The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-07-05
. SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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..,.J Infant baptism increased in the is
Southefn Methodist Epseopal9 Church TO-
lfr0n IA 739 in 1866 to 27,205, in 1888,
81 The New York Legislature, before i NJ
its adjournment, passed bill teratire espit
and pension school teachers . over -
seventy years of age na9ndEq9d posAA
...s--Said "a student lofraae college to 7a99ais
friend who was attending a. rival in 49,,
stitutioii: IfYotfr college never turns siiiH
out geutleaen;;' y, NO, twas the reply. Ia
our, college allows gentlemen to go
right on and 'graduate. y - BaItImsyc yc1aaea
, A4perlea,s. I's .nefth4sE9ab ed d3iE gr-eA
.4Workmen engaged in painting
Trinity Church in NewpofE r. I.,afes fisug
gently took down the Yane which was, s,,a
placed on the .spire in Queen Anne's
J reignsIlH wiaS5six fest four Ainchesd III
across and four feet high gandF sur .ao.g
mounted BY crown, which is believed
to be the largest Eestigeiof fegabrdle inegoq
america da h. M, 1a4a S4aatid,; .isidw
Episcopal Conference heldreeently bheaH
Rev. DIR, Fox, making a report for the. = l.,
Ffeedmen's S Aid Society, denounced the ~
Introduction of the colori line in the tadt
churches and schools ofsthe South, and 80
protested against sendiiig contributions AAS'
from the G0hfarence foothose EWhdsIHes
Would separate the NBes NbBites from from the sdi
According to- the Baptist Yearbook
for 1883, the number of baptisms last -.
year was 1850, a gam of Is, 10 upon 40
1881. 1.-The membership was inereased odw
over all losses by 58,720, and carried .
up to 1894, 742. The contributions for SAsat
congregational and Tl,eaeyolent purog
poses amounted in 1882. to. ,$5, 49,
s396.07, an increase Of 96f6, 405! 20 over Fozq
the previous yeaTs8a huazf adf 81 bs{aiw
New Hampshire paper says. that
the country district scif5oi'in tliat State bGa
is far ,fnom being what itIWas a agenera-neor
'tfon ago. Benches which were crowded
then are nearly empty iiow, and in the 9TsR
plade OF merry groups Of children sc8t5aataf
tered along the roadway, here and
there d solitary seh6iisf takes fsi5 mis- zs1o
lonely walk toscheol, Il The towns very1ye.,f
generally make liberal provision for
their schools, but they have not tho ed
children to send, Frei saouer gsFss. a.
President Eliot, of Harvard, thinks
itN-ould be great Improvements III the G9al
relation between minister sand e0ngre-
gationss If the minister were, franklyagl
allowed sometimes to comment upon a
fresh book instead OF pfeaehihg a ser3afSaa
mon, sometmssttto read other menis seraH
sermons instead of his own. and, in
general, 70 direct his heafers TO good -sI9
reading and bring then to know some-y pd.
thing of the minds and works of the
leaders of the race, living and deada' attaai
II AT the;annnalmeeting Of the Salys-,1 .,ns
ton Army in London Gen. Booth stated
that the army had now 4oI corps, lWithdi 10
angincome derived from them of ,EI21,-e, 80.
000.i The rental of barracks entailed
anexpenditufeiof Ell, 900 ayear, and the roi4
army had property of itsown now worth 49,
9150,000, upon which there was debt 90"
of f5ag000, ~ About, e 10000 was con-5alOy
tributed during the dav. Among those =.
who took part in the meeting was a -
Yorkshirenwomanei ghty .four yHaFs6ld, 193E
who said she. had been in prison $50
times for drunkenness. A1AF '@'ef"