The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-07-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Madras has gradu-
ated 800 persons, none of whom are
Christians.
The Jcsuits have recently purchased
the villa in the Island of Elba which
was occupied by Napoleon after his alb
dication, in 1914. 1t is to be converted
into college. tlfx
During the year 1884 there were
pa new Lutheran churches erected in
the United States, divided in language
as follows: German, 1873; English, SO;
Swedish, %; Norwegian, IA Norwegian
Danish, z; Danish, 2; Finnish, L; Slow
akian, 1.
1.-THE City of Churches, as Brook
lyn has been styled for many years, APP
pears not to be correspondingly city
of church-goers, as one of her ministers
finds upon investigation that there are
$4,000 people there who never 60 to
church. Boston Transcript.
/ Wedding fees constitute an impor-
tant item in the revenues of the popular
ministers of New, York and Philadel-
phia. their. annual receipts sometimes
reaching $4,000. The fees vary from
$40 to $500. The average of one min.
lister last year was $50.
An eccentric Perthshire Scotchman,
all his life a member of the Free Kirk,
has left his entire fortune-about
$780, 900 in our money-for the building
and endowment of a Wesleyan chapel
in village where. so far as is known,
there are no Wesleyan inhabitants.
"A Lowell man whipped out his
memorandum book in church the other
Sunday and took down this remarkable
thanksgiving from the lips of his scien-
tific pastor: 1--WE Thank Thee. o Lord,
that we are permitted to unwind the
mighty coil of material circumstances,
and gaze into the everlasting abysses
where flaming comets roll. "-LoUeU
Citizen.
Pastor Dickinson, of Norwich,
Conn.,, was accused of having said in
PRAYER meeting that the spirit of the
late U. S. Gardner had appeared to him.
What he did say was that brother of
Gardner. who had spoken in the meet
ing, brought the dead man so wildly to
his memory that he could almost see him
standing by his side. His description
was so striking that the hearers con-
strued it literally.-M Y. Sun.
The new head-master of Eton pro-
poses to return to the old system of adj
hitting boys of eight or nine years of
age, it being the latter usage to admit
only those of twelve or thirteen. 1t is
urged that the boys are at the school
too short time to get the full benefit
of its discipline, and, as they cannot be
kept till they are older, they should be
gathered in when they are younger.
Donald G.. Mitchell. better known
as TX Marvel, is said to be much
pleased with the Professorship of bellies
lettres, which he has held for year
past at Yale College. The students re-
gard him as an amiable and delightful
instructor, and many of them have read
his s'Dream-Life" and "Reveries of a
Bachelor" with an interest approaching
enthusiasm. He studied law forty
years ago, but never practiced, and
afterwards attempted daily journalism
but did not find it to his liking.
Rev. DIR. Shedd. in letter to the
New York Observer, insists that faith in
eternal torment makes men tranquil
and cautious, but never throws "a sound
| orthodox man into CONSERVATION OF
makes him lose his head" On the con-
trary, he says: ''Hell is like any other
danger. To be forewarned is to be
forearmed. In order to escape danger
one must believe in it. Disbelief of it is
sure destruction. Speaking generally,
all who acknowledge hell and fear it,
will escape it; and all who deny he'll
and ridicule it. will fall into it.