The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-05-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Bible is translated into thirty
Gwo African Languages. ineight'of which
the whole of the Scriptures are pub
lished.
Atlanta men are working up a
Southern Chautauqua, or central camp
meeting ground, for all the benevolent
institutions of the South.
Japan is thoroughly awake in the
matter of education. She has established
schools all through the country, and at
the University of Toxic there are now
200 students.
Good old Mrs. Barton, of New
Haven, has been for nearly fifty years
the teacher of large and important
Bible class. A few days ago her class
met to celebrate her eightieth birthday.
-Nes0 Haren Register.
The National Societies of the Bap-
fist denomination hold their anniversa-
ries in New York, May 24-31. These
societies are the Foreign Missionary
Union, the Home Mission Society and
the Publication Society.
Mrs. George Clinton Smith, Of
Springfield, H., has undertaken the
compilation of woman's hymn-book.
She asks that all women who have writ
ten hymns that have been published con-
fer with her.-Chicago Tribune.
Rev. DR.. Magoun, of Philadelphia.
told his New York brethren the other
day that he started in life as bricklayer,
and that when he laid down the trowel
and took up the clerical pen, he secured
the first brick he had ever laid, convert
ed it into an inkstand, and had used it
ever since.
The students of the University OF
Missouri disliked Professor Lowry and
asked for his removal. This request was
refused, as they gave no good reason
why it should be granted. Three hun
dred of them burned the Professor in
efiigy, and then marched round his res
idence singing Hang Tom Lowry on a
sour apple tree. ~ Chicago Herald.
Mr.. Baring-Gould represents the re-
ligious condition of Germany as not very
encouraging. He says that of the $780,
900 inhabitants of Hamburg only 5000
attend worship, and there are only five
parish churches. In Berlin there are
100000 Protestants, but only 1890 at
tend church on Sundays. The church
attendance in Darmstadt is only three
per cent. Throughout Germany only
fourteen out of one hundred persons at
tend any kind of religious service.
English missionaries have begun to
work in the peninsula of Corea-a land
from which almost all Europeans have
heretofore been jealously excluded. The
area of Corea is 10000 square miles, and
the population about 10000, 900 souls.
The language is quite unlike both Chi
nese and Japanese, and much difficulty
has been experienced in learning it.
Some progress has, however, been made
in this direction, and a translation of the
New Testament has been begun by a
Presbyterian missionary named Ross
Chicago Times
President Robinson, of Brown Uni.
versity, is this year delivering the course
of Yale lectures ON preaching. He
states that the proportion of people who
attend church is diminishing. For this
he gives number of reasons, some of
which are very diverse in character.
Among the reasons are skepticism.
cheap literature, and the practice of
preaching old sermons. He also men,
tons the willingness of too many
churches to exist on supplies of strange
clergymen from Sunday to Sunday, in.
stead of securing the services of aregu-
lar pastor. To these he adds the un-
easiness of the present generation and
the lack of desire of hearing the steady
preaching of an old-fashioned gospel
Chicago Herald.