St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Baptist Church at Scotch
Plains. N. j., recently celebrated the
centennial of its founding.
St. Paul, Minn., at an expense OF
$3.50, 600.
"A Methodist missionary in India
reports the baptism of 453 persons
within fortnight. among the Tharus.
IN aboriginal tribe of the Gonds.
MIR. Spurgeon has received a
legacy for his orphanage of $4,000
from gentleman who recently died in
New Jersey, the first ever sent him
from this country.
All the Lutheran churches of the
South were consolidated into one at
the late General Synod or Council at
Roanoke. Va There are thirty thou
sand COMMITMENTS.
An American gentleman has OBJ
tanned permission to enter the depart
ment of ancient literature in the Inn
perial university of Japan in order to
study the history and language of the
country.
The Methodists in the West Indies
arc thClk CCnlcHhidi. Ii.
Coke, with three missionaries, landed
at st. Johns Antigua, December 25,
1776, and there was established the
first Wesleyan mission in the West
Indies.
DIR. Deems, the venerable pastor of
the Church of the Strangers, in New
York. has strong convictions upon the
subject of closed churches, and ex-
presses them very frankly. He keeps
his church open all the year round, and
always has congregation.
-.'My brethren" said pious rabbi.
1.-The preaching of the Torah TO some
people is like pouring water over
sponge; it soaks in and stays. To others
it is like the wind blowing through
chicken coop. My experience of this
Kehillah is that it contains more chicken
coops than sponges. ."-HebreU Stand
ard.
In an article published in the Nou-
velle Rerue French traveller declares
that there is scarcely village in Syria
without a Protestant church; more than
one may be found even in the gorges
Of Mount Hermon. At Beyrout there Is
n German hospital and an American
university. where the most practical
sciences are taught, especially that OF
medicine.
The stealing of two clocks from.
one of the Presbyterian churches in this
city was piece of cold -blooded cruelty.
The amount of comfort and encour-
agement some people derive from an
occasional glance at the clock during a
service is not to be put into figures.
unless one uses the Roman figures
usually seen on the dial.-Detroit Chris-
.tan Herald.
The Chief Inspector of Schools al
Taganrog. Russia. has issued an order
forbidding girls frequenting the gym
nasium and other scholastic establish
ments in this district from wearing
any kind of unbccoming fashionable
dress. stays, corsets, bustles. pads.
high-heeled boots. tall hats. ETC., and
the parents of the girls are said to be
very much pleased with this order.
The Church Army is an evangel.
istic agency of the Church of England,
and is modelled somewhat after the
pattern of the Salvation Army. In
some of the towns of England, but
particularly in London, south and east,
it has been doing excellent work. The
army has concluded to extend its oper-
ations to India, where the members
will adopt the native costume. 1t is
difficult to see what good can come
from the adoption of the native cos.
tune if they can not at the same time
adopt the native speech.