The Bossier banner., 1885-06-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,


The Seventh Day Adventists seem
to be gaining in strength in New York.
They have recently established missions
in New York, Buffalo. Albany and
Syracuse. saaE
Bismarck viii devote $4,000 an
nual interest on his national birthday
gift to establishing charitable founda-
tions for students in universities for the
study of philology.
During the year there have been
three hundred additions to the Baptist
Church from the. Cherokee Indians,
making the total membership 1900.
There are 5000 members of the denomi-
nation in the Indian Territory. --Sae
francisco CGU. .-~a -s-----e-.s-.
The Christian Adgecate says: ''A
reasonable estimate justifies the opinion
that more than 40,00oa persons have
professed conversion during thefpass
three months and joined, or are intend.
ing to join, the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Linear drawing has been intra
duced, by recent enactment, into all
the elementary schools of England. The
theory is that a knowledge of this kind
of drawing is useful in almost every
kind of trade or handicraft. Chicago
Current.
The $500 required to complete
the $25,000 for the Parsonage Building
Fund of the American Congregational
Union, for comfortable dwellings for
home missionaries on the Western
frontier, was contributed by the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church, Brook
lyn, after an appeal by Rev. DR.. Taylor,
of the Broadway Tabernacle. Y
Times 81 s@
AT acolored church on the outskirts
OF the city Sunday afternoon the preach
er notified the congregation that be
must have $5 before he would preach.
The hat was passed round, and when
returns were made $3.50 was in the
pot, whereupon the preacher said he
must have $3.50 more before he.woRld
preach. The hat was passed around
the second time and the IS made I'd,
when the congregation was treated to
one of the best efforts of the pastors
life.- Columbia rs. c. Register. gsE
The education OF the Chinese in
San Franciscois aproblem that presents
manifold difficulties. The board ofeduea-
ton of that city have provided school
room and a teacher, but it is found that
the Weather Cinnamon object to having
their youngsters associate with the off
spring of the rabble, and they are 0p-
posed also to the co-education of the
sexes. So far but one pupil is promised
for the new school, which entails,an
expense of $40 month for rent and $50
a month for the teacher. a5
President Eliot says that, without
special extravaganza or fast. living in
any way, Harvard student can easily
spend $500 year, and some pet rid OF
much more. "A calculation of the
average expense at twenty-five of the
principal colleges, according to the
statements of their respective catalogues
as to price of board. tuition, and gen
eral expenses, shows that it is a trifie
over $500. An average college eduea-
ton, then, costs $500 year, or $4,000.
Of course, the thing can be done for
less than this. Tuition may be re-
mitted by the gaining ofa scholarship.
and young man who is determinetl to
support himself may do so in whole or
in part by teaching and other work
Boston Jossr1tGl. 4 gf, s .n
Rev. Sam Jones, a Georgia evange.
list, has frequently been offered fifty
dollars day for his religions. services,
but declines to make any contract for
his preaching. II is told Of hina that
urging man to become q Christian, he
said: 'Don't try to take on zoo much
steam at first. heard an engineer ask
his fireman at the depot yesterday Il he
had enough steam not to reach Chatta-
nooga with, for the boiler couldn't have
held that mueh-not to reach Dalton.
for that much steam would have burst
the boiler-but if he had steam enough
to start with. Now you needn't Try to
put on enough steam to carry you
through to Heaven. but just enough to
start with. IN. Y Post