The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Moody and Sankey have declined
the invitation to spend year in London.
There is school population Of 744,-
331 in Missouri, and shool funds TO the
amount of $54) ,671.83 have just been
distributed.
The Episcopal Clergymen's Insur-
ance League had paid 1916, 900 to the
widows and orphans of deceased clergy
men during the last thirteen years.
AS the result of vote taken by
sixty-one Presbyteries, instrumental
music will be introduced into the United
Presbyterian Church of North America.
The ballot stood GIG to 606.
There are ten groups Of churches all
subject toa general council. These are:
Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch,
Jerusalem, Russia, Cyprus, Austria.
Mount Sinai, Montenegro and the Hell
lenic Church. The number of members
in all of the branches is nearly 75,000,-
600.
The general minutes of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, give these
statistics for 1881: Travelling preachers,
8, 704; superanuated preachers, 307; local
preachers, $685.; white members, 844,-
367; colored members, 993; Indian men,
bers, 5,451; total ministers and members,
$50. 6S7, being an increase last year Of
1884; Sunday schools, $50; teachers,
81, Az; scholars, 462, 32t-increase last
year, 21,707.
1T may surprise some persons to be
told that the seat of learning in the
United States having the largest income
is the University of Michigan, which has
$500, 600 year at its disposal. Harvard
comes next, while Yale and Columbia
are close together. In property be-
queathed by private individuals Harvard
leads all the rest, of course, its entire
endowment practically coming from that
source. Chicago Herald.
The Connecticut Legislature has
provided that School Boards, on the pc
tition of twelve adult residents, may
order instruction in the public schools
concerning the effects Of intoxicating
beverages. The liquor dealers in some
of the cities are preparing to oppose the
use of text books made for the purpose
by total abstinence societies and to insist
on scientifically accurate works. The
brewers will take part in the contro-
versy by demanding that the children be
taught that beer in moderation is not
hurtful.
Elder David w. Patman, rather the
leading light of the so-called Hardshell
Baptists Of Georgia, is dead. He was
an eccentric man, of no education, a
blacksmith as well as preacher, but
man of great zeal and virtuous life. In
his small church at Cobbham, he preached
for years, but his flock never grew very
much. 1t was made up OF white and
colored people. They were separated
by a railing, and the women sat apart
from the men. They washed each others
feet on communion Sundays with great
solemnity.
Chaplain McCabe, who is the head
and front of the Methodist Church Ex-
tension Society. found at least one APP
preciative nearer at the recent Northern
New York Conference at Malone, as this
welcome and characteristic note from
ex-Vice President Wheeler, Presbyte-
rian, shows: please get out Of this
region while have something left. To
reconcile you in some measure to going.
enclose my check to your order for
81, 1000 Put the money into your From
tier work in multiplying the foundations
of Christian citizenship, and may Gods
blessing go with you, as mine does.
When you get the country well under
brushed we will send out some Presby-
terians and put on the finishing touches.
Chicago Tribune.