The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The colored Baptists in Tennessee
number 10000, and have $50 churches.
The Fulton Street On. Y.,) daily
noon prayer meeting has been estao-
hshed twenty-five years.
The Presbyterian Church of Canada
is raising 100000 to build churches for
the immigrants who are pouring into
Manitoba.
Mount Eagle. Tenn, has been Sc
lected as tho site for the establishment
of Southern Chautauqua, to be con-
Quoted on the broadcast basis of Biblical
Christianity,
Rev. DR.. Macarthur thinks there are
in New York City enough church men,
bers not enrolled with any of the city or
CARNATIONS to make ''fifteen churches
above the average in size, wealth, social
position and Christian activity
"A pretty sight at the evening SER
vice of church in Newport. VT. was
the unfolding of night blooming cereus.
which was carried in by parishioner.
The blossoms attained their full size near
the close of the service,
The old slave market at Zanzibar,
where formerly $4,000 slaves were sold
annually, has been transformed into
mission premises, with church, mission
house and school, under the charge of
the Universities Mission to Africa,
started in 1859 at the suggestion of DIR.
Livingstone Y. Times.
New York City has a school $50
years old, the Dutch Church School. 1t
was founded in 1888 and has been kept
up continually ever since. The present
school house was erected in 1860 and the
Dutch architecture was perpetuated in
its building. 1t is claimed to be the
oldest educational establishment in the
country.
=" How to get people to church. is a
much-discussed question in these days.
When Mr.. Spurgeon was asked how he
succeeded so wonderfully in keeping his
church full, he replied: 81 fill the pulpit
and let the people fill the pews." DR..
Chalmers told part Of the secret when
he said: "A house-going preacher makes
a church-going people. - Waterman.
The faculty of Amherst College are
convinced that oratorial abilities are more
natural than acquired, and that their
possessors have been given undeserved
honors in commencement exercises. Con-
sequently, the occasional speakers will
hereafter be selected for good scholar
ship, and not for fine voices and graceful
gesters. The students favor the change.
which is return to the system formerly
followed. Boston Post.
philadelphia has night-schools for
workingwUmen, in which the studies are
divided as follows: Those which every
woman needs for herself, such as read
ing, writing and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and hygiene-sewing, and cutting and
fitting; those which contribute to the
enjoyment of her leisure. such as French,
German, history and literature; and such
as contribute to her power of improving
her home-life--viz: cooking, reading
aloud, and singing. The teachers are CON-
petent volunteers Philadelphia Press.
During the semi Centennial services,
recently held at the Ithaca, N. Y,
Methodist Conference, four divines, who
had been in the ministry for fifty years
and upward. gave an entertaining &C
count of their experience. Among them.
Rev. James Erwin, formerly of Oswego,
stated that he began preaching in 1881.
on circuit covering sos miles, and that
for his first years labors he received the
then munificent sum of sixty dollars, Of
which four dollars was in cash. At the
present prices of necessities his salary
would scarcely fill his potato bin.