The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-12-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


hereafter be refused diploma at grad
uation unless they attend to their gym.
uasium duties during the course.
Fourteen of the three hundred and
eight graduates of the Woman's Medi-
cal College. at Philadelphia, are now
practieing medicine in India.
Mo, my dear teacher, there is no
salvation under heaven for you or
pupils, unless you work for the imme-
diate and everlasting good of each in-
dividual child. .-PTGct5caI Teacher.
"A leading Eastern religious paper
says that reading hymns from the pull
pit is rapidly going out of style. This
does not apply to this city, where
hymn reading is as popular as ever.-
Chicago Herald.
-One of our American missionaries
in Armenia had 9 lot of Moody and
Sankey hymn-books come through the
mails, but the eagle-eyed inspector of
the Turkish postoffice decided that
Hold the Fort was intended to en-
courage rebellion, and expurgated that
inoffensve lyric from every COPY
Christian Union.
Some time since a Miss Caldwell,
devoted Catholic, left $500, 600 to assist
in founding great Catholic university
in this country. This sum has been in
creased to about $4,000. 900, and it has
been decided to locate the university in
Washington City, the $4,000, 900 to be
used in the purchase of site and the
erection of the buildings; then it is .ex-
pected to raise at least 81, 900, 900 more
by way of endowment. Y. Tribune.
The Catholic ladies of Washington
have tabernacle society,"" the object
of which is to aid poor and needy mis-.
sion churches throughout the United
States with the necessary altar vest
ments and linens for the decent cele-
bration of the divine mysteries. They
meet at the Carroll Institute every day
of the week except Saturday and Sum
day to labor in their pious work
Washington Star.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting
of the Society for the Increase of the
Ministry was held recently at the office Of
the society. at Hartford. Conn. The total
receipts of the year have been nearly
$4,000 Fifty-fve scholars, from twen-
ty-four dioceses and four missionary iur-
isdictions. have been added during the
year The president for the ensuing
year is the Right Rev. John Williams,
d. d. IL. D., OF Connecticut. Brook
Ign Eagle.
An American traveller in Europe
fancied he could make people under
stand him by speaking with loud.
clear and slow pronunciation, forget
ting for the moment that his words had
no meaning whatever to his listeners
Similar is the blunder of the teacher
who hopes, by the mere urgency of his
manner. and by his clear use of words
familiar to himself. to carry his ideas
into the very center of the pupils un-
derstanding, without any reference to
that pupils previous knowledge of the
subject. Pilgrim Teacher.
We met at public service in one
of our churches, few evenings since,
Congregational minister, of the latter
day dispensation, who was bold to claim
that he had as good right to preach
the propositions of Universalism as our
selves. We presume there are not
many who would think of asserting
such a claim; but to all who would we
say: .'We rejoice in whatever way the
truth gets proclaimed, and will rejoice.
But it seems to us meet, right and
proper that ship which carries Uni
versalist freight should fly the Univers-
alist flag. - Christian Leader.