The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-12-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


-Evancelists White and McGranar
ban will shortly begin revivais IN -San
francisco.
The Iowa Methodist Conferences
severely reprimands minister Tor go
ing to circus.
Bishop Tuttle Episcopalian), o,
Utah. has established boarding schooi
Tor girls at Salt Lake City.
There are men at Yale College from
Wales, India, Scotland, New Brun'wick'
Canada, Turkey. Chill, Japan. Norway.
Honolulu and thirty-six States OF tne
Union. -
Since Cornell University was
founded over 81, 800. 900 has been given
| TO it for buildings and equipment Inc
endowment OF the institution is over
LOO, 600, which places it among the
richest endowed institutions OF the
country.
President Washburn, of Robert
College, Constantinople, now in this
country to secure additional endow-
ments for his noble work on the Bos-
porus, saws 500 students of the institu-
ton are scattered throughout the Turk
ish Empire, carrying its influences
among the people.
Prof. CULVER, of the Andover
Theological Seminary. has been care
| fully studying the leading orthodox
doctrines as they are held in New En-
Gland to -day, and his conclusion is that
the theology of that part OF the country
is as sound now as it was IN the time OF
Jonathan Edwards. He finds no change
at all in the orthodox views OF the
trinity, regeneration miracles. the soul
Immortality, and future punishment.
i From the Indian Territory q mis-.
/ sionary OF the American Sunday-schOol
writes: II am laboring among mixed
population of Indians, negroes and
whites; and these last often are the
most needy. I organized a. schoo
lately in a settlement made up OF whites
and Choctaws. which has English and
Indian lessons; and / held meeting
among negroes who, formerly, were
the slaves Of Muscogee masters. They
advance more readily than the Indians
because they know English. For thi.
reason these are likely TO be the domi
nant race in parts Of the Indian Terri
tory"
According to the latest ecclesiasti
cal arithmetic, the Baptists are NOR
numerous in the United States than an.
other of the denominations commonl.
classed As evangelical. The flve re
porting the largest number OF commu
nicants are as follows: Bsptists, 1874,
3S9; Methodists, 1.742. 922; Presbyter
ians, 9l5, 74O; Lutherans. 700, 718; Epis
, copalians. S45,84l. During the las
! year the Baptists increased 163, 624; tn
Methodists, $1,000; the Episcopalians
2O,846; the Presbyterians, 16, 43S; tn
Lutherans, 10, 223. 1t is thus seen tina
the Baptist gain was nearly double tina
, of the other four denominations com
bined.
: "A church which is described, wit
! local pride, as :. standing in architec
ural beauty without an equal in th
United States" has Just been dedicate
: to Protestant Episcopal worship ]
: Lynn, Mass. It is q memorial TO th
I late E. Redington Nudge by his heir
: The outer walls are reddish rubblt
stone. the facings are angles brick an
! the weatherings Nova Scotia freeston'
: richly carved. The building forms
Latin cross, and there is q square tow
. 100 feet high without spire. The il
: fterior is exceedingly ornate, its strikin
= features being the mosaic pavement col
tanning SO, 900 pieces, and the fridescel
2 windows. The cost was $3.50, 900. e.
: elusive of the site and ? large part .
!, the stone, which was quargied on Il