The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-08-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


No opium smoker is admitted to
church membership by any Christian
mission working in China
More copies of the Scriptures were
sold in Japan in 1880 than in all the
wears since it was open to Christian CIV
| ilization.
Professor William I. Reid has been
elected President of the University OF
California. He has had considerable
experience as teacher in the East anu
in San Francisco.
Nearly all OF class of fifteen grad
uatinc from the United Presbyterian
Seminary at Xenia, Ohio. have volun-
teered their services as foreign mission
aries. but for the lack of funds only
two can be sent out, one to Egypt ana
another to India.
The completed returns OF the En-
glish Wesleyan Church show that it has
$50, 922 Members net increase III
4.24l. Over 80, 900 new members were
received. OF the net increase Ills
were gained in London. There are
seventv-nine candidates for the min
istry.
According to correspondence OF the
National Baptist, there are more than
700, 900 colored members Of Baptist
churches in the United States. In South
Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Texas
three of the Sunday school missionaries
of the Baptist Publication Society re-
port that 152 Sunday-schools were Or
ganized last wear.
One of the most important places
of education in Paris now is the Asa
tian College. 1t dates from 1878, and
was first opened in shop in the Rue
DIES Ecoles. To-day it includes some
$50 pupils. 1t grew out of determi-
nation to establish a place OF education
where physical science should occupy
the ground hitherto absorbed by the
classics, which the older Universities
rcsolutely refused to permit.
Mr.. Emerson many years ago. in
the DAYS of TranscendentalIsn, supplied
for long time pulpit in East Lexing-
ton, Mass. The Rev. DIR. Hedge, who
was then q young preacher in Maine,
came to Lexington and preached for
several Sundays. A lady of the con-
gregation, saws the Literary World, was
asked how Mr. Hedge was liked. 30"
said she. 1--WE are very simple people
aud can understand nobody but Mr..
Emerson"
while the Mormons are sending
their missionaries all over the civilized
world in quest of converts and recruits
| the various Christian denominations
are doing their best to evangelize Utah.
The Presbyterians have forty-lour mis-
sionaries in the Territory; eleven of
these are clergymen, the others being
teachers. About $25, 900 a year is spent
/ in the salaries of these missionaries,
and about $40, 900 more in erecting new
church aud school buildings. The Con-
gregationalists have two ministers and
five teachers. They have recently re-
ceived an endowment of $50, 900 for ed
ucational purposes. The Episcopalians
maintain aliberal outfit of church, school
and hospital work. The Methodists
have ten ministers and eight teachers,
some of whom receive only twenty dol
lars month salary. The Woman's
Home Missionary Society contributes to
this work. and the regular missionary
fund of the Church appropriates Sc, 200
a year. Utah is considered BY judicious
missionaries one of the most hopeful of
all fields. Many of the people there are
SO disguised with Mormonism that they
are ready to accept almost any form of
faith that offers relief from it.
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