The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-07-02
SCHOOL AND cHuRcH. /.

The Congregational Academy at
Salt Lake City, Utah, has six teachers
and 24O pupils, a large proportions Of
whom come from Mormon homes. a-.
Washington is a remarkably re-
Iigious city. Statistics show 1S0 rs
churches, with 49,351 members. OF esa
this total membership, however, about
q, 900 are in the colored churches, aS
A returning missionary writessto
church paper: eve suffer. so much in
the hot season that we are fully CON
vinced that it is the win Of the Lord W.
that we should return to America be- -
fore the hottest Indian weather is upon
US again. 81 az 6ssgw @EE& nws
He was a graduate in natures
university Nature is wiser than the
schoolmaster;s she educates. but she 9
never Grams Her scholars do not GO
up to take their degrees; their degrees
come to them. -JeGgs IssqelOa0. sw
I'm 1877 there were twenty-three "a
Danish-Norwegian Baptist churches in
eight Western States. with 1.350 menaz
bers seventeen ordained minister's and
twelve meeting houses. Now there are
thirty-nine churches, thirty-fours mins
listers and twenty-seven meeting houses.
~ Y. Examiner Ht -
mitted to universities in Sweden, Nor -
way, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain -
and France. At ST Petersburg in
1882 ninety-nine young, women were
given degrees in the literary and histor.
ical department. and sixty,four in the
scientific department..
japanese educators are making an
effort to substitute Roman letters for
those now in use in Japan. IL would
probably require but little persuasion to
induce the people to adopt the English
language outright ifone may Judge from
the willingness with which theTshaYew
accepted other American and English
customs and methods Czrreae
~. The public hears from time to time
of discussion over the question OF
public worship at Harvard University
In point of fact, there are ct present
no regular Sunday services in the col
lege chapel. During the winter an oc-s -
casional discourse was given. Attend,
ance upon some church on Sunday is
no longer requisite, bat by recent de- sa
cision. compulsory attendance upon s,
morning prayers in the college chapel
is continued. IN Y. Suaa E a@ 81
AN ancient custom was obserYed
recently at a London church where, in.
dCc0FudnC0 WIN Inc Will OI I6t6El Dy-sstfs
monds, which dates SO far back as the
year 1886. sixty of the younger boys Of
Christ's Hospital attended divine serv-
ices in the morning, and afterward re-
ceived a new penny and bag of rails
ms 1t was stated that this was the two rs
| hundred and ninety-frst celebration of vs
this quaint ceremony.
AT Portland, Me-, 'aclergyman who
manages a Gospel temperance mission
has organized a Gideon Band, which
is said to Introduce WagneFian effects
in the choruses sung during the seIvs3 ~.
ices, the idea on which the scheme is
founded being taken from Judges vii,
Is: ...sAnd he (Gideon) divided 800 s.av
men into three companies, and he put
a trumpet into every mans hand, with
empty pitchers anda]amps- within the
pitchers Boste9a Journal. eR
The famous .'Codex Argenteus, !"
the four gospels translated BY Bishop
Ulphilas. is preserved in the University
of Upsala. 1t is written. on 182 leaves
of parchment in letters Of silver on g
ground of faded purple. Its kept ins =
glass case and under lock and key II
| dates back to the second half OF the
| fourth century. and besides being oi
| value to thereligious. world. il gives the
| secular world all the knowledge Il nov
possesses of the early Gothiei thepareni
| of all the Germanic tongues. -
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