St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A merchant OF Lubbock has be-
queathed to the University of jena the
sum of 100000 marks TO found Oar.
win chair.
There are 40.430 Methodists in
Kansas. Nearly one-fourth of the en-
tire population of that State are mem-
bers of some Christian church.-Chris.
tian Union.
The census Of 1881 showed that
there were in Ireland 1851, 1888 Roman
Catholics. 635.670 Episcopalians, 49,.
503 Presbyterians, Al, 1859 Methodists.
Bismarck, with his eye fixed on
prospective German colonies in the
East. is about to found in Berlin a
school for the teaching Of living Ori.
entail languages.
Lord Randolph Churchill il author
ity for the statement that the Protest
ant religion has existed in Ireland for
six centuries, antedating the Reforma-
ton by almost three hundred years.
A decision has been filed at Ithaca,
N. Y. decreeing that the legacies OF
Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske to Cornell
University are valid. and directing the
executor to paw the balance of Mrs.
Fiske's estate to the university as re-
siduary legatee. BY this decision Cor
nell University will receive about
81, SOC, 900.
Rev. E. P. Hammond has been
holding meetings for the last six
months in London. laboring in az
many as fourteen different localities
All denominations have united In the
work, ministers and others heartily CO.
operating in the services. Many
Church Of England people have en-.
gagged with Mr.. Hammond in revival
meetings, even some OF the high
churchmen.
MFR. Wilcox" says the Congrego-
tionalist, .writes from Western Africa
a graphic account of the giving up by
natives of their ornaments for the sake
of Christ. After they had surrendered
tobacco and beer, the missionaries
asked who was willing to give up the
ornaments of brass and iron on their
wrists, ankles and necks. ALI at once
began to strip them off. Some were
so grown into the bodies of the wear
ers that they had to be cut with instru.
! ments. Excepting the girls, not one
left the place wearing an ornament. ="
The Christian Union thinks .'it is
certain that to-day the demand is not
half so much for finely educated schol-
ars preaching to cultivated congrega-
tons as it is for men who have come
up from the people without having
come away from them, who know their
lives and homes and thoughts and
hearts, and who can speak to them OF
their own lives and in their own Ian
guage. The church is tolerably well
equipped with preachers in silk gowns;
what it most needs to-day is more shirt
sleeve preachers.
A pastor of one of the Southern
Illinois churches is authority for the
following: His superintendent often
visits colored Sunday school in the
city to advise and assist them in their
work A recent Sabbath afternoon he
spoke to them of the Congo mission
and endeavored to rouse their interest
in its behalf. His success was phenom.
enal. A short time afterward one OF
his auditors met him, when the follow
ing ensued: "Mr. -. Use been tinkin'
bout dat Conger mishun, and Use go.
in dar. 1 wrote John A. Logan to git
me pass dar." Ibid you get it?''
questioned the superintendent. He
said no D pervishun had been made. but
when it was he would send me. e.'-Cht
cago Standard.