The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Since its organization the National
Academy of Sciences has had but three
Observation-Disclosures Bache, Henry,
and William b. Rogers The Office Is
for life.-N. Y. Post.
"A schoolmaster of Wayne County.
Pennsylvania, in attempting to chastiso
a girl. one Of his pupils, was set upon by
the boys of the school, who literally
stripped him. Y. Herald.
MIR. William H. Vanderbilt recently
gave his check for 81. 900 to pay off the
debt of Grace Church, Lexington, Va,
which was erected in memory of Gen.
Robert E. Lce.-N Y Herald.
Harvard College proper has been
living beyond its income for four years
to the average amount of $12, 500 year.
The deficit for 1830-8l, amounting to
$S4, 400. 10, is the largest the College has
ever incurred. -New HaUen Register.
"A Methodist minister the other day
said he prayed to be saved from the
preacher who never fails in the pulpit.
He had colleague of that kind once; he
never had bad time and the congrega-
ton never had good one.
in the PARKWAY Synod of Otago, in
New Zealand, the lowest salary among
the Presbyterian ministers is over 81 900
the Sustcntation Fund giving that div
idend, and the churches often raising
the salary much above that sum.
Friends of Robert College, says the
Boston Advertiser, will be glad to learn
that the New York Court of Appeals has
sustained the will of Mr.. G. X. Robert,
the founder Of the college, under which
the institution will receive 800, 900 for
the general endowment fund.
Bishop Halsey said to the Confer
ence of the African Methodist Church:
1--WE have little respect for grammar,
but great respect for the gospel. To
voice, almost enough to raise the dead.
We sing loud and shout, but get true re-
ligion. IN. Y. Saa.
The Congregational "Year-B Book"
for 1882 was recently issued. The num-
Der of churches reported is 1904; pas
tors, 1858 (only 877 installed); total
Congregational ministers, 3,713; church
members, 381, 697 (males, 128, 065; fe-
males, PSI. 822); additions by confession,
1871; by letter, II, 235; total, 22,546;
lost by death, 1864; by dismission.
9,454; by discipline, 1850; total, IL, 178;
net loss in membership, 1885. Total
benevolent contributions, 81, 227, 108, an
increase of 1914, 1886.
The esteem in which DIR. John
Brown was held by his countrymen may
be conjectured from the fact that seven
years ago, when his health began to fail.
sum Of more than $50, 900 was collect
ed for him without publicity. The au-
thor of "Rab and His Friends" knew
nothing of it until the amount, partly in
q check and partly in the shape Of an
annuity, was put into his hands, the list
of the contributors first having gone into
the fire. Chicago Tribune.
The American Bible Society is un-
dertaking the fourth general supply Of
the Holy Scripture throughout this
country. The first was in 1880, the
second in 1856, and the third in 1866.
The work now proposed is the largest
that has ever been attempted for the dis
tribution of the Bible in any land, and
the Society appeals for liberal contribu-
tons of money to pay for books, trans-
portation and distribution, SO that this
home supply may not in the least cripple
its growing foreign service.-N Z. En-.
aniner.