSSId, have ucClutu W iiltIO-
duce industrial branches in the element
airy schools. One of the city teachers
has been charged to visit the schools
where the system of Mr.. Clauson Kaas
has been tried. The secondary schools
in Prussia (Gymnasian and Realschulen)
are attended by las, O92 pupils, of whom
LOG, 745 are Protestants, 23,774 Roman
Catholics, 1888 Jews and thirty Dis
senters. Ten years ago the total num-
Der of pupils was only 99,419.
The Indians of the great Territory
of Alaska seem anxious to have mission
aries and teachers live among them.
One of the most efficient and successful
laborers in that country is Mrs. A. X.
Mcfarland, who has been teaching at
Fort Wrangell for three years past. Last
August she opened an Industrial Home
for Girls. which promises to do much
good. The various schools opened in
Alaska are well attended. The one at
Sitka, in charge of a Miss Austin, has
over one hundred and thirty pupils, who
are really making rapid progress in
learning, considering how few external
aids they have. Four blackboards, forty
slate< and pencils and sixteen benches
were all the apparatus the school con-
tanned. Yet they learned the alphabet
and many short words with great quick
ness, and are ready to use books as soon
as they can be obtained. At Fort Wran-
gall there is an organized church Of
thirty members.