The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-04-09
SCHOOL ASD CHURCH.

Tho Emperor of Brazil, in order TO
encourage the coming OF Protestant
missionaries into his dominions, mas Oh
fered, it is said, to pay the expenses OF
their transportation.
-One of the beliefs stated at the re-
cent meeting of the Rhode Island teach
crs was that the time has come ior de-
posing arithmetic as the most important
study for children, and substituting the
study of the English language.
The first Christian church ever
built by the Chinese for themselveswas
in Honolulu in 1879 when $4,000 were
collected for the purpose. The CHIEF
subscriber, Chinese merchant and rice
planter who gave $500, came to the
island twenty years ago as coolie ma
slave ship.
Steps have been taken st Harvard
College toward the organization OF q
Harvard Legislature. which is designed
to teach in a practical way parhament-
airy forms and the rules OF debate.
Every member will be placed on some
committee, and there will be two OIL
GERS, Speaker and q Clerk.
Saws the Gohien Rule: :" The great
problem before the churches is how to
fill their pews as the theaters are filled;
how to gather the crowds that circuses
draw; how to reinforce the beggariy
handful that makes up the prayer-meet-
ING audienccs-in q word, how to pop
ularize religion in the best sense OF that
abused term"
The apportionment for the support
of Methodist Bishops, which now falls
wholly upon the churches, has been in
creased for 1881 twenty-five per cent.
on account of the four new Bishops.
The treasurers of the fund announce
that the treasury is empty and that un-
less the churches act promptly the
Bishops will suffer embarrassment.
The Methodist ministers of the
| Springfield district of Massachusetts, in
their annual meeting had a lively two
hours discussion on faith and healing.
Several of the clergymen held that
prayer was effectual in healing the sick
but the majority of the speakers be-
lieved that such cures were wholly the
result of imagination and will.
Preparations are already being
made on q liberal scale for the Interna-
tional SundaySchool Convention, which
is to meet in Toronto on the 22d OF
June. Heretofore these Conventions
have been composed of delegates from
this country and Canada; but now the
invitation is to be extended to all who
will come from the other nations Of the
earth, including the most distant.
The teachers OF, New York and
Brooklyn are making an effort to pass
bill through the Legislature to PEN
sion the teachers of the two cities after
Twenty-Five years. service; or, if disabled
by sickness or accident while teaching,
after fifteen years service, the pension
not to be less than 0ne-half the salary
received at the time of retirement, and
the pension money to be raised in the
same manner as teachers salaries.
DR.. Angus. one Of the English re-
visers Of the New Testament, gives
some interesting details of that work.
which occupied ten years. There were
ten meetings each year, each meeting
extending to four days, a day meaning
about seven hours work, so that in all
the company. in its collective capacity.
spent two thousand eighthundred hours
in the revision. Besides this, however,
every member of both the English and
American committees exhausted his
knowledge and critical ability in his
conscientious lab0rs.