The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-09-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Spain. with school population Of
2.606, 265. has %, III elementary schools,
instructing 1,410, 476 pupils.
Three students of Canadian coll
lege rescued two school-ma' ans from
watery graves. Canada can now, of
course, expect q double wedding. and
the suicide of the student who gets left.
The Rev. w. McCann, Moderator Of
the English Presbyterian Synod, abiding
to the question of Christian economies,
recently remarked that England spent
fl27, 000, 900 in drink. and only E2,000,-
600 ON missions.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of Ireland, after . long
and able debate on instrumental music,
voted against liberty to adopt it as an
accompaniment of public worship by
majority vote of $50 against 345. The
majority of the ministers voted for. and
the majority Of the elders against, liberty
to use organs and other instruments.
! The Christian Register, of Boston,
says: "ln one Of the Episcopal churches
of Providence on q certain Sunday the
preacher, a stranger, defined the soul as
the non-atomic center of psychic force
and throughout his discourse, when al
luding to the soul, used the phrase.
Fancy the improvement on the old read
ing, What is man advantaged If he
gain the whole world and lose his own
non-atomic center of psychic force?''
The Fourth Presbyterian church Of
Chicago, Rev. Herrick johnson, pastor,
as appeared from his sermon June IA,
the second anniversary OF his settlement
over it, has gained IS members within
the year, Is of them on confession of
fAth. The church, which now has 437
members, gave $50, 542 during the year,
$18,032 of which was used for salaries
and other expenses, and $18,6l0 TO be-
nevolent causes. Besides this, $3, 000or
$1,000 have been given by individual
members of the church to colleges, and
C. H. Mccormick has given 5000 to
the Theological Seminary in that city.
Last year the church contributed $29, 1856.
The son of Barrie, Ont, school
inspector distracted from an express
package addressed to his father the list
OF questions to be asked at the public
school examinations, and made copy
thereof. Then, in partnership with an
other lad bearing the suggestive name
of Mainprize, he negotiated with the
scholars who were to undergo school ex-
animation, and by selling copies of the
list under promise of secrecy, rcaped
rich reward. The secret leaked out, the
perpetrators of the deed fed for parts
unknown, and the students who were to
have been asked the aforesaid questions
were admitted to examination only upon
oath that they knew nothing about the
fraud. Chicago Herald.
The Telugu native preachers, says
the Rev. S. f. Burdett, of the American
Baptist Society, are born orators. Their
sermons are modelled after those of the
missionaries. with more OF the Socratic
method. The preacher often makes his
point more effective by asking question
to which the people give a ringing re-
spouse. Sometimes he will address
some person in the congregation-gen
orally a preacher-who will repiy---and
dialogue will be carried on to which
the congregation will listen with great
attention. Illustration and parable are
much used. and also pantomime, which
sometimes becomes ludicrous.