The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-11-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Nineteen thousand persons, incluo-
ing six hundred avowed infideis, were
converted within eight years by Major
Penn, the Texas evangelist. = Chicago
Times.
The twenty-five bells just received
from Belgium for Holy Trinity Church,
Philadelphia, are described as the finest
ever sent to this country. The heaviest
weighs a ton and half.-Rhiladetphia
Record.
The Baptist Cleaner tells of q Ken
lucky preacher who has received rail-
road pass to travel on half-fare on con-
dition that he has no other occupation
but preaching, and whose conscience
under these circumstances will not al
low him to cut wood or draw water for
his wife!
-Rey. Robert Collyer is one of the
American preachers who have occupied
London pulpits this summer. Mr..
Collyer, who is al American by adop-
ton, and was blacksmith in his ma
tive England, preached also in Ilkley
parish this summer in q church, the
gates of which are proudly pointed out
as the work of his own hands when he
was employed in the forge Chicago
Inter- Ocean. -
The London Lancet cautions parents
against overworking their children, and
declares that no growing child should
be kept longer than three-quarters
of an hour at any one task. If this adj
vice is good for anything, it win apply
to the school-room as well as to the
workshop. Too much continuous study
| is as injurious to the child as too
protracted physical exertion.-Chscago
Journal
The Faith Cure Convention at Old
Orchard, Me-, has closed. About 230
persons attended the convention. The
most striking cures in answer to pray.
ers during the recent session are alleged
| to have occurred in the case OF Miss
Gibbs, of Oshawa, Canada, whose cere-
bro-spinal meningitis of six years stand
ing was suddenly cured, and in the case
of Miss Jennie G. Clark. of Berwick,
Me-, whom heart disease scarcely al
lowed to reach the convention.-B0sto''
Transcript.
The United States Bureau of Edu-
cation publishes the results of an in
auiry into the effects of co-educatiou Of
the sexes in $40 cities and large towns.
In 321 of these there is c0-educatiOn
throughout the public school course, in
II through part of the course, and in
the sexes are separated entirely. The
pamphlet observes that ''both the gen
eral instruction of girls and the com
mon employment of women as public
school teachers depend, to q very grea1
degree, on the prevalence of co-educa
ton, and that a general discontinuanct
of it would entail either much increased
expense for additional buildings AND
teachers, or withdrawal Of educa
tional privileges from the future womer
and mothers of the Nation. IN y
Sun.
| The scheme for introducing picture'
into elementary schools in England ha
taken practical shape; and an Art to
School Association has been f0rmet
with Mr.. Ruskin as President, and Mr.
Mundella and the Chairman of tn
London School Board among the Vice
Presidents. Besides the introduction o
| pictures into schools, the association
proposes, so far as may be practicable
|. TO undertake oral instruction in tn
, National Gallery and elsewhere. An
it is hoped soon to open an exhibition
} of number of examples, SO as to sho,
school teachers what the association
able to offer them.