The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-25
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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3 --Of the 12o. 100000 women and girls,
in India not more than one in every
1,2oo has yetbe placed under any kind 3 1Hssfa
of Christian M : influence. - q isslsaas n.8at
Mr.. j. f, Goucher, of Baltimore has
offered to the Methodist Missionary Com ~. kFz#R
mitSee to found fiftysehools in India I'M m s7t.s-
which the vernacular language shall be
taught. 90s asiasg sflJ sa5
The Journal de Rome SAYS that Bish1 ta gg5
op Spalding visit to Rome is connected s.+f.s s4
with plan for the establishment of q
Roman Catholic University at Chicago, O. 59lF9
on the model of that at L0nvain, where ssa yt.r
he took theological degree. The Lon
dortaTabtet thinks this more than Hkely.sRf f
lin frontier town in Texas the other san (taa
Sunday minister preached from the .... s.s,y
text. "Remember the Sabbath day to -'N
keep it holy.na The congregation, hoNf-s ssss asas
ever, heard very little of the, discourse s,, -.
because of the racket made by carpen- SIS
tiers. at work in new buildings on both 88l sa8
s'0ss o. the ontron,so5. 7 % iaI VI o. ssab ss8
"A munifcent English Congregation,
alist, whose name IS withheld, has offered as9ssS
to give $4,000 year for five years ons8e,ggFs9se
condition that others will give $4,000
year for the same time for Congrega- sf&&
tional church extensions in London and sfs sF{sg
its neighborhOod. As $4,000 was i'm
mediately pledged at the meeting where i,i a3t 0f
the proposal was announced, it would fesfa an tf
look as if the thing is substantially set
tied. - '*i>f3s5SSss3 ffssss7's''al'l g 1ssES!9
$ 1.-The father of DR.. b. M. Palrher,sof q sad -
New Orleans died recently at the age of r:ay 4s.l
ninety four. He entered the ministry
when thirtylsix, and was fifty -eightyeafs ots3ys
Q minister, thirty-four IN one church,
thirteen IN another, two and a-half with
a third and eight as a kind of patriarch 4t -1as8
OF the church at large. For more than ,.,s.,s,
thirty years he preached every Sabbath
morning, rode sixteen miles and al 45&l
preached to slaves, catechised children. B, -.
and looked after church discipline then -
rode back sixteen miles and preached in lasT57S
the eveniRg. His son Is now one Of the sF-,.,
ablest preachers in the South.
The School superintendent of fndi-" fS3nssa4
ana complains 0f the ineompetsncy of s5 hsta
the public school teachers and declares
that the reason why so many of them ~ sasf&
are inexperienced and poorly prepared, hgga .Yf8h
are first, that the compensation is too
small; second that the employment Ii ASsAasiIa f3
only for one yearYthird that good teaef4aaa SAL Ia
eis are compelled to make too frequent
changes; fourth, that the length of the = ssi~ ~
school term, except lin cities and towns, Bssife5s
is too short to induce teachers to remain
in the profession. The Superintendent 3siiRsa
adds that good teacher is nesKer paidsss.ae sas.
enough and poor one is usually paid -
too much t4s@ ga ke S9si4
--YoltAire,' 100 years ago, sasd that 7o9g 9dg
Before the beginning of the nineteenth gsf# ynr.
century Christianity will have disap-
peared from the earth. In 1850, the y 5ss}s51
date appointed for the determination OF 10, ys.f
Christianity. there were "a 200, 900 En-
glish speaking people, andaof these Il, SIS ssS8M
600, 600 were Protestants, 800 900 Ro-.fap. .4
n1anists and 100000 professed no re-
ligious belief HI 1881 there were 59,-esiio aas
100000 Protestantss Is 500, 600 Roman@o sl,--e.
lists and 18500,000 non-relgious among
the English speaking people, --GOspsI '9g efs5
IN aH Lands s So as9E53g1 1ga Il n Sra 3qsasr